Intel 3160 Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 Plus Bluetooth IEEE 802.11ac Mini PCI Express 433 Mbps Wireless Data Rates

Pros: It works. Windows 10 found it and installed drivers.

Cons: It doesn't serve me beer.

Pros: I have a five year old Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5136 (AMD Athlon II P340 processor) that originally had an Atheros AR9285 draft-N wifi adapter and this Intel one beats it by miles as the Atheros was not handling the new Time Warner speeds as well as it should. After changing the wifi card in the laptop, it booted up (Whew! Not whitelisted/blacklisted out, thank goodness...), both Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.3 recognized the card with no issues, 433.3 mbps link speed. My copy of Linux Mint has been upgraded to the 4.6.2 kernel as well. Looking to try it on Linux Mint 18 Beta this weekend...

Cons: I have not tried out the Bluetooth on this card yet in Windows; Linux Mint does not see it. I have installed the Intel drivers from their website in Windows.

Overall Review: I bought the card to bring my laptop up to modern wifi AC standards (single stream); this card does this well. Anything else is gravy. Thanks!

Pros: Great little adapter! even better for the price! I was having problems with the realtek adapter that comes with the HP stream 11. replaced it with one of these, works great with kernel 3.13 and kernel 3.16. (don't forget to install linux-firmware package)

Cons: the connections are mislabelled. instead of main and aux, it's really wifi and bluetooth. If you only connect an antenna to "main" bluetooth will not work.

Overall Review: Intel provides firmware for this adapter, but it was already in the linux-firmware package.

Pros: Cheap, AC speeds + bluetooth

Cons: None

Overall Review: For only $16, this was a good upgrade to wireless AC speeds and bluetooth. It has worked very well with my Dell Latitude E6430. I would recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade their wireless card.

Pros: Great card, if your laptop will allow you to upgrade to it.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: If you are a Lenovo user, beware. They have hidden BIOS restrictions that are NOT disclosed anywhere on their site or documentation included with their laptops. They prevent you from upgrading the wireless cards in their laptops (among other things) that are not directly made by them. You will get an error message trying to upgrade your laptop to use this card. So if you are outside of warranty good luck getting things fixed! You will have to risk bricking your laptop to flash the BIOS with hacked versions in order to bypass the whitelist. I recommend avoiding Lenovo at all costs, their scams and lies know no bounds.

Pros: 5Ghz AC wireless - a nice upgrade to older laptops that have 2.4Ghz only. 433Mbps is fairly decent for the form factor with 2 antenna.

Cons: Will not work in every laptop due to laptop manufacture security/whitelisting. May require BIOS modding or electrical taping. In my case see other>>>

Overall Review: My unit did not work "out of the box" in my Acer Aspire 5552g but after some research I found out how to make it work! Some may consider using a "hacked BIOS" in-lieu pin covering to make it work but that comes at a risk of bricking your laptop or getting malware from shady websites. The option I took was electrical tape. All I had to do was tape up pins 46 and 51. This makes perfect sense for my laptop. Pin 46 controls Bluetooth LED which my laptop doesn't have. Pin 51 controls W_Disable#2 which, according to the whitepaper, "Resets the whole BT core while asserted." That one sounds like it's only needed if the module were to be "hot-plugged" but since it's PCI-E and the laptop doesn't support hot-plugging I taped that one off as well. I'm probably wrong about that but it works for me so far. To each their own! Taping pin 51 may be unnecessary but it works and this whole experiment took me about 2 hours so I'm happy with it as is :) FYI, pins 36 and 38 control the BT USB. If you need to disable BT from the module those are the pins to tape.

Pros: Wifi works great in Windows and Linux Bluetooth works great in Windows No additional driver required for Linux Mint

Cons: None

Overall Review: Had to Download Windows driver using different computer. Download available here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/75442/Intel-Dual-Band-Wireless-AC-3160

Pros: Windows 7 on HP 15 laptop - two screws and remove the small panel on bottom and one more screw to remove the old wifi adapter. Install took 5 minutes, powered up laptop and windows instantly recognized the new AC adapter and I connected to my router. WiFi speeds are now over 100mbps, up from around 80mbps with the old N adapter. Highly recommended, especially if you upgrade to a new AC router with multi-band. For $17 delivered how are you going to lose?

Cons: NA - none that I can see.

Overall Review: Highly recommend if you are using an AC multi-band router.