If you already have the card, you can always try swapping it in and seeing if it works. It's not going to break anything as the two wireless devices are electrically compatible. If it's whitelisted, what you will most likely experience is the wireless indicator (if your laptop has one) will not light up and Windows won't detect your wireless device after the swap. If it does work, well, just install the latest drivers from Intel and enjoy your better connectivity.:-) On a side note, be careful with the antenna connections on the wireless card as if you pull them up in a twisted fashion they can actually take the tiny plug off of the wireless card with them.

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That style of connection, while it holds and conducts well, is not meant to survive removal and reattachment more than 20-some odd times. Got the ac 7260 card today and. It didn't work wireless light didn't come on as soon as power led does this gives me the assumption the card was faulty or blocked via bios probably blocked I'd say, however device manager picked up the wifi part but not bluetooth as soon as i switched back to the 2230 n card the wireless light came on with the power led and device manager picked up wifi and bluetooth. I have came across the tape pin# 20 and 51 for sony vaio sve14XXXXX higher models than mine, but they are on the same motherboard and bios version. Any suggestions?

Just giving an update the wifi card was accepted and all is working great Sony confirmed they don't use whitelist in their bios the hardware support rep I was talking to said they don't support upgrades (obviously) but they aren't blocked and he wouldn't tell if if the item worked but advised to go within the socket specs for cpu and wifi as if he wasn't allowed to tell me but was playing tricky haha. I still had issues within win7 it wasn't till after i upgraded to win8.1 pro also the tape is removed from the card. Wireless light works too. It seems as though it was the vaio smart connect blocking it and the sony firmware parser these didn't get installed with win8 I had to manually install drivers then the sony wireless state device popped up and I had to install that too it was never there in win7.

A Good wifi card for a speedy internet connection. The connection is very stable and fast as expected of an Intel's product. I put it in a Vaio E series laptop (specific model number SVE1411EGXB for anyone wondering). The laptop was produced in 2011 and don't have an On/Off wireless switch.

At first, the computer recognizes the wifi card with all driver install stated it is working properly. However, I cannot turn on Wifi. Spend a day troubleshooting and nothing help. Finally, try the tapping method I found on Google, where you specifically use electric tape (other tapes work too but I recommend electric tape) to tape pin 20 and 51 of the card (these pins allow the computer to turn the card off). After taping the two pins, the wifi and Bluetooth work great and very stable. (pin 51 is on the side where you connect​ the antenna while pin 20 is on the back of your wifi card).

I installed this on a Toshiba Portege 835-P56x with Windows 10. The WiFi AC worked great, but Bluetooth was not showing up in the device manager. I installed the drivers from Intel's web site, but still no Bluetooth. I did some hunting around online and I found that people had success by putting scotch tape over Pin 51 on the card.

(See attached photo I found elsewhere.) I disassembled my laptop again, carefully used scotch tape to tape off Pin 51, and lo and behold, I had Bluetooth. I don't know why this works, but it does. WiFi speeds on AC at 5Ghz are 240 Mbps down and 170 Mbps up. (I have Cox Gigablast and a Ubiquiti wireless AP.) This would get five stars if I did not have to hunt for the scotch tape hack.

If you are sophisticated enough to replace your WiFi card, though, you can tape off a pin. If Bluetooth does not appear in the Device Manager, then try taping off Pin 51. This card worked perfectly in my Dell XPS L701X (and most the L702X). Although I needed to open the laptop (yep, under the keyboard), it was pretty speedy to unplug the old 6200 Wireless N card and replace it with this 7260 Wireless AC card.

A video can be found on YouTube to instruct you how to swap this card out. Windows 10 drivers picked this card up immediately after I booted up, so all was good, however I strongly suggest you download the latest drivers from Intel (link below) A couple of notes: 1.

Because this card contains Bluetooth 4.0 support along with Wireless AC, you should unplug this laptop's old, separate Bluetooth 2.0 card while the computer is open, found under the right side of the palmrest. Because the default Windows 10 drivers are older, I strongly recommend downloading & installing the MUCH newer 7260 Bluetooth.AND. 7260 WiFi drivers (for Windows 7, even if you have a Windows 10 machine) from Intel's web site by doing a Google search for 'Intel 7260 Drivers'. I purchased a card here and while I have not installed mine I do have a friend who asked me to install her card and it had all the issues listed here such as AC band or BT not working or other issues. She has an Acer 5742G which is a few years old but not obsolete by any means. When I installed this card in her laptop it became unbelievably slow.

