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.

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.

Worked right away. I pre-download drivers in a thumbdrive, but did not need them. Loaded automatically. Works well.

I can now use my Bluetooth mouse, so it's a great upgrade

My HP Envy 15 came with an Athero N mode adapter. It can't go faster than 54 Mbps with my FiOS 300 Mbps. I decided to replace it with an AX X6 adapter but I don't have an upgrade AX router. So I decided to upgrade my laptop adapter with this Intel AC 7260 adapter. It came in few days on Sunday. I took my HP Envy 15 apart and took out the Athero wifi adapter. This Intel AC7260 came on Sunday after 6:30 pm. I installed it right the way. My HP Envy booted up and found this Intel AC7260 with the MS driver. The wifi part is an unknown device. The MS driver speed was about 286 Mbps out of my FiOS 300 Mbps. I went to the Intel website and downloaded the latest driver. It was installed OK without issue. Wifi unknown device disappeared. Everything works fine and the web page upload speed is faster than the old Athero wifi adapter.