Tweaker un1ty has after the necessary sorting out a wi-fi-ac-3×3-network card in Clevo laptop to the talk. Laptops with those cards are slow and the user had to include an inf-file of a full-size Asus-network adapter to use.
Laptops with wi-fi-n-3×3 cards there are; Intel provides its network card Centrino Ultimate-N 6300. Models with a 3×3-antenneopstelling and support for wi-fi-ac, there are a lot less. To say that ‘ever-growing hunger for wireless bandwidth to satisfy, went tweaker un1ty looking for a wi-fi-ac-3×3-network card to Clevo W350STQ to upgrade.
In the Pricewatch he came no further than the Asus PCE-AC68, which is not determined in a laptop fits, and dongles with which specifications are also not yet, but after some searching, he came off at the BCM943460 of Broadcom, who meet the stipulated requirements. After ordering from AliExpress and reception turned out, other than un1ty thought to a full-length mini-pci-e-card. “So I had some plastic cut away from the body, but it had the keyboard a little while,” said the user.
Fortunately for him, there was enough space in the msata slot, where the card now, in the words of the tweaker ‘pretty neat, especially since these are actually not even supposed to fit in the case. The next problem was to get the correct drivers. “Until I spontaneously felt prompted. The Asus PCE-AC68 uses broadcom 3×3-chip.” He found a driver version from which the inf file to extract it and after the install it recognized the Clevo laptop the adapter as an Asus PCE-AC68.
Un1ty has the bandwidth not yet able to test it with a 3×3-ac-router. In combination with a 2×2-ac access point retrieves the laptop 600Mbit/s on 5GHz, but that did the system in combination with the old Centrino 2×2 AC 7260/7265 card. “Though it seems to be the upload with this card a lot more stable,” says the user. “But the hidden factors are still too large.”