I am talking about 20 minutes to boot up instead of the usual 3-4. Even when it booted into Windows 7 everything ran really slow. Wireless showed up and would connect but BT was nowhere to be found. I removed the card and installed the old one, everything ran smoothly. I did research to see if it was a BIOS issue since some manufacturers like HP and Lenovo code so-called 'whitelists' or what products are certified, or more like allowed, to work on the laptop.

Acer does not use whitelists so I continued to be baffled and thought it was just a compatibility problem, a bad card or something wrong with the laptop itself. While searching on the Acer site I found a post that mentioned these problems with the same laptop and wlan card and low and behold they found a solution: to tape off pin #51 and maybe even pin #20 on the card. It seems Intel uses these pins to provide on/off signals for the BT function and of course they didn't seem to think about backwards compatibility for older laptops or even newer ones that don't support this. I taped off pin #51 with regular scotch tape and the laptop started up normally recognized all the wireless radios, including bluetooth. I let Windows download and install the drivers for everything and tested the wifi and bt functions: all is working perfectly.

It has been about 3 days and she has not reported any problems. She said her bt mouse, keyboard and headset all work fine without any type of audio choppiness or lag the usb bt module she was using caused.

She does not have an AC router so I cannot attest to that part but the wireless N was working great and getting speeds of 500 when transferring large files. I hope this can help others here who have been suffering from the same problems. If this doesn't work just google 7260 AC Pin 51 and you will get plenty of results.

Not many issues with it. I went from 54mbps to 300mbps. Just be prepared to do the following. Go to the following website: downloadcenter(.).intel(.)com(/)product(/)75439/Intel-Dual-Band- Wireless-AC-7260 (You know what to remove for that to work) and download the latest driver packages for your configuration ( wireless AND Bluetooth) 2. Shut down laptop, remove external power supply, and battery then swap out card (laptops vary.

Google/YouTube is your friend). When finished, close up, re-install the battery, boot up and UNINSTALL any old Dell (or other brand) wireless control software. Install the new Intel software packages 5. Setup your wireless information and go!

Not that difficult other than locating the driver packages. And for the price, this is a BIG update for an older laptop that is G only and no Bluetooth!

(Note: Edited to fix the URL getting cut out.). I've got a G6-2249wm POST 2012 production so I didn't have to worry about HP's infamous and dreaded 'whitelist' or a 'BIOS restriction that only allows HP certified WiFi cards to be used'. This prevents user from easily upgrading their crappy HP certified WiFi cards with good ones like the intel7260. In this case, an upgrade requires the user to 'flash' or 'mod' their factory BIOS with a sketchy, 3rd party, un-tested, boot-able app in order to remove or modify this 'whitelist'. No thank you. I highly recommend that all PRE 2012 HP, Levono and Toshiba users do a little research on your laptops specific model to see if you have a BIOS whitelist prior to purchasing the intel7260.

Though this upgrade is still feasible it may not be worth your time, depending on your skill level. The installation for my laptop was literally plug and play. I uninstalled the factory Ralink3920 drivers prior to removing and re-installing the new hardware, booted up and just like that everything was working! I tried to upgrade drivers and I got a message that the most recent drivers were already installed! Upgrading from a Ralink3920 to an Intel7260 was like upgrading from the 'Wright Brothers' first flying machine to a F-22 fighter jet! Went from a lousy unstable 30-72mbps to a stable 144mbps using wireless N. Also, NO more Bluetooth audio dropouts!

The Ralink Bluetooth was garbage would hardly work even from 3 ft away, the Intel has a range of at least 10 ft or better! I do notice while using Bluetooth and Wireless N at the same time, my WiFi bandwidth will sometimes fluctuate between 144mbps and 130mbps. My internet connection maxes out at 60mbps so for all basic purposes, this is minimal interference and completely unnoticeable unlike my experience with the factory Ralink.

I haven't tried on a wireless AC network yet, but I certainly plan on upgrading to an AC router shortly. Perhaps with the extra bandwidth l will be able to simultaneously stream to a Bluetooth audio device and 1080p over a wireless AC router to my VGA projector server! Wishful thinking. My Dell was getting ok speeds of about 80 Mbps down and 20 up using wireless downstairs in my office. I have an Apple AirPort Extreme and a Motorola SB6190 upstairs in the game room hooked up to the TV and all my consoles. My internet service is at currently at 200 Mbps (downgraded from 300 to save a few per month). In the game room using Speedtest on everything from my iPads to laptops I can clock in at around 225 Mbps on wireless and Ethernet.

