On 23/05/2014 12:31, Bianca Gibson wrote:
> - reliable under fedora
> - compact enough I can leave it in at all times, including while transporting 
> the laptop
> - decent range. My temporary borrowed USB wifi is pretty slow in the corner 
> of the office.

...pick one.  ;-)

But seriously, if I were you, I would spend more time on sorting out why 
the Wi-Fi is flaky.  Might be that it's missing a proprietary firmware 
blob or something?

The other thing is, most PCs have their internal Wi-Fi in the form of a 
mini-PCIe card hidden under a panel similar to (if not the same as) the 
one you would use to replace the RAM.

This means the Wi-Fi card is often replaceable.  I have a one or two 
mini-PCIe Wi-Fi cards lying around that I salvaged from otherwise broken 
PCs that work well in Linux.  There are far too many cards that work 
under Linux to list them all, but you may be able to obtain a card or 
smashed up laptop off eBay that you can salvage a card from.

Down the rabbit hole you go...

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