I was looking for a supported network adapter. I have an
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 AGN which was the same dimensions as my original
adapter in my Asus N61Jq-B2 laptop with Windows 7. The reason I switched was
because mine had only one antenna and could get only 50 Mbps internet speed. I
wanted to get at least 100 Mbps. I get over 200 Mbps wired. I think Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6250 is still
supported, but I don’t know for how long and I don’t know if it would have the
same dimensions. I would appreciate any help in this matter. I want to be sure
I can stay supported with updating the drivers.

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 Network Speed

Intel wireless dual band ac-3168 Wireless not working properly with HP Pavilion 15-cc023cl

Intel dual band-ac 3160 Connection Problem

I have these kinds of problems on my laptop.
I can solve this by manually set `Channel Width` to `40 Mhz` on my routers configuration page.(No changes to `AC 3168` configuration)

There's only two `Auto` and `20 Mhz` option on AC 3168 Configuration for `Channel Width`, I know that.
But I can't handle this when I have no permission because `AC 3168` doesn't handle this right way I think.

I think you guys should offer force `40 Mhz` channel width option or something.

How can I have full speed with your chip when I have no permission to AP, AP configuration in this condition???

Client: Intel AC 7260 or AC 3160, Windows 10 64-bit, driver 18.33.7.2 (05.04.2017) or 18.33.6.2 (19.02.2017 Windows default).

WiFi router: Mikrotik hAP AC-lite (RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC).

Wifi 802.11AC mode in use.

Connect WiFi where is a good signal strength (-55dBm or better).

Open WiFi router WebFig->Registration http://192.168.88.1/webfig/#Wireless.Registration

Observe Rx (upload) rate (channel width). It is 80MHz.

Run speedtest.net to check upload speed. In my case it is > 90Mbps.

Move the client to poor conditions where signal strength -75dBm or worse.

Wait about 1,,,2min until upload channel width is stable 20MHz.

Go back to position where is a good signal strength.

Upload channel width stays 20MHz and Speedtest shows 52Mbps.

Only way to get upload channel width back 80MHz is to reconnect to the WiFi.network.

Same situation with different computers, and with Windows 8.1 64-bit.

No such a situation with Windows10 phone equiped with WiFi chip AR6320. Upload channel width returns to 80MHz.

Download channel (Tx on router side) width also returns to 80MHz as expected.

See screenshots.

So upload channel width does not return to 80MHz as expected.

The router manufacturer (MikroTik) says that channel width is chosen by client device.

Quetion: is it a bug in the Intel WiFi adapter driver?

Hi All,

I'm observing few of the PC's in my client network is trying to communicate wServoceith a Botnet IP - 208.91.197.27 which belongs to Confluence Networks Inc (US).

When I check with the Process and source of the traffic, surprisingly I found out that, it is generating from the location Intel PROSet/Wireless Zero Configure Service/ZeroConfigService.exe.

I don't know why it is trying to connect to an external IP.

Have anyone of you observed this in your environment, can anyone help me to find out a solution for this?

Thanks in Advance,

Kiran Vyas

I am looking to configure the advanced adapter settings for the wireless 8260 adapters and deploy to several systems.

Here is what I have done:

• I have created a wireless profile on a test machine with all the settings and saved it - size is 3KB.
• Next I used the Intel wireless proset tool to create a package to include the advanced NIC settings. ( I click on Administer -> create a new package -> imported the profile-> included the advanced settings)
• I save the package - then I click "Apply to this computer". Or I can even double click on the saved package.
• it applies three out of the four settings that I had configured - HT mode, Roaming aggressivness, Adhoc QOS mode, but, the Preferred band is not applied.

Preferred band, I believe is a per SSID setting - we have to create a profile, include it in there and then import this profile in the package? Do we know why the preferred band setting is not changed? Or is there a different way to apply the preferred band setting?

I did read a previous post about setting the preferred band to 5Gz redirecting to a link to create a profile and include it in there -I followed the steps but couldnt get it working - may be something I did wrong?

Appreciate your help. Thanks.

I recently got a HP Envy laptop that came with the AC-7265 wireless adapter.  Let me just say I have exchanged my laptop 4 different times and they all exhibit the same issue, so this is definitely not an isolated hardware issue.  Laptop is running Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit (version 1703).

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Laptop is currently running the latest driver version from Windows.

4/12/2017

19.51.1.1

Two issues I have encountered with this driver (version 19.51.1.1).

