Network card upgrade help

Hi,
I need some advice, help regarding my Network card, I have Intel Centrino N105 wireless card in my Acer E1-571, my router supports 300Mbps, do you think that I will benefit by upgrading my card to something that supports 300Mbps or I wouldn't notice anything for normal work. Are any of these a good replacement?
Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6235
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 Plus Bluetooth*
or which any other card will be suitable?
Thanks in advance for all your suggestion.

 

You won't see any benefit of a 7260 unless you own a 802.11ac router. What's more - it doesn't work properly on 2.4GHz band (it does on 5GHz though).

As for an upgrade as such - it's probably a good idea. Any 150mbps card is a low end and that means no only lower throughput but usually inferior range too. Intel 6235 seems like a good idea although you have to be aware of the fact that 6230 had and still has some issues with throughput (similar to those of 7260 but less pronounced)

Intel 6200/6205 would be a safe bet unless you need Bluetooth.

 

Thank you downloads, I'll look for 6200 or 6205.

 

I've been using the 5ghz band on channel 161 exclusively since I got my AC-7260 on June 12,2013.

For the last 3 days I've been giving the 2.4ghz band a shot from the same non line of sight location 21' through 2 cement walls from the R7000 router.

The Windows 8.1.1 WiFi Status doesn't budge from 300Mbps

 

I have got the N6205 card and it's much faster than my previous N105 and feel happy with the performance for £12 :laugh: but I also see my WiFi Status showing only 144Mbps. I have tried different drivers without any luck.

 

The reason this happens is that if your hardware is certified by Wi-Fi Alliance it has to conform to standards meaning when there are other networks on overlapping and/or neighboring channels it reverts from 40MHz channel (effectively using two 20MHz ones) to using one 20MHz channel.

That's not a bug, that's a feature

 

Thanks downloads for the help, accidently I have read one of your posts and if I hadn't, I'll still be using N105 which actually didn't give any problems but slightly slower

 

You can try to force 40MHz on certain routers and if you can't go that way - you may be able to change a channel to one that will allow 300mbps connection to function properly.

 

At last it shows up 300mbps after my daughter switched off her laptop

 

I'd still try doing an actual file transfer with a stopwatch in hand to get a good measure of the actual throughput you get.

 

Hi tijo,
I tried downloading 457.17MB file and completed in 6min 37secs, I have no record of previous card, normally I don't download many files but laptop seems very fast with this card :smile:

 

I'm guessing you have downloaded the file from the Internet for this test because the throughput is rather low.
You'd have to transfer a file from another computer on LAN (a wired one) to max out your wifi.