wifi 6 adapter reliability

[KD5RKO]

I'm using an older HP Probook 440 G1 laptop with a mini PCI adapter for wifi. SInce I upgraded my home network to wifi 6, I decided to upgrade my wifi card to one that will handle 6. I'm on my second card now. The first one died after a week of normal use. My second one works great when it's working. It then loses connection and I have to reset the iwlwifi module using [code} sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi && sudo modprobe iwlwifi [/code] or turning wifi off and then back on again. Sometimes I have to reboot completely.

The card I have currently is this one - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B9S961MJ
and it shows up as
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz (rev 1a)

Do any of you have any experience with better cards that work reliably and do wifi 6? Or should just give up and go back the the lower speed card that is rock solid?

I did make sure that power management on the device is turned off if that makes any difference.

[KD5RKO]

Here are the results of my system info using inxi -Fxzd
For now I decided to go back to my previous Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83) adapter because even if it's slower - it is at least stable.
I would really like to find a wiifi 6 solution that works so I can fully utilize my network speed.

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andrew@ProBook-440-G1:~$ inxi -Fxzd 
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-53-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 440 G1
    v: A3009DD10303 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1944 v: KBC Version 12.F4
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Hewlett-Packard v: L74 Ver. 01.50
    date: 02/18/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 35.2/35.2 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.1 min: 11.1 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: Full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-4200M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 798 high: 799 min/max: 800/3100 cores: 1: 798 2: 799
    3: 798 4: 798 bogomips: 19954
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP HD Webcam type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-7:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-53-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-12:4
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.46 TiB used: 1.31 TiB (89.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: ASTC size: 116.51 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT480BX500SSD1 size: 447.13 GiB
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 899.97 GiB used: 818.7 GiB (91.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 489 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.63 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 0.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 257 Uptime: 2h 22m Memory: 15.08 GiB used: 2.72 GiB (18.0%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 Packages: 2705 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13