Replacing on PCI-e mini laptop wireless with a different brand

[personalt]

My brother has a Asus K601 laptop with a atheros - Azure AR5B95 wireless card.

He has had a terrible time with it since he bought the laptop 2 years ago. Wireless speeds are horrible. If you google this card's model number you find lots of people with issues. We tried bios driver updates and a few differnt drivers.

My quesiton is.. Can I replace this card with a differnt brand of card? Looking at the specs on amazon and elsewhere it looks like a half mini PCI-e card
http/www.amazon.com/Atheros-AR5B95-AR9285-802-11B-PCI-E/dp/B005HMZ8B2

Since there are tons of bad reviews all over the place my plan was to replace it with an intel model
http/www.amazon.com/Intel-802-11n-draft-Wi-Fi-Adapter/dp/B0036BJN12/ref=pd_cp_pc_1

Is there any reason this wouldnt work?

 

[alvine]

it should work as it uses the same interface, the antenna clips look slightly different

 

[personalt]

are the antenna ports fairly standard?

 

[weaselman]

Yes they are all standard. Just make sure you connect the black and white wires the right way around when you fit the new card in.

 

[alvine]

i dont know as i have never messed with replacing mini pcie wireless cards, the clips are almost the same..maybe one picture is slightly smaller, its hard to tell but i would gamble and buy that card for $10