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.

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.

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.