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Review on πŸ“Ά Intel Wireless-AC 9260, 2230, 2x2 AC+BT, Gigabit (Non-VPro) by John Kahsar

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Antenna colors have been swapped! Great product and price

Based on previous 1 star reviews I was more careful when installing. Because of the low price I thought, WTH, I'll try it out. Glad you did! Watch the installation video on this page U. Very important note: On my Dell 7559 laptop, the top wire of the antenna was white and the bottom wire was black. Labeled AUX and MAIN. This card still has AUX and MAIN, but the letters are so small you can't read them without magnification, and the ARROW COLORS ARE ROTATED. If you connect white to white and black to black arrow, it's WRONG, at least like my previous Intel Wifi card and laptop did. Needs to connect primary to primary and secondary to secondary, leaving the white and black wires in their original top and bottom configurations on my particular laptop and version of my old wifi card. It wasn't easy to attach the micro antenna fasteners, but perseverance and caution helped. My speed exceeded my expectations. Can my router use the 160 and 80 MHz broadband? My speeds have doubled on both 2.4 and 5GHz to my ISP's max data plan of 238Mbps through walls and floors! Much better than an old card or USB sticks. Antenna bars also went up. Time will tell if it is stable or not burn out. Win10 automatically installed good drivers. I tried Intel's generic drivers and both gave the fastest speed. I am using a 7th gen Intel laptop processor and it is in the Wifi M.2 slot. This may not work with an AMD processor or memory slot, or a very old processor and motherboard. My bluetooth devices appear in the found list and everything looks fine in the control panel. Haven't tested this yet, but that's FYI too as others have said Bluetooth doesn't work. Swapped lines?

Pros
  • Absolutely amazing!
Cons
  • Angry