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Review on ๐Ÿ“ถ High-Speed EDUP PCIe WiFi 6 Card with Bluetooth 5.1: AX3000 Mbps AX200 Dual Band for Desktop Windows 10 64-bit by Jonathan Jensen

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Great Wi-Fi Poor Bluetooth

Overall this was a great purchase. Low price, improved WiFi speed and quality. I use Steam Streaming over Ethernet on my PC, but I tested it with Wi-Fi at my home. My computer was placed in a corner of the basement with the surrounding bookshelves placed horizontally away from the TV (2nd floor) and router (3rd floor). Very few packets were dropped, and the stream remained in sync and repeatable. I stacked the chances against it and put in a good performance. I put it in a better position without blocking the signal, except it's still in the basement and working fairly close to ethernet. Only when the system was struggling with demanding games in the morning did any crashes occur, and even then performance was better than mine had when I locked it. I have to deduct a star because the Bluetooth is not that great despite the WLAN. Great. This is enough to quickly sync all devices, but in favorable and unfavorable conditions, it worked poorly with prolonged use. Bluetooth controller input is lost, dedicated Bluetooth networks for using the phone as a modem are patchy and have a very noticeable difference in quality compared to a USB tethering with the same phone and service in the same place. It is 3-8 feet. In use case tests, Bluetooth headphones got worse when tested at 20 feet. It worked well enough when it was only a few meters away, but on the other hand you sometimes lost the audio for half a second. Like once every few minutes and sometimes several times within a minute. At least it's small and easily fits in a suitcase. I bought it to use on my PC as a WiFi extender/second WiFi network as it already has a direct connection to the router via ethernet. This makes connecting other Wi-Fi only devices pretty easy.

Pros
  • Internal
Cons
  • Not sure