Wireless N mini PCI-E card

[lsutiger]

Which wireless N cards are compatible with V12.04? Anyone had any luck with this one?

[weatherman2]

I've not yet used the 7260, but I don't have any 802.11ac gear yet. I've had great luck with the Intel 6235 card in 12.04, though - dual band 2x2 plus bluetooth.

[lsutiger]

Thanks! Plug-n-play with that card? And are you getting the advertised bandwidth?

[weatherman2]

I've never gotten the "advertised bandwidth" on any wireless device. With the 6235-N card, in theory you can get up to 300Mbps with a 40Mhz double channel. I've never gotten anything close - sustained bandwidth, anyway - to that with any 802.11n setup. Most most people don't. I can get 80Mbps to 100Mbps on a good day, with a good router using 5GHZ. Some people claim to do better, but I've never heard of anyone getting anything close to 300Mbps. (I don't mean the supposed link speed my wireless card says it has with the access point - I mean, measured bandwidth as in download or upload speed.)