Intel 8260 IEEE 802.11ac - Wi-Fi Adapter

Purchased this little guy after finding out my Dell XPS 8900 Desktop had a single-band (2.4 GHz) wireless card of same structure (Remember, this is for the M.2 slot, formerly NGFF, of 3320/sometimes called "half-height" size). With a cable modem with dual-band wifi at 75 Mbps from my ISP at my disposal, I was severely throttled by this stock card!! Agree with rest of reviews -- BE SURE TO GET INTEL DRIVERS FIRST onto the computer receiving this little guy BEFORE you install it! Just do a Google search for "Intel Wireless 8260 Driver". Drivers install without issue and begins to work immediately without restart! After purchasing this, I connected to the 5GHz Wifi, and my connection speeds (per Speedtest of ~33-34 mbps on 2.4GHz) improved to 70-75mbps (5 GHz)!! Easy to install. *Does* come with mounting screw. Side tangent about "Dual Band" or "Wireless-AC", which means both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz -- Keep in mind, 5 GHz means more bandwidth with less interference -- but less Wi-Fi range. In my case, this connection functioned with the modem in the living room and the desktop in the corner of a study -- about 15-20 feet walk around the corner via the hallway, with ~3 feet of drywall. Still got 3 out of 4 bars! However, I got very weak signal while being outside adjacent to the side-door, 20 feet away as well, but through brick walls. So, if you got a setup that's within the same floor with mostly drywall, you'll most likely not have any issues with wifi range -- going from basement to upper floors (or to outside), however, might be an issue. Also, keep in mind, if you got less than 35 mbps internet connection with your ISP, having 5 GHz will provide minimal benefit (save for less interference if, for example, you live in apartment complex with multiple wifi networks in small location). Ahem, back to topic. A great buy for desktops/laptops alike, highly recommended!!

I got the Intel 8260 Wi-Fi Adapter to replace the Intel 3165 Wi-Fi Adapter that was present in my laptop. My review will mainly be discussing the differences between the two Wi-Fi adapters, as most people who would be interested in an adapter such as are more than likely upgrading an older adapter. Download Speeds: The 8260 is miles better than the 3165. When downloading games from Steam, I noticed up to 3 times faster downloads with the 9260. Additionally, I'm able to comfortably watch YouTube videos at up to 1440p, where I was previously only able to watch up to 720p videos with the 3165, with there being many cases where it would drop to 480p. The 8260 wasn't quite enough for me to watch YouTube videos at 4k, however that is more than likely due to my internet speeds, as only my wired devices can handle 4k video streaming. Upload Speeds: The 8260 and the 3165 have very similar upload speeds. This is fine as the 3165 actually had decent upload speeds. If your only issue with the 3165 is the upload speeds, than the 8260 isn't going to give you much better results. Range: The 8260 and the 3165 have similar ranges, however the 8260 was much more usable due to the faster download speeds. There are going to be areas where the 3165 is basically unusable due to the slow speeds, however the 8260 should be able to retain better speeds at the same distances. Verdict: I ultimately picked up this card over the 8265 mostly due to the fact that the 8265 was backordered and I didn't have the time to wait due to moving to a new apartment. While the 8265 is probably worth the extra $3-$5 or so, I was thoroughly impressed by the performance of the 8260 in comparison to the 3165. (I believe that the 8265 gives slightly better range than the 8260, but speeds should be pretty similar overall.) I can easily recommend this Wi-Fi adapter.

Relief, reliable wifi on my Dell XPS 13 9350. The stock Dell 1820A Broadcom wifi card in this otherwise wonderful device was a pain as it would always disconnect when awakening from sleep, the range was quite short either on 2.4 or 5 GHz, balky Bluetooth which would slow wifi to a crawl, etc. After seeing reports of good reception and performance with this unit and seeing they are installed on the Ubuntu versions of the XPS 13 I installed it. The new card works like a charm, just had to do a few things to get it up and running but now now problems and over 125 M downloads. Very happy with this vendor and product. For those making the transition here's a few tips: 1. Before you do anything - go to the Intel site and download the wifi and Bluetooth driver packages so you'll have something to get the card installed when you start up. 2. Go into Programs and uninstall the Broadcom WIDCOMM application, the Bluetooth application and anything else named Broadcom. 3. Go into device manager and turn off Bluetooth and uninstall the wifi driver. 4. Reboot and check that the wifi card has a triangle next to it in device manager. 5. Crack open the XPS 13 (there is a Phillips screw under the magnetic plate on back) using a Torx T5. 6. Unscrew the plate at the top of the wifi card and remove the two antenna wires carefully with tweezers. 7. Remove and replace the new Intel card. Attach the antenna wires (they just push on) matching the black and white symbols. 8. Reattach the plate and screw to secure the wifi card and close up the case. 9. Boot up - Win 10 will recognize the wifi card immediately and install the driver. 10. Open up the updated Intel drivers and install wifi followed by Bluetooth. 11. Reboot and reconnect to wifi and Bluetooth. You're good to go. Test the device through a few sleep cycles and reboots and all should be good. Truly painless.

