Upgrade Wifi Card in my Satellite Laptop Help.

So our cable/Internet guy come out to our house to fix the internet, when he was done he did a test on all the computers, all were fine accept this laptop. The wifi speed is only pulling in half of what all the others are, even if we hold it directly next to the router.
I want to upgrade the wifi card to something that can take more advantage of our high speed interent, but i have little experience with laptops. I have been building and repairing my families desktop PCs for years, so i do have some experience in this area though.
i did some reading on how to phisically replace the card, so i can probably handle that pretty well, my real problem is finding out what cards are compatable. I can't find any detailed enough specs to find this information, such as, does the wifi card in this laptop use a PCIE slot or something else? Are there different size cards i need ti look out for, and i read something about BIOS white liisting.
One article said some manufatcurers black/witelist some hardware, and i was told to check and see if i can find if this is so, and if i can find the list. I would apreciate any help with thiis issue, thanks.
Anyways, my laptop version is, Satellite Toshiba C875D-S7331

I would love to see that list also I replaced my card with an azurewave broadcom card mod BCM94352HMB I can now connect at 866 mbps on AC but have found no way to get bluetooth to work the different driver installs tell me to turn on the Bluetooth I could not find anything in the bios to enable. The card is a 802.11/ac/867Mbps WLAN+BT4.0 half mini PCI-E.
computer is a S855-S5254....Both win10TP and 8.1 installed the proper broadcom driver automatically but I have not figured out the BT yet. This card picks up wifi better than the realtek that was original. I have read a lot of complaints on the intel cards so I went this way.

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