1) During heavy wireless traffic, such as having multiple tabs of YouTube videos playing at the same time, the network driver would crash and the following errors logged in event viewer:

Error 6/18/2017 10:51:53 PM Netwtw04 5007 None

Error 6/18/2017 10:51:53 PM Netwtw04 5007 None

Error 6/17/2017 9:32:24 PM Netwtw04 5007 None

Error 6/17/2017 9:32:24 PM Netwtw04 5007 None

Error 6/11/2017 9:24:30 PM Netwtw04 5007 None

The details of the errors are as follow:

5007 - TX/CMD timeout (TfdQueue hanged)

When that occurs, every single device on my network would drop off for about 30 seconds.  That issue goes away when I disable WMM on my router (but that causes other performance issue so I need it enabled).

2) The second issue is it would cause my laptop to completely freeze up every other day, and requires a forced shutdown by holding down the power button.  Here are the event logs when that occurs.

Critical 6/18/2017 9:20:30 PM Kernel-Power 41 (63)

Critical 6/16/2017 12:21:03 PM Kernel-Power 41 (63)

Critical 6/15/2017 12:12:48 AM Kernel-Power 41 (63)

Critical 6/14/2017 9:09:19 PM Kernel-Power 41 (63)

Critical 6/11/2017 5:35:06 PM Kernel-Power 41 (63)

The only workaround for the above issues is to changed HT Mode from "VHT Mode" to "HT Mode".  But that also limits my connection speed to 300Mbps (instead of the 866Mbps I can have with VHT Mode).

=================================================================================================================

So the next thing I did was downgrade the driver version back to the original version that came with the laptop:

7/14/2016

19.1.0.4

With this version, the 1st issue goes away (dropping my network during heavy traffic) but the 2nd issue remains (lockup issues).  Again, if I change the HT Mode from "VHT Mode" to "HT Mode", the issue goes away.

=================================================================================================================

I have spent a lot of time testing the different versions of drivers under different scenarios to arrive to the above findings.  Something definitely changed between version 19.1.0.4 and 19.51.1.1 that cause the wireless adapter to crash under heavy traffic and cause the 5007 - TX/CMD timeout error.  And the VHT Mode, when enabled, causes my laptop to freeze in both versions mentioned above.  The workaround for both versions is to downgrade to HT Mode, which is something I don't want to do as it lowers my connection speed.

As I mentioned in the beginning, I have already exchanged the laptop 4 times at Best Buy and the same issue remained, so it's definitely not a hardware issue, but a driver issue.

I have a NUC D54250WYKH with the Intel WiFi Bluetooth AC-7260 that appears to not be compatible with the Microsoft Designer Keyboard and Mouse - they don't always wake up.

Event viewer has messages like this: The local adapter does not support an important Low Energy controller state to support peripheral mode.  The minimum required supported state mask is 0x491f7fffff, got 0x1fffffff.  Low Energy peripheral role functionality will not be available.

Which NEWER Intel AC cards are compatible with D54250WYKH?

I have suffering from Intel Wireless AC 7260 Adapter reset issues in a Gigabyte P35W v4 running Windows 10 Anniversary Update Edition with latest updates.

Wireless networking will disappear altogether randomly, I usually get a failure at least once a day.

The sequence of events is always the same in the system event log:

1.     2 x Event Source = NETwNb64, Event ID = 5007, (Description is not useful as the associated resource from the event log message is not correctly installed).

2.     1 x Event Source = NDIS, Event ID = 10400 (The network interface "Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260" has begun resetting).

3.     2 x Event Source = NETwNb64, Event ID = 5032, (Description is not useful as the associated resource from the event log message is not correctly installed).

4.     Repeat steps 2 & 3 six times.

5.     1 x Event Source = WLAN-AutoConfig, Event ID = 4003 (WLAN AutoConfig detected limit connectivity, performing Reset/Recover.adapter.  Code: 1 0xC 0x4)

6.     1 x Event Source = WLAN-AutoConfig, Event ID = 4003 (WLAN AutoConfig detected limit connectivity, performing Reset/Recover.adapter.  Code: 2 0xDEADDEED 0xEEEC)

At the end of this all wireless networking is unrecoverable, the wireless adapter appears disabled and will not re-enable in Network Connections.

This problem started happening about two months ago. I would not know the exact Intel Proset Wireless version of software the problem may have initially occurred with.

Since then I have tried various Intel Proset Wireless Versions 18.32, 18.33, 18.40.4 and19.20.3 which all produce the same issue.

I have also tried it without Proset software using Windows 10 to auto update the driver which gives me the WLAN driver version 18.33.5.1 (the one that ships with Proset 19.20.3).

The most significant issue I am aware of is the enablement of IPv6 on my home network router which will have occured about 2 months ago (don't know the exact timing).

I wonder if IPv6 in Windows 10 with these drivers is causing some kind of problem.

