SilverStone Technology PCIe WiFi/Bluetooth Adapter With Two Dual Band MIMO Antenna (Requires Additional WiFi / Bluetooth Module) ECWA2-LITE Review

I was hoping for a slightly stronger signal by replacing the stock antennas on my Linksys EA 6900 router. Using the RE7000 expander's built-in diagnostics, no signal improvement was measured at the expander despite the large signal improvement at the larger size . So for me it was of no benefit. I'm not sure under what conditions this would happen or if the active electronics would somehow need to detect a different antenna, but at least the Linksys EA6900 either already had better antennas or…

I had some decent mini-PCIE wireless bluetooth combos from dead laptops lying around, so I decided to try one of these adapters. Everything works as expected. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth have a better signal than I got with the laptop the card came from. It's just a problem that I need to connect USB when the laptop can work with both WiFi and BT via mini PCIE interface. I was expecting one PCIE to convert to the other with little change, but I don't think it is.

I bought this for the PS4 controller I use on my PC. USB dongles just don't cut it, they lag too often. Tested by observing the ping, the antennas transmit the Bluetooth signal as expected. As a wireless card, it performs better than my dedicated N wireless card that I got a long time ago. But it could also just be an AC chipset. LAN makes WLAN sad anyway, which is why I still use LAN.