Anyone put an Intel 7260HMW 802.11ac MiniPCIe card in their Dell Latitude E6x20 or E6x30?

On 802.11n networks you might see a decrease in performance. I'm not sure if you can connect past 130 mbps if you only have two antennas? In any case you can't get the 450 mbps available on the fastest networks.
(On 802.11ac networks, it will still be faster than 802.11n even with just two antennas.)

i don't think the stock Windows bluetooth stack does audio?

 

Each stream (or antenna) on wireless N nets you a link rate of 150 Mbps, so 1x1 is 150 Mbps 2x2 is 300 Mbps, 3x3 is 450 Mbps

 

I installed this bluetooth driver from dell:

Driver Details | Dell US

It detects Intel bluetooth 4.0 and names the bluetooth that in device manager. There are no yellow exclamation points in device manager. I can't, however, connect any bluetooth devices.

 

I would be fine with just a Bluetooth mouse. Maybe I'll give it a shot in my E6220 later this week. Funny that it didn't work on my E6430 with the mouse. Did a fresh Windows install and could never get the mouse to connect. It would flash the pairing LEDs, the computer would find it, say it was connected....but the pairing LED sequence would never go off.

 

Here's what shows up in device manager.

 

Well, obviously, you have a missing driver component.

 

Yeah. I'm trying to decide whether to keep it. Do you think it'll be fixed anytime soon?

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Good news. I got a E6230 upgrade. I put in the AC7260. I had the same problem with the peripheral devices. I installed the driver for the Latitude E7240 and it worked. Now, Bluetooth works perfectly.

Edit: I rebooted and it lost the Microsoft Bluetooth enumerator. Now, I can't install any Bluetooth devices at all. If you uninstall, it goes back to just working with the mouse and not audio.

 

Did you see the Bluetooth app on there?

Dell Driver
Dell Bluetooth App

 

My Bluetooth mouse works after a reboot.....but I can't see to connect over 144mbit.....on any wireless network.

EDIT
Under the adapter properties I was set to 20Mhz channel width. I set to auto and got to 300mbit. Having an issue connecting to the 5Ghz AC network. I reset my Airport Extreme and try to connect to the 5Ghz network, it will try, fail and then stop showing up. Won't show up on any device. Sounds more like a base station issue than laptop at this point.

I'm just stoked my Bluetooth works. Nothing worse than having a tech come and work on your computer and not put a part back in that you rely on! Still fighting with Dell on this one.