Intel AC3160 wifi card is faulty.

this card is a piece of $$$$. I've read numerous threads about this card being very weak and slow. i get like 1 mbps with this card on wifi. sometimes the speed goes up. but not by much. my internet speed is 60 mbps. and this card just goes crazy. gets slow. sometimes completely disconnects or 0 bandwidth. i tried everything. default settings. i did a lot of troubleshooting, disabled bluetooth. it doesn't change anything.
would MSI replace it for me with a new card. not the same one? because there is no way this is a software issue. the card is just bad

Quote from: hammodi1996 on 27-December-14, 08:12:38
this card is a piece of $$$$. I've read numerous threads about this card being very weak and slow. i get like 1 mbps with this card on wifi. sometimes the speed goes up. but not by much. my internet speed is 60 mbps. and this card just goes crazy. gets slow. sometimes completely disconnects or 0 bandwidth. i tried everything. default settings. i did a lot of troubleshooting, disabled bluetooth. it doesn't change anything.
would MSI replace it for me with a new card. not the same one? because there is no way this is a software issue. the card is just bad
have you tried disable bandwidth manage in killer network software? and even tried on another router? since WIFI will give you slow speed if etc your router uses old technology N connection but if your router has new N version it should give you up to atleast 50MB/s on wireless if it has 2.4GHz and 5Ghz band since 5GHz will give you more on N connection than 2.4GHz would.

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