Intel Wireless-N 7260 (7260HMW AN) Intel® Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 Plus Bluetooth 4.0

First, note that this is a half minicard: one or two reviewers mention buying without realising this. If in doubt, check your motherboard! (You can by an adapter, however...)I've now bought two of these - one to replace the slow single band card in my laptop - Asus N550JV - and the other for a desktop Dell XPS 8300. (Most desktops have a full size card - the Dell XPS doesn't.)On both machines and only using 2.4GHz there was a significant increase in speed, reliability and crucially for me range. The laptop now picks up the network from the bottom of our garden, and the connection speed when playing Star Wars the Old Republic is better. 5GHz is of course even faster, but the range is much shorter.Both were comparatively easy to install. After taking the ten screws (!) out to remove the back of the Asus, the existing card was easy to remove and the replacement popped into the slot and the two existing antennae clipped on without fuss. On powering up, the laptop recognised the card and installed the drivers automatically - although I did check that the most recent drivers both for Bluetooth and for wi-fi had been installed.The back of the Dell opens easily with one screw. The card is harder to get out, as the motherboard is quite cramped, but I managed it by using a plastic ballpoint pen to open one clip and my finger for the other. The Dell did not automatically install the drivers, so I downloaded them onto a pen drive and manually installed them through Device Manager. So if you only have one computer in the house, download the drivers from the Intel site first - you need of course to know the version of Windows you are using and whether it is 32 or 64-bit.So, an easy upgrade for me. Five stars

Definitely, A MONSTAAA!!!I decided to buy this little monster in order to replace my old crappy laptop's wireless adapter and I did the best thing I could do for my old, but still strong ASUS (X54HY-SX030D).At first, I was a bit reluctant as I'd done some research and I found out that it could be incompatible with some laptops. But I took the risk and now I'm among one of the happiest tech geeks - so, now, guys for those of you who still have an old K54 or X54 laptop, it works flawlessly.The Wi-Fi's signal has improved by a little edge - the most important factor here is the router/access point, the speeds went through the roof, but most importantly the connection is A LOT more stable than it used to be - no drops, more constant speed and reduced latency.In addition to all of these super benefits, you get Bluetooth 4.0 LE which is a lovely pleasure to use in combination with an excellent pair of wireless headphones - mine is Ausdom M05. Now, I can walk around my room with my headphones on without having to worry about an annoying wire hanging around

PRO's:I fitted this to my 2010 HP DV6 laptop as I wanted to install WIN 10 but the installed Ralink card is not supported. I have the added bonus of 5.0Ghz WiFi as well as the original 2.4Ghz and a better Bluetooth signal too. The physical installation was simple but the software requires a leap of faith with the guys at bios-mod.com who post a "hacked" bios update that takes care of the "white list" problem that many manufactures force on their customers. My laptop is well out of warranty anyway but it was simply downloading a file and double clicking a few times, a reboot and install of the new Intel drivers, (make sure you download them BEFORE you swap the cards out,) and reconnect to your BT devices and WiFi. This should work for all HP laptops as there is a new Bios version for most on there.CON's;A very brief message stating that my laptop "contains unsupported hardware" now flashes up on boot for a split second before Windows loads but this was expected and doesn't affect the running of the machine. My four year old insisted on showing me her entire collection of My Little Pony's and assisting me install the card so the fixing screws were dropped in to the case several times.-DO NOT do this with the power plugged in and the battery in place.