Intel7260.HMW Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 Network Adapter PCI Express Half Mini Card 802.11 b/a/g/n/ac

I am thoroughly satisfied with this network card. I was skeptical because I intended to use it on a 2008 Dell Inspiron 1545 (with an Intel processor). I was worried if such a modern (relative to the computer) card would be compatible. I am running Windows 8.1 Pro, so I knew that the drivers were present, it was just a matter of the chipset accepting this wireless card. Other concerns like, if the full bandwidth could be attainable on such an old device were also present. And turned out, none of those concerns were a problem. This card is incredible and extremely backwards compatible.I recently upgraded this PC to Windows 8.1 and just had my WiFi router upgraded to a dual channel, 802.11ac with dual streams. The maximum AC (link) speed advertised both by my router and on this card was 866 Mbps. And if you look at the image on this review, this theoretical link speed was achieved with this card on a 7 year old laptop.I haven't installed Plex Media server after the Windows 8.1 upgrade, however I can not wait to have Plex up and running. My Roku and other plex apps are going to be thrilled. I tried chrome tab morroring on the chromecast and it was almost real time and was flawlessly casting HD videos from Vimeo (I'm not a big vimeo user, but I used vimeo because it streams the video on the computer as it is an unsupported site for direct casting, supported services like Netflix or YouTube would stream directly to chromecast, which would have made this casting test useless). While it beat up my good old Core2 Duo processor, the WiFi card just performs. Additionally, I use Xender app to transfer files between my phone and the PC. Now the app transfers faster than the wired USB connection.Additionally, the card came with a bonus Bluetooth 4.0 LE upgrade, earlier my Bluetooth headset only worked in the room this computer was in and maybe the neighboring room...Now it works everywhere in the house. Even outside.Latest drivers are always posted and updated periodically on Intel's site.P.S: My Internet connection nowhere nears this link speed. My 7 year old card could handle triple the speed of my Internet plan. The reason to have this card was not internet speed, at all. I have an ecosystem of intraconnected devices, that interact with each other. The update to the WiFi router and this upgrade to my laptop takes the intraconnected communications to their best potential.

[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.

Bought this to replace a slower non-BT card that was installed in an old Dell Inspiron 3521.The AC 7620 works great, im getting about a 40% uplift in network speed and a significant reduction in ping and i now have bluetooth support but if anyone else is considering this as an upgrade for an older platform, be aware that drivers are not readily available on Intels website.I would post direct links here but im not sure if thats allowed by Amazon but just google "Intel AC 7620 drivers reddit" and one of the results has a top reply giving links to hidden URLs via WayBackMachine that worked perfectly for me (the drivers state that they are for windows 10 but they work just fine on my laptops windows 11 OS) just be sure you know which architecture your machine is running (32 or 64 bit) and choose the correct driver.Just download the (2) drivers and install (i installed (1) at a time, starting with wifi and then restart PC. After restart, installed bt driver and again restarted.)Couldnt be happier with the results!