I have not experimented with the 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' option yet. This is what I am moving on to for diagnosis.

Otherwise it will be get a replacement wireless USB adapter for the Laptop and disable the internal wireless adapter.

Hello everyone, I have a laptop using the wireless AC 3165 network card, and I have successfully updated it to the newest version, 19.51.5.3 (Driver date 8/3/2017), this has fixed many problems for me, but a few problems still linger. If anyone has any insight that would be appreciated.

Issues:

• WiFi performance stops and starts (without the WiFi disconnecting), ranging from 2MB/s to 25KB/s
• If anyone else is using WiFi actively, the entire WiFi network goes down, WiFi speeds drop to 0KB/s for everyone but wired internet connectivity stays unchanged.
  • Once I disconnect from the home WiFi network, everyone else's speeds shoot back up to normal

Fixes Tried:

• Reformatting my computer
• Uninstalling driver, reinstalling manually
• Unchecked "Allow computer to turn this device off to save power" in Device Manager
• Wireless Adapter Power Saving set to "Maximum Performance" in all power schemes
• Connecting to 2.4GHz/5GHz WiFi
• Resetting Wireless Router
• Two WLAN reports attached below, both show the network being disconnected by the driver
• Resetting TCP/IP by netsh int/winsock reset commands

Some Info about my setup:

• Laptop: Jumper EZBook 3 Plus
  • I've talked to others who have the same laptop I do, they have poor WiFi range, but nothing so severe as the entire WiFi network going down
• Router: D-Link DIR-810L Wireless AC
• 100MBPs down, 10 MBPs up cable internet
• Wireless driver U-APSD Support is disabled
• Wireless driver

We have an issue with the latest intel wireless drivers (v19.71.1.1) and need to install a wireless driver from v19.20.3.  The current installer will not allow an older version to be installed (Wireless_v19.20.3_PROset64_Win10.exe).  Understandable, since the PROset would be v19.20.3.

What I need is a method to export the drivers from the exe "installer" and add them into the Windows 10 driver repository.  Windows 10 requires "signed" drivers so simply exporting the drivers from a Windows 10 device is not possible.  "PNPUtil" can be used if a "signed driver" set can be either exported or downloaded.

Knowns

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Windows 10 Enterprise (x64)

intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260

intel PROset64 v19.71.1.1

Drivers:  v19.71.1.1, v19.70.0.0, v19.60.0.0 (install from v19.71.1.1 EXE).

What I am currently doing is uninstalling all of v19.71.1.1, installing package v19.20.3.4, running the update from Microsoft, updates send the version back to v19.71.1.1, (or force the update from intel "Wireless_v19.71.1_PROset64_Win10.exe") do a driver rollback to v19.70.0.0, then force the driver to v19.20.3.4.  Note:  Drivers included in the v19.20.3 include:  v19.20.3.4 and v19.1.0.4).  At this point, since the PROset software is v19.71.1, Windows update is satisfied that the correct software and driver are correct, no Windows update, no change in driver version.

Sincerely,

Geoff Zieman

Senior Network Engineer

Digitz Computers - Raleigh, NC

...in site at Cardinal Gibbons High School

Hi,

I have been working on the implementation of 802.11k (along with 802.11v and 802.11r) in a Cisco wireless infrastructure. Our fleet is mainly Dell Latitude with intel wireless chipset 8260.

Running few tests and some packet captures, it seems that the Intel implementation of 802.11k is quite inefficient.

If the wireless clients do support 802.11k standard, trigger 802.11k reports from the WiFi infrastructure, it is done in a way that is inefficient and doesn't trigger a useful 802.11k report from the infrastructure.

The big gap missed out by the intel driver seems to reside in the 802.11k "neighbor report request" and the non specification of the SSID the client is on.

The consequence of this miss out is the WiFi Access Point replying an 802.11k "neighbor report response" of ANY nearby antennas on ANY SSID. Result being the very same Access Point (where the client is already on) sending a neighbor report of its other SSID (having the best signals). Hence making this feature (802.11k) completely useless.

A small improvement in the Intel driver (adding the specification of the SSID the neighbor report should report to) should make this 802.11k standard functional and add a big quality to the wireless driver.

I am happy to provide more details (packet captures...) or any help if required.

Infrastructure:

Dell Latitude using Intel Dual Band Wireless -AC 8260 (v19.50.0.11)

HP EliteBook using Intel Dual Band Wireless -AC 8260 (19.71.0.4)

Cisco Controller WLC 5500

Cisco Access Points 1142/3700/3800

Hello World,

In July 2017 Russian authorities have expanded the bandwidth for ac frequency allowed for use by public.

from: •Frequency band: (2400 – 2483,5) or/& (5150 - 5350 & 5650 - 5725) MHz

    To: •Frequency band: (2400 – 2483,5) or/& (5150 - 5350 & 5650 - 5850) MHz

1) When will this be reflected in existing adapter connections? (Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265, 8260, 8265)

2) Is there a special update to be installed or it will happen automatically?

