> Just a thought, have you considered just replacing the internal wireless > card? As far as I can tell, it's a regular Mini-PCI-E card and should be > accessible under a flap on the bottom of the laptop. Something like an Intel > 7260 should work nicely. 802.11a/b/g/n/ac plus Bluetooth 4.0 and it should > work well with the iwlwifi driver.
I can't seem to find any info about whether or not the 7260 card is able to use *simultaneously* the 2.4GHz and the 5GHz bands (e.g. when setup as access point). Stefan