Intel AX211NGW Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Card M.2: CNVio2, Bluetooth 5.3, Tri Band 2.4/5/6 GHz Network Adapter for Laptop Support Windows 10/11 (64bit) Linux Chrome OS Only Available with Gen Intel 12+ CPU

I ordered this to replace an existing AX201 Wifi card on a Dell G16 notebook, with 13th Gen Intel I9 CPU, running Windows 11. The existing AX201 board kept failing at random times. No physical replacement instructions provided, but it was pretty straight-forward - remove the bottom cover of the laptop, locate the existing wifi board. Use the supplied small screwdriver to remove one screw, remove plastic connector cover over the mini coax connectors, disconnect the 2 connectors (needle nose pliers are helpful here), then pull the wifi board away from the connector. Install the new wifi board and reassemble in reverse order. I restarted in BIOS setup mode (hold F2 while powering up), then made sure the new integrated wifi was enabled. Didn't even have to download new drivers, Windows recognized the new AX211 board and even gave a new message that 6GHz band was now available. So far it has been working great!

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 (basically a 3511 motherboard and body) with a Qualcomm QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Adapter. The max wifi speed is 433 mbps and it's hard to tell which bluetooth I had - either 4.1 or 5.0. Either way the bluetooth reception was pretty limited - about 20 ft (down a hall) before reception was lost. I recently upgraded my internet speed to "up to 1 GB" but my wifi was still barely over 250 mbs. So I wanted to upgrade. It's a bit fuzzy finding the exact replacement but this worked perfectly! It shows up as "Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz" and is bluetooth 5.2. I'm able to go about 40 ft in my house now before reception is lost (lost of turns and corners). Wifi speed is now in the 400s. The adapter itself displays 866 mbs but due to how routers work with wifi I'm not going to hit higher speeds than what I have now.I'm putting these notes here for anyone else looking to upgrade their wifi with this chip. Here's the steps I took that also let my bluetooth devices work properly again:1) Download drivers for new wifi card prior to installation. Do not install yet. URL is in the package with this wifi card.2) Remove backplate3) Disconnect Battery4) Uninstall old wifi-card, noting wifi/bluetooth wire location. They pop on-off and are really finicky.5) Install new card, reinstall wifi/bluetooth6) Reconnect battery7) Turn on PC8) Install drivers for wifi and bluetoothRECOMMENDED: Go to Device Manager, View then "Show hidden devices"1) All grey-out items in Bluetooth and Network Devices should be Uninstalled.2) Bluetooth would be the chip and any older connected devices3) Wifi would be old chip and 2 virtual adaptors (which should uninstall automatically when the wifi card is uninstalled).Screenshots of before and after wifi speeds and old/new chips. The old chip was not as wide and had an additional notch in it. This is a M.2 / PCIe slot.

Lots of people purchase M.2 WiFi cards thinking they just work as-is, or are plug and play. This card is for Intel Processors only! This is because Intel added all the wireless protocol technology into their latest gen CPUs which are accessed via the PCIe lanes in the M.2 slot (there's more technical details I will spare)This card is quite literally just an antenna that has a proprietary microcontroller that tranceives and amplifies the electromagnetic signal to/from the antenna. It translates those signals and **sends them to the CPU** to finish translating the analog signal into the Wifi or Bluetooth protocols which then futher propagate down to what most people just understand as "An internet connection"This card is NOT a WiFi card. It's an Intel microcontroller that has an antenna for WiFi. You need an Intel CPU that has the ability to connect to this device, vice versa.

NOTICE: You may need to adjust your bios settings prior to install.Absolutely increased my connection speed and allows for much faster transfers to/from my NAS devices.Replaced my laptops old wireless card, Intel 3168NGW max connection 433MbpsInstalled this and now I have 2.4GbpsUsing an ASUS GT-AX6000 with 802.11ax / WIFI 6 turned on and 5Ghz connection.I was informed that this would only work with Intel 10th+ generation processor, but it worked perfectly fine on my laptop that is running 7th gen processor - I7-7500U.

Installed this on my mining motherboard as I didn't want to have to drag an ethernet cable across my office. I did have to install the driver manually. It comes with a mini-CD with the drivers, but these days most of us don't have a CD tray (it did push me to buy an external DVD drive for the future since they're so cheap). I was able to download the generic Intel drivers for this chipset and it was immediately detected in Windows.It's working great so far. I did buy a pair of antennas to go with this, although the card will work fine without them if you're not too far from your AP/router. The antennas were a nightmare to clip on but that's with any of them, it's not specific to this product.Remember that this doesn't just fit in any m2 slot; if your motherboard has an M2 slot for you to install an SSD, this won't fit that. This fits into a certain type of M2; most motherboards that have three m2 slots will have the type this requires as the middle slot. An easy way to tell is to look at a "normal" m2 slot an SSD goes into, and see the side the little "tab" is on at the connector. The slot for this will have a "tab" at the opposite side. My point is, just make sure you have the right connector. The Asus Prime Z390-P has it, if you want to google it and see what it looks like.Anyways, yeah, it's been working great. I haven't exactly attempted to push maximum speed out of it as that's not what the machine it's installed in needs, but the quality of the connection is great, I'm connected to a 5Ghz variant and haven't had a disconnection or any lag even a single time.