[tuetuopay]

Have you tried them further than "I don't trust MediaTek"?

I've had sequentially an Intel and an AMD ThinkPad for work (I killed the first one). Turns out, the wifi is much much better on the AMD one with the MediaTek chipset than on the Intel one with the Intel chipset. On the latter, I had very frequent disconnects from the network (severals per hour) along with atrocious latency even on 5GHz. And by atrocious latency, I mean atrocious as in "it is more than noticeable when using ssh". The current one has been rock solid for the past two or three years.

So yeah, I guess it really depends. The specific chipset I have is a MT7921 and I'm running Linux, YMMV. And it also may depend on the laptop itself.

[RedShift1]

The laptops run Windows. It's not about trust, they just don't work well. They take a long time to connect, particularly after returning from sleep. Many times I have to disconnect and reconnect manually after returning from sleep. I replace them with Intel Wi-Fi ones and it just works. I'd really rather just replace them than face user complaints.

[tuetuopay]

Urgh. Kudos to you, that’s no easy task. And this might explain a lot, I’ve never liked the WiFi experience in windows. I find Linux with IWD to be stable as hell