Product Details :
- Brand new revision of the GC-WB867D-I card with Bluetooth 4.2 via Intel 8260 Wireles card
- Supports Wireless/802.11 AC, B, G, and N bands
- 1x PCIe interface for typical desktop PC. Please Note: the card also requires a USB connection to your motherboard to make the Bluetooth functional. REV 4.2 features improved USB connection options now include a pin header or female USB A port. USB Pin header cable included
- Includes external antenna for optimum signal strength.
- Card includes: 1 Year MFG Warranty, 1x PCIe Wireless/Bluetooth Card, 1x Female USB header cable, External antenna w/ RP-SMA connection, installation guide, and driver disk
Was going to get the v2.1 version with the 7260 card in it, but this became available on the exact day I went to order it, so I decided to chance it, and haven't been disappointed. In the three weeks I've had it, it's been very reliable and fast.
The card has only a full height bracket, so unless you feel like modifying the bracket to make it fit a half height case, I would advise finding a different card.
The antenna cable is only about 2.5', so if your PC is on the floor, the antenna won't go much higher than the top of your desk surface.
Installation of the card is no problem. It fits snugly enough in the slot, but it still needs to be secured. Once the bracket is secured it's rock stable. It comes with the USB header cable which is used to connect Bluetooth. It also has a convenient USB port (you need your own A-to-A cable for this) to plug into if you don't have a free USB header to enable Bluetooth. If you don't want Bluetooth you don't need to connect the USB header or port. You have to connect one or the other for Bluetooth to work though.
Drivers are included on a CD, though I didn't use it and just downloaded from Gigabyte's site. The WiFi and Bluetooth drivers were easy to find, though they appear to just be stock Intel drivers anyway. I recommend using the Intel ProSet software, which requires you choose the custom install when installing the WiFi drivers. Otherwise it just installs the driver and leaves Windows to manage the connection. The ProSet software works better than letting Windows manage it, plus it gives you a tray icon that when you hover your mouse it will show the SSID, signal strength (which is also conveyed by the icon), link speed (nice!), and Internet status.
Performance has been great when connected to an ASUS RT-AC68U on 5GHz only at about 40 feet through 2 walls. I can't quite manage the full 667MHz link speed (though another three feet closer and I can, but I can't keep the antenna there), but I still see 585Mbps 100% of the time. File transfers between this PC and a Gigabit wired PC are about 40-60MB/s on 2TB 5400RPM drives. So I'm peaking at about 480Mbps transfer rate on file transfers, which is acceptable, considering the rotational drives and network overhead. My Internet peaks at only 150Mbps, so I have no issues with Internet. Ping times are the same as my Gigabit wired PC to within three tenths of a millisecond, and I've not had a single loss of connection. I frequently access my PC from my phone via VPN, and this is usually where I would see problems on other wireless devices, yet the connection is stable, even for streaming 1080p media over the VPN to my phone.
This card also supports both the lower and higher channels for 5GHz AC. I bought this card to replace an ASUS card that wouldn't connect to the high channels for 5GHz AC, as it turned out it wasn't supported.
All in all, it has been exactly what I needed. I don't need AC1900 speeds, so for 1/3 the price of those cards this works perfectly. At about half the speed of Gigabit, it's more than acceptable. Great setup.
This is a great product. All I can say is that it's structure is well built and size also was't a problem for me, but ai had a full tower. I am guessing it would fit most mid tower cases perfectly fine. It's really fast (wifi and blutooth). I rarely get a loss of coonnection, not even noticeable. The product is well packed for extra protection, and it arrived as promised with not even a dent. Great product from Gigabyte, and would recommend it for anyone that asks for a high speed wifi on a desktop and a product at an excellent price tag.
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