My employer bought me a new laptop. All bells and whistles are present. A hefty processor, a decent amount of memory. I am very very satisfied.

But….network connections are dropped from time to time. When working with ssh/telnet is major part of the day, this becomes a major annoyance.

I asked by friend McGoogle. He found a number of threads where people wonder why a Intel Wifi killer card is used. On my old Dell Latitude 7490 the wifi card can be replaced for a newer model when the demand arises.

Dell XPS 15 9530 model 2023 is a different beast. Some product developer didn’t listen to the questions/plea/comments of their customer to dump the Wifi Killer. And secondly the wifi card (AX211D2W) isn’t a M 2 card. It is more or less chip soldered on the mainboard.

I thought the use cases for solder-on wifi card were for prototyping/iot/proprietary hardware. Not for a generic laptop. So when you are looking for a new laptop, scrutinize the specification sheet. Whenever wifi 6 is outdated, so is this laptop. No way you can upgrade your wifi. Unless you master your kung-fu soldering skills…