So back downstairs. After installing the new 7260.HMWG.R Revised WiFi card in my Dell I now get over 170 Mbps down and about 25 up. I can definitely tell the difference with increase. Web pages load up a lot faster and downloads of large programs and updates are done in a breeze. Besides getting upgrading to a 1 TB Samsung SSD, this was the second best upgrade I've done on my Dell. By the way, I've read one review where someone ordered the dot R Revised card, but got the first generation instead that made me worried it might happen to me.

I checked out mine thoroughly and made sure I got what I ordered. No complaints there! If your laptop or device still has an N card it I would really recommend getting this AC 2x2 card. Well worth the surprisingly little amount of money I paid for it! My MSI GT70 originally shipped, over two years ago, with what I'd assume was the original revision of this AC-7260 card. It has been a battle to stay connected from Day 1.

I have been watching Intel for updated drivers, and loading them as they became available, and things have improved greatly, but still losing connection every once in awhile. However, I recently bought a used HP Envy that shipped with a horrid Ralink WiFi card, and knew I had to do something, so I bought this card, installed it in my MSI, and moved the 'old' 7260 card from the MSI to the HP system (then went into the garage and pounded the Ralink card into dust with a hammer). My MSI has gone THREE DAYS without a loss of connection, and it hasn't done that since I bought that laptop 2 1/2 years ago.

The HP Envy is sort of relegated to secondary duties around the house, and with the newest drivers from Intel, it's been behaving pretty nicely with the old 7260 card. After reading some other reviews, I might mention a couple of items: 1. The WiFi card is responsible for three items.WiFi connectivity, WiDi ( wireless display) connectivity, and Bluetooth. Understand that this requires two separate downloads from Intel - one for the main WiFi drivers, which covers the WiFi and WiDi, and a second download for the Bluetooth drivers. So if you're installing the main driver package and can't get Bluetooth functioning, you ain't done downloading yet. These 7260 cards have been around for a while, but the fact that Intel has been releasing updated driver packages every other week (exaggeration) means that they understand there are issues, particularly with the earliest AC-7260 cards.

All I can say is that they have gotten better and better. On my MSI, the combo of the new drivers and this 'revised' card seem to have done wonders.

And although the HP system running with the older 7260 card has not gotten a lot of use since the card & software were installed, it has been flawless so far (knock on wood). Good card, reasonable price, what's to go wrong? Oh, and seller?

Thanks for the extra screws.I needed 'em. Update 6/25/17: I liked this card while it lasted, but it just crapped out after 8 months of intermittent use. Have heard rumors that there are knock off cards bearing reproduced Intel stickers that are indistinguishable from the authentic ones except for one important feature - quality and reliability. The original Intel Centrino card was still working after 5 years, and the upgrade was to increase connection speeds which it did. However, there was an expectation that this card would be long lived, and that hasn't been the case for me. I am left wondering if I should try again, or if I should be more wary this time around. Wishing there was a better way to identify and cull out the shams.

Bought this to upgrade the WiFi in my Dell Precision M6600 laptop. The original WiFi adapter, Centrino Ultimate-n 6300 AGN couldn't maintain a steady connection much above 320 Mbps with only occasional spikes up to the 450 Mbps limit. The Centrino is a 3 spatial card whereas this is a 2 x 2 card. Originally I couldn't get it to work by installing it and leaving the center antenna wire disconnected and thought that I might have to try a system recovery because it wasn't reporting any wireless device installed yet Device Manager was showing the device as installed and working properly. I yanked the card and re-installed my old one and now it wasn't working either.

I had uninstalled the Intel ProSet Win 10 drivers for this new card and the Centrino was now showing up as a device in Networking, but every time I tried enabling it the system would attempt and it would never complete. In order to correct this for the original card I fired up Command Prompt as an administrator and ran: 'netsh int ip reset' and then restarted the PC and the original card started working again which led me to try this same operation with the new 7260 AC card installed and it worked and I now am connecting with a solid 866.7 Mbps.

The Bluetooth isn't working yet and I will need to play around with that some to get it working, though I don't need it at this point so it isn't a high priority. Glad to be able to more than double my WiFi connection speed as this M6600 has an i7 processor, but with the Centrino card Internet connections made it feel very sluggish. I have a Dell Inspiron 17R SE 7720. I bought laptop new in 2013 (Top of the line). The laptop has served me well, but I wanted a faster wireless internet speed. I contacted Dell support and they told me that I could not update the wireless card on this laptop.