3) How is this update going to happen? (new driver? new firmware? special update?)

4) Do I have to change the exising module\s?

For reference: Intel® DRS — No More Wi-Fi Trouble For International Travelers

Thank you!

Peter

Hi, got following setup:

PC: Beelink AP42 with Wireless-AC 3165.

WIFI: TP-Link Archer C7(LEDE firmware) as hidden AP (channel 36) exclusive for an TP-Link RE450, which is running an AP on Channel 1 and 36 using the hidden AP as upstream.

And here is my problem, while the RE450 channel 36 AP is running, Windows 10 is bluescreening within seconds (~5-10) and is even unable to start or finish install of Windows 10 (If I try a fresh install). As soon as the wireless driver is loaded the system freezes for ~20seconds and drops a DPC_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (at Windows 10 install, it does sometimes a system_thread_exception_not_handled in netwtw04.sys). When I disable the RE450 channel 36 AP, Windows runs fine, I do not see any bluescreens anymore, also Windows 10 install works again. I am also able to connect to the hidden network on channel 36, without any crashes freezes or alike. As soon as I re-enable the RE450 channel 36 AP, the Box freezes again and drops instant bluescreens.

Currently I tried driver 19.2.0.1 (suggested by the vendor) and 19.51.2.4 (suggested by Intel Driver Software Assistant).

May there be a driver error?

I just bought a new notebook and try to setup Wifi hotspot on it, but failed.

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I tried above methods but still failed.

Then I input netsh wlan show drivers in cmd and find that

Hosted network supported  : No

I already tried different version of driver but still failed.

Is Wireless-AC 8260 not support the hosted network function?

With this adapter, is impossible to setup wifi hotspot?

Is there anybody who can tell me if the AC-7265 is able to work with Cisco CCX v4?

Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168 Network Speed

Intel wireless dual band ac-3168 Wireless not working properly with HP Pavilion 15-cc023cl

Intel dual band-ac 3160 Connection Problem

I have these kinds of problems on my laptop.
I can solve this by manually set `Channel Width` to `40 Mhz` on my routers configuration page.(No changes to `AC 3168` configuration)

There's only two `Auto` and `20 Mhz` option on AC 3168 Configuration for `Channel Width`, I know that.
But I can't handle this when I have no permission because `AC 3168` doesn't handle this right way I think.

I think you guys should offer force `40 Mhz` channel width option or something.

How can I have full speed with your chip when I have no permission to AP, AP configuration in this condition???

Hi,

LAN network transfer speed is around 200Mbps when the max it can transfer is 867Mbps. I've used Iperf3 to check the speed and it is only reporting around 250Mbps. Any idea on how to achieve the max speed possible?

-Nay

I was previously running Windows 10 64-bit Anniversary edition 1607 without any problems.

I have an Intel dual band 7260AC for desktop installed with IPv4 and IPv6 enabled, driver version 18.33.6.2 from the wireless proset version 19.50.1

A few days ago, I installed the update to the new Windows 10 Creator edition 1703 and ALL applications, including console programs like 'nslookup' and 'ping', using the wirless network started to become 'not responding' after a few minutes or less.

Once an application 'hung', it could not be terminated from task manager, giving an 'access denied' error when attempting and 'end task'.

If I disabled the Intel 7260AC adapter and using a wired Broadcom ethernet connection, everything worked normally again.

After disabling IPv6 on the Intel 7260AC, the wireless network ALSO worked again without hanging.

Looking at the symptoms, it seems there is a problem with the 18.33.6.2 driver on Windows 10 Creator edition, where an application gets 'hung' inside the system call to the driver, because they can't be terminated anymore.

I didn't see any newer drivers available and was wondering if other people have encountered similar problems or are using a 7260AC adapter with IPv6 enabled normally?

Adri.

Hi there,

My dell latitude laptop has Intel AC-7260 Bluetooth chipset. I have installed the latest driver version 19.70.0.4.

I have trouble make my Apple Airpods connect and work with it. The Bluetooth lists the Airpod and can find it, but can't connect to it and play audio over it. It can't list the BT services by the Airpods.

Can you help with this?

The Airpod is using standard Bluetooth and Audio and it doesn't depend on the device being Apple.

so i've been wanting to change from broadcom to intel. is this possible? if so cna you please guide me to changing to it? thanks