AC 9260 802.11ac M.2 Bluetooth 5.1 Legacy Network Card | WiFi 5 up to 1.73Gbps, MU-MIMO | Compatible with Intel, AMD, Linux & Windows 10/11 | 9260...

Not sure if it was defective or it was something on my part. Yet I stopped and bought a usb dongle

Installed cleanly on Win 10 without having to use a flash drive to install the drivers. It was recognized immediately upon rebooting and I've had no issues since and it's been two weeks since the install. I bought this adapter to replace a Realtek wireless adapter inside my Asus A15 Tuf Gaming laptop. I've owned the laptop less than 3 years, but several months ago my adapter drivers kept disappearing. It wasn't frequent enough to make me think it was a larger issue, but over the last month I was never able to connect to wifi. The laptop acted as if there was no adapter installed. I then updated and reinstalled drivers, reset my modem and router, nothing worked. I even did a clean OS reinstall of Win 10 professionam, same results. I finally came across a post on reddit about the same issue with the same computer. I bought this adapter and all the previous issues are a thing of the past!

I tried everything to get this to work, including downloading drivers and deleting drivers, clearing cmos, even re-installing windows. When it would show up it showed as a Bluetooth adapter only, no wifi. Its plenty possible that for some reason hp hardware would not allow this but that shouldnt be that case and I did make sure it was the same type.

I bought this for a HP 15-ay053nr (Pavilion 15-AY) laptop. -It fit properly, stock antenna was able to plug in and I installed a second antenna into the chassis for MI-MO support Upon first boot: Windows 11 immediately installed the required drivers and automatically connected to my saved network (which was a 2.4Ghz network) connected to 5Ghz and was able to maintain full signal strength for a decent distance. Network speeds were a drastic improvement but doesn't fully utilize the spectrum available from my 5Ghz connection. It's more than fast enough for streaming video from an Xbox console (Ethernet to WiFi router) to Windows 11 (over 5Ghz on this network card) and play a first person shooter game with less input latency than I've seen from some TV's. A+ Ubuntu 22.04 (soon to become LTS after the time of writing this) upon first boot also immediately had the drivers readily available and was usable right away much like Windows 11. As long as you're using an up to date operating system I would recommend this product if you have a need for 5Ghz wifi connection or an upgrade to Bluetooth 5.0 (it seems to maintain a more consistent lower latency connection to Xbox One S/Series S controllers from my previous 4.2 device). Solid product. Not only would I buy this product again but I probably will buy this product again.

Slapped this bad boy in my dell and its working better then before