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    Need a suggestion for a PCI Express Wireless Card compatible with Windows 10

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by JWBlue, Mar 16, 2019.

  1. JWBlue

    JWBlue Notebook Deity

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    No Bluetooth. I know I can disable Bluetooth in Windows but do not want to use that option.

    Preferably Intel.
     
    JWBlue, Mar 16, 2019
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  2. Starlight5

    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    @JWBlue

    This plus this.

    If you're looking for a laptop card, just cover USB pins of any card, be it m.2 or miniPCIe, with electrical tape - and voila, no Bluetooth. Also, a lot of devices allow to disable Bluetooth in BIOS (if they use laptop WLAN cards).
     
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  3. BlameTheEx

    BlameTheEx Notebook Geek

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    You won't save anything by not having bluetooth. Just eliminate a lot of good cheap cards, while not eliminating a lot of bad cheap cards.

    But the thing you haven't mention is what laptop your card is going into. Be very sure that the laptop will allow it. I would suggest checking the manufacturers model specific forum.

    Current vote would be for an Intel 9260 which is future proof and inexpensive. It has bluetooth 5 in it, which in future might well have very different uses to what has gone before. Buy it, disable it, and in a year or three you may be very grateful for the option. You could save...well, I dunno, perhaps as much as £5 by going for a 7260. Still capable of handling everything it is likely to get right now, still bluetooth, but without the future proof.
     
    BlameTheEx, Mar 26, 2019
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