Encompass was worthless. They only provide exactly the same hardware as ships with the Sony Laptop originally. So far the only thing I have found is Sony wants to control things even more than Apple.
HEY GIVE US USERS A BREAK!! We just want to access the 5ghz WiFi range since the 2.4 does not work well in all locations.
The advice we have all been given is USELESS.
I have 4 laptops and the 4 network cards I have purchased EACH work in the other 3 and NONE work in the Sony, including those that CLAIM to work with Sony. What gives? Is there a white list in the BIOS? The cards all claim to be working properly, but cannot be turned on in the Sony Vaio.
I purchased an external version of the AC card, and it works fine!!
I would rather have the built in working, but this shows it is an artifical (and ******) restriction placed by SONY.
If anyone has a REAL IDEA or a place I can buy a BIOS for the