- Feb 7, 2013
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I was frustrated with slow connect speeds on my desktop replacement laptop -- I removed the intel n-130 wifi - pcie chip and ditched my w54g linksys router and got a asus rt ac66u router and updated to latest firmware.... (note that this is Asus RT-AC66U 1750)
I did a bit of research and swapped out the cruddy intel n-130 wifi that came with the laptop with the latest intel dual band 7260AC
MPCIEX_GEN_7260_AC_2x2_HMC_WIN7_64_AC:
"INTEL - NETWORKING 7260.HMWWB.R DUAL BAND WIRELESS AC 7260 2X2"
From my understanding,...the 'R' has something to do with a modification to the Bluetooth portion to make it more reliable or something like that.......
Anyhow I setup the asus rt-ac66u router as default so it has 2 SSID - "asus" 2.4G & "asud_5G" 5G - the router has most latest firmware installed.
But no matter how i set the computer 7260 wifi and intel proset wireless software or the router settings I cant ever connect to 5G. Most of the time I cant even see the SSID of the 5G mac -- and even when i used mixed mode (and attempt connect to anything) I never see any connections speeds above 300Mbs, most of the time its in the 144Mbs range (or lower) - even when literally 3 feet from the asus router. right now im about 8' from the router and only see the 2.4G SSID G/N network and am connected at 144.
trying to figure out what gives, do i need some sort of "dual band" internal antenna? or did i get jipped on this intel 7260 - that i bought online (perhaps its not genuine part??)? Is there some reason my network is crud -- this equipment (asus AC and intel AC) were supposed to be rated pretty good products but - its been total junk and im trying to figure out how to trouble shoot as i dont have another pc that has AC capability....
I can only imagine how difficult it would be for someone never doing this before, but Ive setup a ton of this type of things on different systems. my last system was with 2 wrt54g units running DD-WRT as wireless bridge - one of them connecting to a printer and media server, the other was the primary access point. and that worked ok on G.... but this AC thing is a total hoax or something as even with all this new equipment im either running on N or G and I cant even see the 5G wifi SSID.... ill try my smart TV later tonight and see if it sees the 5G (AC) network...
Does anyone have any suggestions or something i can look into ? what am i missing here...
better laptop antenna that supports dual band? I think ive thought of nearly everything - uninstalled and reinstalled latest intel pro-wireless for the 7260 device, but no AC whatsoever - once in a blue moon it sees "ASUS_5G" ssid - but if i try to connect to it - the computer says it fails and defaults back to the 2.4G "asus" SSID
- frustrated -- im probably just missing something but dont even know how to start debugging this .
Should i just junk the 66 and get the newer Asus RT-AC68U 1900 ???
I did a bit of research and swapped out the cruddy intel n-130 wifi that came with the laptop with the latest intel dual band 7260AC
MPCIEX_GEN_7260_AC_2x2_HMC_WIN7_64_AC:
"INTEL - NETWORKING 7260.HMWWB.R DUAL BAND WIRELESS AC 7260 2X2"
From my understanding,...the 'R' has something to do with a modification to the Bluetooth portion to make it more reliable or something like that.......
Anyhow I setup the asus rt-ac66u router as default so it has 2 SSID - "asus" 2.4G & "asud_5G" 5G - the router has most latest firmware installed.
But no matter how i set the computer 7260 wifi and intel proset wireless software or the router settings I cant ever connect to 5G. Most of the time I cant even see the SSID of the 5G mac -- and even when i used mixed mode (and attempt connect to anything) I never see any connections speeds above 300Mbs, most of the time its in the 144Mbs range (or lower) - even when literally 3 feet from the asus router. right now im about 8' from the router and only see the 2.4G SSID G/N network and am connected at 144.
trying to figure out what gives, do i need some sort of "dual band" internal antenna? or did i get jipped on this intel 7260 - that i bought online (perhaps its not genuine part??)? Is there some reason my network is crud -- this equipment (asus AC and intel AC) were supposed to be rated pretty good products but - its been total junk and im trying to figure out how to trouble shoot as i dont have another pc that has AC capability....
I can only imagine how difficult it would be for someone never doing this before, but Ive setup a ton of this type of things on different systems. my last system was with 2 wrt54g units running DD-WRT as wireless bridge - one of them connecting to a printer and media server, the other was the primary access point. and that worked ok on G.... but this AC thing is a total hoax or something as even with all this new equipment im either running on N or G and I cant even see the 5G wifi SSID.... ill try my smart TV later tonight and see if it sees the 5G (AC) network...
Does anyone have any suggestions or something i can look into ? what am i missing here...
better laptop antenna that supports dual band? I think ive thought of nearly everything - uninstalled and reinstalled latest intel pro-wireless for the 7260 device, but no AC whatsoever - once in a blue moon it sees "ASUS_5G" ssid - but if i try to connect to it - the computer says it fails and defaults back to the 2.4G "asus" SSID
- frustrated -- im probably just missing something but dont even know how to start debugging this .
Should i just junk the 66 and get the newer Asus RT-AC68U 1900 ???
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