Intel 7260.HMW Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 Network Adapter PCI Express Half Mini Card 802.11 b/a/g/n/ac

Perfect replacement for my Dell's B/G/N adapter. Before you try this for your laptop, here's what you need to know; 1. Do I have a 1/2 height mini PCIe slot? Find an exact replacement for your laptop and read the description... if it's a 1/2 height mini PCIe, continue... if not, look elsewhere. 2. Does my laptop manufacturer 'whitelist' components in the BIOS? Whitelist is a method the vendors use to limit your options to only hardware they allow. The questions is a hard one to answer too; I had to google quite a bit to find out the Dell does not whitelist. Your vendor might... If they don't, continue... if they do, consider a USB adapter. 3. Can you get to the card and are you comfortable with the task? Again, google and youtube are your friends... I youtube'd how to replace my wifi card and a perfect video showed me how to remove my keyboard to gain access to the card and how to swap the card. If yes, continue... if no, look elsewhere. I installed the card in my 18 month old Dell Inspiron 17R, Core i3, 8 gig, Win10... I downloaded and installed the Intel drivers from a comment in a review before I installed the card. When I powered back on and booted up, the adapter worked instantly with no additional action required. My 5 Ghz network was immediately available and connected with no issues. Previously speedtest.net put my downloads from Charter at 35 average from my TP-Link AC1750 router. After installing this card and connecting to the 5Ghz network, my speedtest results easily top 120. It's a huge change for $30 and about 15 minutes of actual installation work. I spent about 2 hours googling the various compatability questions and watching how-to videos. Highly recommend this card to anyone willing to do the research ahead of time to ensure it works. The AC speeds are fantastic and I don't have a USB dongle or external card to worry about snagging or breaking.

It was delivered promptly and just worked. Ubuntu had no trouble finding the correct drivers.

[Nov 30, 2014] Summary. This Intel 7260-AC is great for wireless-AC on my HP Envy laptop, with new TP-Link Archer C7 v2 (dual band AC 1750) and my Bluetooth mouse. I found it is best to use only Windows Update for drivers (Intel.com drivers caused Bluetooth random drops). I stopped using Intel WiDi as connections were erratic with hesitation and audo/video stutters. [Nov 30, 2014] Intel WiDi is not usable with Netgear NeoTV Max -- random drops, video/audio stutters. I'm now trying Google Chromecast media player, which uses Wifi-N. [Nov 5, 2014] Quite happy after a week now with a new wireless-AC router (TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750), which replaced my old wireless-G router. On Windows 8.1, the only tweak needed was to set "AdHoc QoS Mode" to "WMM Enabled" on the Intel card, which corrected a WiDi problem of randomly dropping connections. Happily using the Intel 7260's WiDi on my laptop to play web videos such as Hulu and Youtube to my TV using WiDi. Connects as advertised at 300Mbps on 2.4GHz band or at 866.7 at 5GHz band. Strong and fast connections anywhere in my 1200 sf home. I have other devices with no more than 100Mbps connections, so no way to test the max throughput, but those devices are easily maxed out by my laptop now. [Oct 22, 2014] I'll defer on all questions concerning the "Revision" label. I've removed my previous speculative comments. Too little info available. [Oct 16, 2014] The item I received works great. On it is printed "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC" and "Model 7260HMW", as I expected. No indication of a revision, but the vendor did post a picture of the shipping label showing the dot "R", so I'm fine with that. [Oct 14, 2014] Paid 29.99, received on-time (Oct 11, 2014), non-retail packaging (plastic clam-shell), with 2 useful screws. Sold by Mobile Computing Solutions. This product, Intel 7260HMWG (Wireless-AC, dual-band, Bluetooth 4, WiDi) replaced an Intel 2230 (Wireless-N, single-band 2.4GHz, Bluetooth 4, WiDi). It's only connected to an 802.11g router, but with this upgrade working well, the next step is to upgrade the router. It's also connected to a WiDi display. My laptop is HP Envy Touchsmart m6-k025dx (Intel i5-4200U CPU), Windows 8.1.

Used this wi-fi to upgrade an older laptop. With the turn of a few screws, the old wi-fi card was removed and this unit installed. Worked as designed. It is a good unit and priced correctly.

Works well, but are not on all Lenovo white lists. Double check before you buy.

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Compatible avec le Toshiba à condition de télécharger le driver sur le site d'INTEL.

got this to so I could change to 5G WIFI on my desktop

I bought two of these in 2019, to upgrade the wifi on a 2009 laptop (Core 2 Duo) and an older netbook (Atom). Both wifi cards still work great in 2023. I maxed out in all specs in the laptop, and the wifi was one of the things I wanted to upgrade from WiFi "N". Back then I still had my Windows 7 as a "just in case" OS, but the Intel wifi driver was garbage with it (I removed Windows as a result). With Linux Mint, it ran at maximum speed, the wireless range improved significantly, it was a delight to see the old laptop so fast in networking. At the moment of writing this review, I'm doing a network backup through it, and it keeps going at maximum speed. The same performance brought the even older netbook into modern days. I don't need that for CPU power, but the fast wifi was perfect for what I wanted to do with it. The bluetooth also works great on both, this is a solid card and I'm happy with it almost 4 years later. If you have an old laptop with poor wifi, upgrading it is well worth it.