Windows 10: Whats the best laptop half size mini pcie wifi adapter available?

im looking to buy a great wifi card for my laptop, i have a Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 and it is horrible! and before that a ralink atheros card. with this intel card i have i cant even connect my bluetooth headset to it because it crackles and disconnects, its so bad that i have to be in clear line of sight, perfectly still and within 2 feet for it not to act up. and yes i have tried every trick i can imagine, from making sure it wasn't in power saving to massing around with all the advanced options i can understand and making sure the drivers are up to date. as for gaming controllers i use my ps4 controller to play games on the laptop and it will randomly disconnect and and give heavy input delay. Also the wifi is 5g and its still isn't that great, its slow at times and im right in front the router. and my laptop was broken for a couple of months and i was using a replacement with a lower older intel 5g wifi card and it was flawless, it was a m.2 but my laptop dosent have a m.2.

So i am looking for a great replacement wifi card that is resistant to interference and that can have great bluetooth and 5g wifi without catching interference from usb 3.0
someone once told me that a company called AzureWave was good.

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Adapter is experiencing driver- or hardware-related problems in windows 10

Old title: Wifi adapter/ driver problem

My laptop just undated to windows 10 a few days ago. It worked fine until today. It looks like the wifi driver is having a problem. Here's what I found after troubleshooting:

The 1*1 b/g/n Wireless LAN PCI Express Half Mini Card Adapter adapter is experiencing driver- or hardware-related problems.

Now there is no wifi option in the network setting... Please help!

 

Wifi disconnected after upgrading Windows 10

Hello,

After upgrading Windows 10 (and update 1607) on my new laptop Asus X555DA, I have experienced wifi disconnected twice or more a day. Other devices such as mobile and tablets have no problem with wifi all day long but the laptop.

When the laptop works well with the wifi, I can see only two adapters on Network Adapters:

Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

However, whenever wifi is disconnected, I "always" find there appear several WAN miniports on Network Adapters:

Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller

WAN miniport (IKEv2)

WAN miniport (IP)

WAN miniport (IPv6)

...

No exclamation mark on any adapter. I have never seen this before I upgraded Windows 10.

It would be great if I can hear any helpful comments on this issue.

 

Interesting. I have that same exact card in my Dell Precision M4800 and it works flawlessly. I couldnt ask for a better card. Aside from Intel, I would suggest Atheros or Broadcom.

THis probably would be a good one as well: http://www.ebay.com/itm/CUK-Killer-D...gAAOSwTglYl0uu

ITs used in a lot of gaming and high end laptops.

 

That can't fit in mine it's not half mini or a pcie

 

I have two laptops with Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 in them and it is fantastic! The WiFi card can only be as good as what it is connected to, though. You might have a bad antenna connection or just poorly designed antennae.

 

well its not my router, because where ever i go it acts up, even on my friends router which is a high end gaming router. and the antenna shouldn't effect bluetooth as far as i know bluetooth is emitted directly from the chip.

 

There's this one:
Amazon.com: AzureWave Broadcom BCM94352HMB/BCM94352 802.11/ac/867Mbps WLAN + BT4.0 Half Mini PCI-E Card: Computers & Accessories

Got no idea if it's good or not. I think you are going to find here, though, that any of us that have upgraded our own laptops to AC dual band use the Intel 7260s.

 

i might try the AzureWave because this wifi card has always been trouble, in 2 different laptops

Intel dualband AC 7260 BLUETOOTH crackling and disconnecting - - Windows 10 Forums

 

And that particular WiFi card has worked perfectly in two laptops of mine and if I had any more laptops that needed upgraded that is the adapter that I would purchase for them.

 

i just brought a new LG hbs-910 bluetooth headphones and i still have to sit still and 1 foot in front of the laptop -__-

 

ok now i really need help, i borrowed my friends laptop half mini and the exact same thing is happening, what can it be?
Ok it seems to be working somehow, i opened up the laptop and took out the antennas and air dusted and alcohol and what not and force uninstalled all the intel wifi and stock wifi drivers as well as bluetooth drivers and fresh installed the drivers and the bluetooth is working great! i can be in the next room and still hear it. wifi is also uncapped from 150Mbps too. ill try some power cycles and see if it stays.

 

I had two laptops, personal and work, both with the Intel ac7260 card in them, both extremely problematic especially with linux. Subsequent Windows drivers made them about bearable but Linux never worked.
In my personal (Dell) I swapped the card for the older 6235 card and everything was perfect.
In my work (Lenovo) laptop I had to invoke customer support as a faulty card, they replaced it, it was much better in Windows but still bad in Linux.
There was a massive discussion on the Intel support forums about the card, so I think the first version/early product runs were faulty, Intel never admitted to it.