Faster speed could only be achieved by replacing the laptop. I did some research online and found this card mentioned in one forum. For the price is was well worth the chance. I am happy to report that it works like a champ. Brought a older 2.4 ghz only laptop up to 5 ghz wireless speed in no time.

Super easy to install. Works well with Acer Aspire E5-521-23kh laptop (the one with the AMD E2 6110 chip), and probably most if not all of the E5 series.

I uninstalled the stock wifi card drivers (Atheros singlr band - 2.4ghz b/g/n), then shut down the pc. Opened up the laptop (it's easy, novice-level, but if you're not comfortable messing with the guts of your computer, ask a friend (or email. Jut don't pay some company 100 bucks. It takes 3 minutes.).

If you want to do the hardware swap and have never opened up your Acer laptop, check YouTube first. So I swapped out the Qualcomm Atheros card for this Intel 7260.HMWG.R card. Put the laptop back together, plugged in the power and Ethernet, and booted it up. Windows 10 (64 bit) detected the new hardware right after booting up and automatically installed a working driver. It should work fine at this point, but you can go further; go to Intel's download center and get the newest driver. Then click 'update' in the adapter's driver tab in the device manager. With the newest driver (not sure the newest is even necessary, but it works great) you will have 108.11ac dual-band 2x2 capability.

The laptop has 2 antenna leads, so no need to add an extra antenna/cable (no taking apart the screen bezel, etc). Highly recommend this product. Super fast shipping (delivered free on a Sunday morning)!

If you have any questions or need help with the process (especially installing this on an Acer Aspire E5 notebook), contact me and I'd be happy to help. At first I was concerned about compatibility, since this WLAN/BT card in Intel and the laptop uses an AMD chipset, but there is absolutely no problem. Windows 10 (64-bit) manages and integrates everything perfectly. I bought this hoping to upgrade my laptop to AC connectivity with Bluetooth 4.0 but instead got a weekend plus a day of headache and frustration trying to fix connectivity issues between this card, my bluetooth devices, my wireless network and my office wireless network.

When it connected to wifi, it was great but would constantly die, resulting in the limited network connectivity error. Bluetooth connected fine as well, but every so often I would have problems with a couple of devices needing to be re-paired every time the laptop woke up from sleep. Again, never a problem with my old card.

I also decided to upgrade to a Bluetooth 4.0 keyboard but could never get it to pair with this card no matter how hard I tried. I was able to pair it with my work laptop and my old card but never got it working with this card under either Windows 7 or Windows 10. Amd physx drivers for mac. I thought it might be the laptop, so I tried the card in my work laptop but experienced the same problems. Losing connectivity to wifi and bluetooth devices, but speeds were also so much slower than the other card in my work laptop. The only difference being that I could actually pair the bluetooth 4.0 keyboard, but it lost connectivity the same way as the older bluetooth devices and was even more annoying to get reconnected, as I had to remove the device and re-pair every time it lost that connectivity.

I spent almost 4 days troubleshooting, reaching out to Intel, reading forum posts, changing all kinds of settings on my home network and the laptops, but never got this card to work properly. I thought that maybe I had received a faulty card so I went to a local shop which had one brand new for a bit more.

I experienced the same exact issues in both systems, but with different intensity and frequency ( wireless would die, but disabling/re-enabling would fix without a full restart, for example). Tried the same thing to get it working, and never got either card to work stable, so I decided to simply return them especially after reading all of the posts and reviews about this card from others online. Yes, the speeds were nice, which is the only reason I'm giving it 2 stars. But this card just seems to be plagued with problems no matter where it comes from. Consider yourself lucky if you don't have any issues. Product was as described and arrived in bubble pack, clean & quickly.

Used it to upgrade/replace a single band 2.4ghz adapter in an ASUS X501A laptop PC. Installing was as expected, the adapter worked the first try; get INTEL Wireless Pro Set software pack online & load it for install discovery or select from the process of the Device manager to install.

Full dual band, will work with AC -designed for it (do not have AC router yet, but fast dual band) and this adapter edition has the latest Bluetooth, which the laptop did not have. Bluetooth works very well. The INTEL software is an easy download; load after you reinstall the OS factor: opening the PC/LapTop will require OS reinstall, after physically installing the adapter reinstall the OS Windows 10, this case. Use a YouTube video -several show dis-assembly/re-assembly of the X501 ASUS. Extra screws included; and the product works with your pre existing x501a antenna.

Write down your MAC WFLN number from the adapter if you filter devices with your router. Operates beautifully.

