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Hi short check on the capabilities: will the Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 work when I update the bios? All the above read i would say yes. But anyone has experience?

Thx

installed in my y500, works fine. bluetooth is a little buggy, but was buggy with the original wifi too O_o

I just upgraded from an intel 6300 card in my desktop to the ASUS PCE-AC66, and it works great except when I start my computer there are networks avaialble but it takes 1-2min to be able to join a network automatically or manually. Any ideas? This problem wasn't present with the intel 6300. I am running the latest drivers as well.

This seems to be fine Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 BD-RE Blu-ray Drive Writer - SATA

Has anyone tried or know if it is possible to switch the drive inside of the optical bay caddy that comes stock? Since the 750m ultrabay addon seems to be a bit of a unicorn I wouldnt mind putting in an bluray drive.

I've tried an intel 6235, and a 7260 both have ok signal but still lower than my y470p with a 6250 and the old lady's acer that has a 6250 as well and my desktop that has a 6300, so crappy antenna placement or the brushed aluminum maybe hinders the signal.

Thats a pretty good idea if it works.

Yeah, I've been busy in many aspects of my life, I haven't even really had a lot of time to play games yet. Annoying, but I figure I've got time.

I'm thinking using Throttlestop for games such as Morrowind and The Witcher that are not compatible with SLI and are very CPU limited would be best. I'll attempt to make my Ultrabay GPU the primary maybe in order to see if heat stays away.

Anyone tried the 802.11ac/a/b/g/n wifi cards on Y500?

I am about to pull the trigger on Intel 7260 wifi card HMC (PROVANTAGE: Intel 7260.HMWG Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 2X2 AC+BT HMC)

It is the correct model and it can replace the stock 2230- card and it has BT 4.0 too.

The only problem might be the antenna, will it be able to tackle the 5Ghz channels?

Or will i have to buy new antennae too?

I have one on order, and yes it should work.

Has anyone seen a modded 2.03 bios for the Y470P? I'm running a whitelist intel 5250 in it at the moment but want to upgrade it to an intel 7260.

Thanks

Try enabling "Wmm" on your network card, enabling it also enable intels throughput enhancement. I received best results when I was connected to netgear routers, and negligible diff on linksys routers enabling it.

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I read it is a bug with 802.11n driver related.

If you disable n-mode it works.

802.11a was only for 2.4ghz so I doubt disabling 802.11a would change anything.

opticeps thanks. I will try that. I think it was at certain intervals.

I will try disabling background scan. But the driver only allowed to change it to lowest. I will post back.

802.11a is 54/108mbps on the 5ghz band

Mine has been fine, did you buy it off ebay? 90% of the time the ones on ebay are es cards (engineering samples) which is fine most of the time some are junk, I had an es 6300 that would only get 1mbps on the 5GHz band.

<ip>. But unless they patch the Firmware the Killer is a $60 N card that is super low latency, but a $30 AC card has 5 Times the bandwidth, which is what more people want, hence more requests for speed tests than ping tests. Besides this is all router dependent, a cheap router will make or break any WIFI test.

I agree, that why I ordered an intel ac-7620

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with my intel 6235 speedtest gave me Speedtest.net - My Results

and pingtest gave me http://www.pingtest.net/result/83313830.png

2.04 mod works great, sportin an intel 6235 now, rockin on the 5ghz band. Need to buy an intel ac-7260 now

v2.04 added. Only for 2.04 users at the moment, I'm looking into providing an update for the rest.

yay! downloading now

Any eta on the 2.04 whitelist removal?

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On notebook review they say 2.04 is unlocked already guess its bull huh?

no it is not unlocked, I tried 3 different cards, with no luck.

Work in progress. Should be on today, hopefully.

Excitedly waiting

If you use Intel adapters.

Make sure to disable Fast boot or hybrid boot. Because you will have bluescreens of crashing bluetooth adapters. I have this with my Atheros as well.

Killer Wireless N is best choice latency wise.

Like he said. If you are not a hardcore gamer it's not really worth it. Atheros is just fine for counter strike.

Skill matters. Not hardware. trust me

On top of that to fully take advantage of a better wireless card, you need to have a descent router, and service provider. Better wireless cards won't give you latency and speeds that your isp and router can't provide.

I'm still hopin SVL7 can work his magic on my 2.04, this intel 2230 is drivin me batty

It was the card reader drivers

one is probably acpi power control and is included in lenovo power manager...

nope, already installed

I'm not a firm believer you'll notice the improvement in games, unless you're a "hardcore gamer" but if you were a "hardcore gamer" you wouldn't have bought a Lenovo (more budget minded casual gamer imo) The high end intel card have been good to me, consistent driver updates and long life support. I'm not a believer the killer series will be supported for as long as an intel card (unless the killer series gets more mainstream) heck the intel 4965agn is still supported and gets driver updates. I also find the intel cards "usually" have a better price point.

(the intel 2230 is by far the worst of the entry level intel wifi adapters I have ever used)

Use a free file hosting site like MediaFire or Google Drive and PM svl7 the download link.

thanx, i sent it to him

Gotta unlock your bios first, I'd either go Intel 6230/6235 or the Intel Wireless-AC 7260 personally.

finally got my new Y500 in, and reverted to windows 7, but I have 3x "Base System Devices" that don't have drivers, anyone have a clue?