I got the 8260 to replace the 3160 in my Dell Inspiron 15 5995 laptop. This 8260 is M.2 2230 came in pink bubble wrap instead of the normal little brown box and anti static plastic seal. Sometimes the connect speed show up above 800Mbps but wont stay locked on compared to 3160 which stays locked on above 400Mbps. Signal strength on the 8260 was less when behind walls compared to the 3160 only by less than 10%. Only difficulty I had was putting the wires back on. Overall, I'm satisfied with the purchase. I purchased a second 8260 to replace the 3160 for the Dell Inspiron 15 7559 but waiting for Dell to ship it to me. I'll post how it works out once I get it. Updated: Works fine in the Dell Inspiron 15 7559 and same connection issues above due to frequency limitations on all devices. Also could not find any documentation on Bluetooth 4.2 if this supports "aptx"? Like the AZIO and Creative bluetooth adapters(Creative only works with other Creative devices) both support aptx.

When I bought my laptop a little over a year ago, I opted to immediately take advantage of the free Windows 10 upgrade that was offered. The one major issue I experienced with Win10 was with the Wi-Fi: the network I have at home & the networks at friends'/relatives' homes I frequently visit don't broadcast the SSID. So after manually entering my home network info and connecting fine, if I took the laptop to my mother's I would, of course, have to manually enter her network credentials to connect. But then after getting home the laptop wouldn't find my home network; in the end I would have to delete the "known" credentials and re-enter in order to connect. I had to do this EVERY TIME I connected my laptop's Wi-Fi to a different network. I figured it was a Windows 10 issue, based on some blogs I'd found & read, and just suffered with it & waiting for a fix. So a year later I encountered something that helped me to realize this is NOT a Win10 issue but appeared more likely to be a hardware problem. I tried changing the drivers for the wireless card - even skipped the Dell-released driver and tried the Broadcom drivers for the card model number - to no avail. The Intel 8260 had high reviews, and at its low price I figured it was worth a try. In short: I no longer have the "connect to non-broadcast network" issue! I've noticed that the range is much better, as network speed is hardly impacted when I'm furthest away from my router. But most importantly: I can take my laptop to a friend's place and it'll connect to the network immediately - then when I get home and boot up it finds my network and connects right away. No more having to manually type in network info every time. It's a relief after having dealt with this problem for as long as I did. So a word to folks who own some of the recent Dell XPS laptop models (circa 2014 & later): if you're experiencing issues like what I described above, just know that it's most likely the poor wireless card Dell is using: replacing it is probably your best move. Do your research and make sure that the laptop model you have can suit this card first. Google is your friend here: you'll find tons of posts that list part numbers/brands that will fit your laptop, as well as instructions for proper installation (both the physical aspect of removing panels to get inside your laptop AND proper instructions for uninstalling drivers/software before removing parts to be replaced). One thing Dell has continued to do well over the years is make assembly of their PCs/laptops pretty simple, so it's usually a quick process to open up/remove panels to get inside your Dell computer to replace parts.

I bought this to replace the TERRIBLE Atheros WiFi Go! module that Asus bundles with their Z170 and Z270 ITX motherboards (maybe others, too). With the Atheros module, it would not connect to my 5GHz network, claiming some unspecified error after I correctly entered the WiFi password. Sometimes the Atheros module wouldn't even see the 5 GHZ network -- not mine, nor my neighbors... So I ordered this Intel module from Amazon and installed it. It required removing the "WiFi Go!" shield (2 screws) and replacing the Atheros M.2 WiFi card with this one -- it was an even swap, the two modules are exactly the same size, and use exactly the same size antenna connectors. The whole operation required me to disconnect everything from my motherboard and remove the motherboard to access the back so I could unscrew the two little screws holding on the "WiFi Go!" module. After this minor surgery, I am pleased as punch to say that now it sees and properly connects to my 5 GHz WiFi network. Speeds are what I expect. So far no drop-outs or disconnects. KUDOS to Intel for making a good WiFi module that just plain works. BOOOOO HISSSSSS to Asus for including such a terrible WiFi solution in your high-end motherboards! Atheros WiFi should be kicked to the curb.