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Intel file is self executing, the ASUS x501 a uses 64 bit architecture. Video language may be Russian - you just need the images). Very nice upgrade for my older computer. Upgrade to an AC router a while back. My older model desktop went to Windows 10. The best it could do was wireless N.

After installing this the pc went from 75 mps, on time warner cable turbo. To 756 mps 'on 5 ghz band' I will say that the Bluetooth software has to be installed separately from the web.

The software on the disk recieved a software incompatible error. After going online and correctly installing the proper software. The bluetooth is showing to be installed and working.

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It will not however connect to any tested devices. There are others that have reviewed this card and had the same problem. A few have listed options to fix the problem. I allready had a Bluetooth 4.0 usb adapter installed that works great. So I don't really need to try the fix option. The speed this card gives alone is worth it. It installed so easy on my hp slimline desktop pc.

Windows 10 auto installed the correct driver for it. It has been going strong for a while. Trouble with Bluetooth compatibility is the only reason for one star missing. The laptop gets 320Mbps across half the house, which is far better than the chip that came with the laptop. Had some random driver issue until I installed the newest Chipset and Wireless drivers from the Intel website. Either way it works great. My only complaint it that it's hard to figure out if you were actually shipped the revision model.

There is no obvious indication on the chip itself whether the model number is different so I had to fish the plastic packaging out of the trash to ensure I got the correct version. Considering this is the last serious upgrade to the Intel Wireless line before the switch to the m.2 format, this lack of information is quite the annoyance, but I suppose within a few years I'll never have to look at it again. I put this into my MSI All-in-One PC (made with mostly laptop components) and the bluetooth seemed to have no issues. I unplugged my wired network connection and that's when things got messy. The device manager says the device is working properly, but the Intel Wireless ProSet tools says there is no wifi card connected. The Intel driver updater says the driver's up to date.

I tried older drivers and got the same issue. I had Intel go into my system and try their troubleshooting methods, but they said it was an integration issue. I needed to update my BIOS firmware.

I UPDATED MY BIOS. The only successful story I've heard regarding this problem is when they reinstalled Windows. This is the error message I get: 'Windows Diagnostic Center:' Windows couldn't automatically bind the IP protocol stack to the network adapter. Intel PROSet/ Wireless Manual Diagnostic Tool: ' Wireless Hardware is not bound to transport driver.' If anyone knows how to fix this error, please let me know.

Otherwise this card is basically useless. Pros: - Easy to installdependent on laptop - Greatly improved wireless performance - Recognized instantly in Windows 10 without need for drivers Cons: - Could be a little cheaper Overall thoughts: Bought this card for my Dell Latitude 3540 which only came with single band wireless-N/bluetooth card. Installation was pretty easy but that is dependent on your laptop and not this product.

For me, it was to remove 3 screws underneath the laptop so I could remove the keyboard and disconnect the old card, then install the new one. Process took less than 15 min and I was up and running. Surprisingly Windows 10 automatically recognized the new card without the need for drivers however my previous wireless networks were wipedthis is the case anytime you connect a new wireless card and driver. Other than that I just got it today but overall performance works very well with my wireless-AC router at home. I used to not be able to get signal about 50 ft away, now I can be at one end of the house a little over 50 ft and have 5 bars.

Got this to put in my Asus ROG G75VW because the built in was total crap. Installed it, Windows 10 immediately installed the drivers and I was on my 5 GHz network within SECONDS. The factory wireless card (which only supported 2.4 GhZ) was giving me, no kidding.5-2 mb download speeds, and I have a 1 GB connection. From the same location in my house, after installing this and connecting to 5 Ghz I was getting 176 MB down and 117 up. For a wireless connection, you can't argue with that.

Rest assured, if it freaks out in the near future I will be revising my review. I upgraded my router to the ASUS RT-AC87U Wireless-AC2400, and decided to upgrade by Dell Inspiron 15R Notebook (Inspiron 7520) from the Intel Centrino Wireless 2230 with the Intel Network 7260.HMWG.R WiFi. Test Setup: - I setup up a 4GB RAMDisk on my laptop, along with two of my other computers that have CAT6 cables connected directly to the router. I used a batch file that transferred from a RAMDisk folder to another RAMDisk folder on a different computer on the network using EMCopy. I created a log of the transfers that showed the elapsed time of the transfer. The wi-fi tests were done at a distance of 20 feet of open space.

The file transferred was a single 3,608,574 KB image file (.ISO). I won't bore you with the details, just feel free to look up anything I've mentioned if you're interested.