PCIE Wifi 7 Card

Easy to install, fast speeds

Very good product

I have built 3 PC for myself and multiple at work. I am a computer technician. I say all that to let you know that when I say don't bother wasting your money or time don't bother. This card has the correct chip intel BE200 however for whatever reason along with everyone else eith this card it will not boot. Not matter what I try. Even on different systems. I even pre installed all the drivers to try and get it to boot. No luck.

Works perfectly with my old i7-7700K CPU and Z170x motherboard. Win11 installed a working set of drivers and I downloaded updated drivers from Intel’s support site. Fedora Linux 41 also auto installs a working set of drivers.

I installed this card in an Intel i7-7700k system. It went in easily. The package includes a small cord for use with an internal BlueTooth antenna. I wasn't using that feature, and did not install the cord. Unlike other reviewers, I had no trouble booting the system after installation. For testing a used three different brands of access points, including an Arvig-supplied router, an aging Orbi RBK853, and a new Deco BE1600. Only the Deco supports WiFi 7. * Windows 10 * I did not use the enclosed CD, but used the Windows driver provided by Windows Update. It seemed to work fine. About 6 feet away from my Deco access point, at 5 GHz, I saw extremely consistent performance about 600 Mbps in either direction. Placing the antenna 2 feet away from the access point, perormance increased to about 1.1 Gbps. The Orbi was consistent at about 300 Mbps. The Arvig was about 20 feet away and transfer varied from about 300-500 Mbps. Windows could not see the 6 GHz channel at all, even when placed 2 feet away from the Deco. Summary. My tests were very limited, because I didn't want to drag a desktop and monitor around the house to check distance. However I conclude that if you don't plan to use 6 GHz, this is a perfectly acceptable card on Windows. It's my uinderstanding that power levels are lower on 6 GHz, so that could be the problem. I'm confused by the details of when, where, and how higher power can be used. It's unclear to me if performance will improve further as WiFi 7 becomes mainstream. * Ubuntu 22.04 * Ubuntu immediately worked with the card, no driver necessary. Using WiFi 6, performance was similar to that on Windows. However Ubuntu did see a very weak 6 GHz channel. At 6 Ghz and 6 feet away, I saw performance at about 800 MHz, improving to 1.5 Gbps at 2 feet. I then updated Ubuntu, and started having trouble, which I blame on the update. After the update, I started to see a lockup that lasted about 30 seconds when I tried switching from 6 Hz to one of the 5 GHz access points. As a result, I could not switch to another AP, and I had to give up testing on Ubuntu. * Summary * As of this date 2024/05/16, it is probably too early to do a meaningful review of WiFi 7 equipment. This card works about as well as you can reasonably expect, except for the 6 MHz band. The problems there could be in the Deco, the card, the antenna, or the drivers. If you are looking for adventure, try this card. Otherwise you probably want to wait until the major laptop vendors have been shipping WiFi 7 for about a year. That should be enough to better reviews on the WiFi 7 tech, and the best equipment compatibility matches.

It's basically plug and play and connectivity is good too

Windows does not boot when this card is installed on my motherboard