Asus U46E-BAL5 WLAN Upgrade

Updating the Asus U46E-BAL5 miniPCIe WLAN card was more straightfoward, but the actual process of physically replacing the WLAN card is DIFFICULT. The miniPCIe slot is on the top side of the Asus U36E-BAL5 under the top case (keyboard) and to get to it, you have to remove ALL the screws from the underside.

Asus K55A WLAN Upgrade

Upgrading the Asus K55A notebook computer WLAN was a frustrating process. I went through 3 different miniPCIe WLAN cards before finally settling on the Intel 7260.HMWWB.R 802.11ac/n/b/g + Bluetooth 4.0 here from embeddedworks.net. Something to note is that the Asus Wireless Switch (Wireless Console3) Utility DOES NOT and will not display the bluetooth icon regardless of whether or not a working bluetooth adapter is installed in the notebook computer.