Killer 1525 802.11AC adapter?

Anyone know where to buy a Killer 1525 802.11AC adapter? I've used it in the MSI GT72 and GS60 laptops for reviews, and it is so solid compared with Intel 7260. I wouldn't mind buying one for my Sager laptop but it doesn't seem to be available anywhere.

 

Been looking around for one as well with no luck. I might try contacting manufacturers that offer it in their laptops and seeing if I can just buy one from their parts department. I'll let you know if that works for me or not.

 

I realize most vendors or resellers of laptops don't like to sell parts. It seems like some niche products they could make some easy money, with a decent markup on stuff like this. I would easily pay $40-50 for this card.

 

I would shell out $100+ for this card. Anything to make my laptop usable again.

 

The Intel AC-7265NGWG that is M.2 form factor should be available soon.

Mouser Electronics informs me they should be available to ship to customers on or about December 1st.

7265.NGWG Intel | Mouser

M.2 (NGFF) to Mini PCI-E Adapter
M 2 NGFF to Mini PCI E Adapter Support M 2 Socket Ssic Based WWAN Module | eBay

 

Try Gentechpc, I was going to buy one from Joyce @ Gentechpc but cancelled the order after I return the P35X back to OC.UK.


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That's Intel not Killer

 

No thanks, I'll never put an intel wifi card in my computer again.

 

I posted that due to it being very hard to locate an M.2 Killer N1525

I'll be getting one to test drive.

Hopefully Intel got the bugs out that plague many AC-7260 cards.

If I thought the same way about brands of hardware and software I had an issue with since I started building my own rigs or just replacing parts in the early 90s I wouldn't have any parts now to build anything.

Move on!

 

Well when a manufacturer keeps selling a obviously defect piece of hardware with no regards to user complaints, and not even admitting there is a problem, I will not buy a product in that line again.
They make remarkable CPU's so I'm not saying I'll drop intel alltogether.

Honestly, what intel should do to redeem themselves is offer a free upgrade to a working wifi card for all affected laptops.

 

I had 3 AC-7260 cards in 3 different computers.(Now 2)

The AC-7260 desktop model in a pre Sandy Bridge PC works great with driver 17.0.6.The card is dated 06/14

An AC-7260 mini pcie in an MSI GT780DX Sandy Bridge notebook with driver 17.0.6 works great.The card is from the 1st release bath a year and a half ago.

The M.2 AC-7260NGW that was stock in an MSI GS60 notebook that had a few issues with all driver versions I tried was replaced with a Killer N1525.
The Killer N1525 doesn't have any wifi issues but had a Bluetooth issue with the newest 3.0.0.419 driver.Going back to Bluetooth driver 3.0.0.400 solved the issue.

I have an M.2 AC-7265 on order and will test it in the GS60 when it arrives for disconnect and sleep issues that I experienced with the M.2 AC-7260NGW

BTW,my router is a Netgear R7000 with latest firmware that's about 20' from the notebooks and about 30' from the desktop going through 2 sheet rock walls.

I use only the 5ghz band for the computers while the smartphones are on the 2.4ghz band

 

I have to agree in a big way...I had the Intel 5300, 6330 (to replace the 5300), and just tried the 7260 AC and they all suffered from very poor reception and frequent disconnects whereas my Killer 1103 never has any issues or disconnects. I thought it finally did after 3-4 years but it ended up just being an issue with my computer.

 

I just bought my killer 1525 card here - http://powernotebooks.com/category.php?catId=16

I have a Dell XPS M1530 laptop - and also bought a M.2 (NGFF) to Mini PCI-E Adapter and cross my fingers that it works as expected.

 

I tried an M.2 adapter in a desktop that has an Intel Desktop AC-7260 and in an MSI GT780DX notebook.

If your notebook has mini pcie wireless card slot it,in all likelyhood it also has U.FL type antenna wire connectors that don't fit on M.2 type wireless cards.M.2 wireless cards use the much smaller MHF4 antenna wire connectors

If you are buying the card from power notebooks you should ask if they have antennas that fit the card.

Aside from that I experienced a performance hit using the adapter.

 

What sort of performance hit did you see? How was it measured etc.?
Looking at getting an adapter for an itx build I have so I can use a Wave 2 802.11ac card instead of the older first-gen but worried about the performance?

 

It was over 50%

 

Oh wow, it must have been the antenna you purchased and used, I've since found other threads for various machines where people used the adapters and not reporting any performance issues. That's only thing I can think of. If you'd said like 5-15% that I can guess would be harder to judge but 50+% people would notice.

These had been people who's netbook, tablet or notebook that took the smaller style antenna but only used mini PCI-E and wanted to upgrade to AC but no such card with that combo exist except for some random N cards.

A few used antenna adapters on different cards (like original 7260ac) and a few tried these adapters and using the mini PCI-E to M.2 and got M.2 cards and that resulted in the best performance.
In my case this is going to be for an itx build so I can just replace the entire antenna cable (the antenna is separate and screws onto).

I was trying to understand how this would take a hit. The adapter isn't adding much distance to the leads and the manufactures makes other adapters for SSD's with no noticeable performance hit. I did find various people though using ebay or other antenna they purchased and having poor performance.

 

The adapter I have didn't fit in my notebook well and I don't have the correct antennas for the notebook so I tested in an Intel desktop adapter that originally had an AC-7260 mini pci-e

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us...-band-wireless-ac-7260-bluetooth-desktop.html

Mini Pcie to M2
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JGR3ULO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00

The MHF4 antennas were purchased from Mouser Electronics
http://www.mouser.com/Passive-Components/Antennas/_/N-8w0fa?Keyword=IPEX+MHF4&FS=True

I tried both an N1525 and an AC-7265 in the adapter.The N1525 did not fair as well as the AC-7265 in the adapter.The AC-7265 lost between 15% and 25% if I remember correctly.

The newest drivers available in late 2014 were used in the tests.