Upgrading Wi-Fi Card to Intel AC 9260

[yeeeeman]

2.4 Ghz Wifi, 4 m distance, same condition with BT speaker connected on internet radio.

[yeeeeman]

So, just a short summary:

- on 5Ghz you are safe with this card, you can do BT also and the speeds are maxed out and stable;

- on 2.4Ghz also, in standalone WiFi, speeds are decent.

- on WiFi + BT on 2.4 Ghz, things get a bit slower, which is expected since you have both cores running on the same frequency. As you can see, on upload, speed is lower since BT is also doing a kind of upload, so there is some concurrency there.

- all tests were done a on HP Pavilion 15 ak001nq. Router is Asus RT-N53 which supports up to 11n WiFi. Router is ~ 4m distance from laptop. Moving the laptop next to the router doesn't gain any speed. Original card is a Broadcom 1x1 card, which gets ~ 40mbps on the 2.4Ghz connection compared to 56mbps of Intel.