Review on NETELY Bluetooth PCs 2 4GHz 2400Mbps AX200NGW by Victor Pinckney

This is a very good kit consisting of a PCIe card with an Intel Wireless+Bluetooth card. You can install it on any PCIe lane (x1 or higher). It comes with two brackets in case you want to mount it on a low profile computer. It also comes with a magnetized antenna that attaches to the side/top of the PC case. This is way better than the antennas that usually come with these types of cards, sticking out the back of your PC, cutting into your video cable, etc. The included Intel AX200 card is the latest and greatest Intel WiFi + Bluetooth card and supports WiFi 6 , which is still in the early stages of deployment. This means that this card should give you confidence in the future for some time and also supports very high speeds of almost 1Gbps if you have a WiFi 6 router and gigabit service from your ISP. The card also integrates the latest version of Bluetooth 5. Thus, this card replaces two USB devices (USB WiFi, USB Bluetooth). To install, you need to insert the card into the PCIe slot, connect the internal USB cable from the card to the motherboard, and boot up. (Bluetooth requires a USB cable; cable is included; most motherboards have internal USB ports, but you should make sure you have one). The package also includes a 3-inch CD with drivers for Windows and Linux. Good, because the drivers for this card are not included in the latest distribution of Windows 10, so you need them to install the card. I installed the card on an HPZ420 workstation running Windows 10. This motherboard on this computer is based on the Intel C602 chipset. As mentioned, installing the Windows card required the included driver for the card (there is also a Bluetooth installer on the CD, but once you've installed the wireless network card and connected to WiFi, Windows can use the appropriate Bluetooth Download driver from Windows driver store ). If you want to do that). I've tried installing this card on Linux, but I found that I have a 4.15 kernel and this card (brand new) requires a Linux 5.1+ kernel. Since this is a production machine, I didn't want to update the kernel. But installing an Intel card on a Linux distribution with a suitable kernel should be easy (today I installed the card's sister, the AC-9260, and installed it on Linux without doing anything at all). I have 100 Mbps. /100 Mbit/s Internet where I live and the card gets full bandwidth both down and up (see photo). In contrast, the USB WLAN stick from Linksys (WUSB6300, AC1200 rating) only gets 80% of it in the same place with the same computer. Overall I'm very happy with the card: it comes with everything you need, it's easy to install, it's recognized correctly and it works great.