I have opened old superhub 1 netgear vmdg480 . Suprisely there was a mini pci express wireless card inside. Removed it and put it in my laptop. It is a Dell Wireless 1520 wireless-N wlan mini card. Windows 10 recognised it automatically and it was ready to use. However I have donwloaded the dell driver and updated the driver manually from device manager (the installer of the dell driver doesn't work on windows 10).
It works perfectly. Also there was two PCB antennas in the router as well. I'm going to put them in my laptop later and try if they any better than stock antennas. But the card works with old antennas as well. But I'm not sure they might be 5ghz antennas so worth to try. So dont throw them away.
Upgrade your old wifi card for free.