This newer model Intel 8260AC is NOT fully compatible with my HP Envy Slim Quad Core late-2015 model, whereas the older model 7265AC worked perfectly in my laptop. Yes technically this Intel 8260ac "worked" as in, it connected to my routers, but I had annoyances even after installing the latest Windows 10 drivers straight from Intel, such as: 1. Its newer bluetooth version seemed flaky with my "old" Bluetooth 4.0 devices, 2. My laptop's wifi button on the keyboard lights up with a warning that you cannot turn off, 3. My laptop's bios did NOT blacklist it, but the BIOS had no idea it was a wifi card either. Overall I'm guessing if HP makes a bios/firmware update and Intel makes another driver update then this 8260ac might somehow someday work better than my working-perfectly-fine 7265ac, so I'll hang on to it. I also don't like returning things I don't absolutely have to! That being said, when I found out the newer 8260ac is the exact same 866mbs speed as the 7265ac, and since I'm not having any troubles with my 7265ac at all whatsoever, I thought I'd just leave everything as-is unless I'm either (1) having a problem in the future or (2) some bios/driver update for the 8260ac can somehow make it better/faster. In summary, in my case, it was better to stay with "last years model" of intel's 802.11ac wifi chip, the 7265ac.... same speed, so unless you need a newer bluetooth version than 4.0, who cares?

I'm not sure what the deal is with these network cards, but they won't pick up the 5ghz signal which was the reason for purchasing this. I have a RT-AC3200 Tri-band Asus router. All my other PC's including tablets and phone pick up the 5ghz signal no issues, however I can't for the life of me get this card to detect on an Alienware Alpha R2 even after updating Bios, resetting router, etc.... After putting out a second 5ghz signal from my router, the card detected it, but the speeds are subpar not any better than my 2.4ghz. I have 300mb internet and max I get with this card is 80 whereas all my other PC's I get the 300mb. I've used an external USB network adapter and I get 300mb but this card just doesn't work as it should.

gran cambio de velocidad entre la otra tarjeta que estaba en mi ordenador, como tambien el rango de la conexion ahora puedes estar mas lejos del router.

Utilizzato per ringiovanire un vecchio Lenovo Z410, ha contribuito a svecchiare il PC. Attenzione; verificare che il bios del pc non sia bloccato per nuovi componenti; il mio lo era ma gogglando su vari forum ho trovato la strada per "sbloccare" il bios. Funziona perfettamente

Exactly as specified, fast delivery

genuine device.

Nachdem ich nun bei Kabel Deutschland 200Mbit/s bekomme, war die Übertragungsrate der werksseitig eingebauten WLAN-Karte in meinem Lenovo Z50-70 nicht mehr ausreichend. Bei dem hier angebotenen Modul handelt es sich um das "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260". Die Abmessungen betragen 22x30x2.4 (BxLxH in mm). Ich habe mich für dieses WLAN-Modul entschieden, weil es zur Zeit noch recht neu auf dem Markt ist, die aktuellen WLAN-Standards beherrscht und selbst bei Bluetooth nicht patzt - und bisher definitiv den Kauf nicht bereut! Im Zusammenspiel mit der Fritz!Box 6490 bin ich nun im 5GHZ-Band unterwegs, Verbindungsrate liegt bei 867MBit/s, d.h. ich kann auch die volle Bandbreite meines Internets über WLAN nutzen. Auch Datenübertragungen im Netzwerk zum und vom NAS-Server sind nun um einiges schneller geworden! Selbst 1080p-Inhalte auf den TV zu streamen läuft jetzt tadellos! Keine Verbindungssabbrüche oder sonstige Ungereimtheiten. Man sollte lediglich vor dem Einbau den Treiber von der Intel-Website downloaden, da selbst Windows 10 keinen Standardtreiber vorinstalliert hat (Stand März 2016). An alle Nutzer, deren BIOS über eine sogenannte Whitelist verfügt: Diese muss vorher "abgeschaltet" werden, googelt nach "BIOS-mods.com", dort werdet ihr fündig. Besitzer von Lenovo Notebooks finden dort auch einen Guide, mit welchen ihr den Mod auch selbst machen könnt. Sofern man technisch etwas begabt ist, bekommt man den Aus- & Einbau dann auch noch problemlos selbst hin. Akku raus, Schrauben lösen, Abdeckung abschieben und dann das kleine WLAN-Modul suchen, ist nicht zu übersehen, da kein ähnliches Bauteil in der Größe zum Tausch offen liegt (so war es jedenfalls bei meinem Z50-70). Die beiden Antennenkabel mit einem kleinen Schlitzschraubendreher mit Gefühl ablösen und dann das Modul entfernen. Der Rest sollte dann selbsterklärend sein.