New Wi-Fi 7 Intel BE200 Bluetooth 5.4 WiFi Card BE200NGW 2.4/5/ 6 GHz 5.8 Gbps for Windows 11 PC Laptop

I just upgraded all the WiFi chips in my devices. I have not yet upgraded the router to WiFi 7 but will be soon. For now I'm on an Asus WiFi 6 Router with 2.4GHz and 5GHz Bands. The BE200 WILL WORK ON ANY INTEL CPU AS LONG AS YOU HAVE a M.2 SLOT FOR EXPANSION - DEVICE MANAGER DOESN'T LIE!!!***Even If all you have is some old router i would highly suggest getting this BE200 because your range/reception will increase drastically thus giving you faster speeds***The 3 Devices i have that have an actual M.2 Slot got the Intel BE200. The other 2 devices that have PCIE for expansion got the MPE-AXE3000H which has the AX210 Intel Wifi 6e Card inside. It can see all channels ( 2.4, 5, and 6GHz) It's basically a hack card that Intel released with a M.2 Card that's inside a PCIE Adapter. That's as far as you can take older devices with only PCIE and no M.2 for expansion. Who knows, maybe Intel will end up doing the same for the BE200Having said that. I was impressed with the AX210 which 5x'd my speeds and got a nice range increase compared to whatever WiFi cards they were using in 2011 - Massive upgrade and didn't think it could get much better. Based on reviews of the BE200 not working with anything prior to 12th Gen Intel CPU's i Bought a Couple of straight up M.2 AX210 Cards and a couple of the BE200 cards in case the BE200 didn't work with my 7th and 8th Gen Mobile Intel CPU's. Much to my surprise the BE200 Worked PERFECTLY with my older Intel CPU's. I first tried the BE200 to upgrade my M.2 Devices and WOW - it destroys the AX210. I'm easily getting 2-3 times the performance.Let me tell you The Range and Bandwidth increase is In Your Face and Obvious! My speeds 4-5x'd upgrading from the Intel AC 9650 which was the standard around 2017. I'm getting Full Speeds Wirelessly on the 5GHz channel that I am getting on a PC Directly wired to the router through ethernet.M.2 Devices- Dell Inspiron Laptop with 8th Gen Intel i5 (4 Core 8 Thread) CPU and 16GB Ram- Zotac Zbox Mini PC with 7th Gen Intel i5 ( 2 Core 4 Thread) CPU and 32GB Ram- The main office PC has an AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8 Core CPU with 32GB Ram and is directly wired to the router. The BE200 is said not to work with AMD CPU's so i didn't even try. For Now it has an AX210 PCIE Card in it that gets 2.5MB/s transfer speeds. However, This PCIE adapter: MSI Herald-BE WI-FI 7 MAX w/ Bluetooth 5.4 has a BE Card in it and is supposed to work with AMD Desktops: https://www.amazon.com/Herald-BE-802-11BE-Bluetooth-Multi-Link-Operation-Technology/dp/B0DFHRYRH6?th=1PCIE DEVICES- Zotac Zbox Mini PC with 4th Gen Intel i7 (4 Core 8 Thread) CPU and 16GB Ram- Zotac Zbox Mini PC with 4th Gen Intel i5 (Straight 4 Core 4 Thread) CPU and 16GB Ram

I purchased a SFF PC a year ago with WIFI6E and considered hard wiring for a speed boost. The PC is not in a convenient spot for ethernet so I decided maybe now is the time to make the switch to WIFI 7. Simply pop the old card and connect the antennas to the new card and that was it since I was upgrading from an Intel WIFI 6E card.I only recommend adding this card to devices that already support WIFI6E if the antenna cables are reused. WIFI6E introduced the 6Ghz WIFI band so if you attempt to upgrade from WIFI6 or older, the antenna might not handle 6GHz making the upgrade a waste of time/$.To maximize speed you need to use a 320MHz channel width. 320MHz width was added with WIFI7 and not all access points support such a high channel width. I'm using this card with Ubiquiti WIFI 7 access points set to 320MHz and seeing speeds in excess of 1Gbps ethernet.

The card worked perfectly in the laptop.

Great speeds compared to my previous network card. I had to wait for a WiFi 7 gateway to write my review and I have to say I do love the greater speeds and priority I receive with this compared to my other devices with older network cards. I also don’t experience issues with traffic like I did previous with multiple devices online at the same time.

When I buy a 6GHz-capable 802.11be wifi module, I expect it to do two things: (1) function as an AP (i.e. as a transmitter of a wifi network) (2) function as a client (i.e. connect to an existing wifi network). This module will only do #2. The functionality for #1 in the 6GHz band has been disabled by the manufacturer (check iw list to confirm - there are "no-IR" flags against every 6GHz channel). Why would they do this? 6GHz wifi is legal and approved in the United States and the card I received is locked to the US region. Did they fall out with the FCC somewhere in the approval process? Or did they just think it's OK to silently remove this functionality? Either way, it's not right that there's no warning of this very significant limitation in the product description. I returned it.

Popped in a Windows 10 laptop and loaded instantly. Easy. Thanks Intel!

Wifi in my laptop (Acer Predator Helios 16 w/4070) range seemed terrible. Speed next to router (Netgear Nighthawk) was nearly 1gb while about 15 feet away in the next room was 300mb or less. I don't recall what the speeds are now but I do recall my disappointment when I ran some tests after installation. Works fine but wasn't really any better than the one that came with the PC.

installed this in my 2 year old Dell 5510, I5 laptop. Immediately received 6G network, and speeds are now twice of what I was getting on 5G. Would recommend this to anyone who has access to Wifi 6 or later router. I will be purchasing another one for my Alienware laptop.