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What AC wireless card?

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gus6464

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Cox just hooked me up with 100Mbps down for less than what I was paying before so it's time to upgrade the wifi in my house. I got a new Motorola 8-channel DOCSIS 3.0 modem and will be using an Aerohive AP230 which has dual aggregate uplinks so max theoretical speed is 1.3Gbps on AC.

My laptop has an Intel 7260 so thinking about getting that for my desktop with the kit you can get to make it PCIE. I have tested the internet connection and I am getting >100Mbps wired in to router so I want a wifi card that can get me the same.
 
What distance? Any interference?

My "old" TP-Link WDR3600 with my "old" Intel 2230, both 2 stream 300Mbps max I could hit roughly 200Mbps in the same room.

That is way over what your internet connection can do, if that is all you are worried about maxing. With 2.4GHz performance even a couple of rooms away I could hit around 100Mbps.

As for the 7260, if you do have or want 11ac, the Intel 7260ac card is generally pretty good. I can hit ~455Mbps from my Archer C8 in the same room on file transfers.
 
Has to cover ~800 sq ft area and also get to my office shed which is right next to the house outside. My current Ubiquity Unifi AP which is N150 has no issues in the signal strength but the speed is not there. I am mainly looking for the speed as the Aerohive AP230 is quite strong in the signal department.
 
What kind of speeds are you getting now? Because simply switching to an N300 solution very well might get you there as realistic gains from N150 to N300 (supposing there isn't much interference) is generally on the order of 90%. So if you are getting 60Mbps or more now, you'll probably get 100Mbps or better.
 
I am getting 30-35Mbps on the N150 with an Asus N150 PCIe card on my desktop. I already got the Aerohive and got it free from my work as we were testing a couple wireless APs to deploy and it was one of the samples we got. Company ended up going with Meraki so got to keep the Aerohive.
 
I'd probably look at the Intel 7260ac desktop kit then. That said, there is a good chance you might not hit 100Mbps still. 30-35Mbps, unless you have your 2.4GHz set to 20MHz, means you likely have a fair amount of attenuation already and 5GHz sucks at range. So if you are in 20MHz mode, then yeah, you might get easily over 100Mbps with the Intel 7260ac on 5GHz...but if you are running 2.4GHz 40MHz, you'll probably only get up in to the 80-90Mbps range...and that'll likely be when connecting on 2.4GHz, as 5GHz might be too attennuated to out perform 2.4GHz.
 
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