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I got a Dell Inspiron 7547 with Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160, but in all forums, all users have issues with this Wifi+Bluetooth Card, I want to change it but not sure what type of connection or slot has in it. But dont know if this is pci-express, half pci or any other type for the wifi, some people suggest Intel AC 7265 but I dont need so much technology just Wifi b/g + Bluetooth. Any suggestion what type or kind of wifi card should I get/look? Edit1: I attached the image of the card, I open the Laptop and take a picture of the card itself. NGFF is related to the M.2 form factor which is PCIe (and SATA) based standard.
In this case a NGFF based wireless adaptor would be PCIe. The reason the model number is required is because you have asked for an alternative to a specific product (Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160), asked about what basically is the M.2 version of that product (Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160NGW), then don't seem certain of anything. My research discovered that there are two versions of the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 one is Mini-PCIe the other is NGFF – Jul 21 '16 at 21:10.
I had the same issue, and finally found a workaround. (for the impatient, skip to the end. Otherwise, here's more detail on what I experienced and some guesses on the underlying issue) I'm not sure what you mean by the 3160 being unsupported though, Intel has Win 10 drivers posted, useless though they were in fixing this issue for me: I've had no changes to my hardware environment, not on my PC or router, and this adapter worked fine in windows 8.1, and fine in windows 10 until I applied the 'anniversary' update. That's when when these problems began. The creator update didn't help, if anything the problem seemed worse.
I finally managed to isolate the problem area, though I don't know the cause, or true solution, only a work around. I've seen lots of similar WiFi issues reported in Win10, with this adapter and others, so I believe that Win10 likely has issues related to its management of WiFi adapters. From other research on my problem, I believe it's either conflicts between Win10 and the driver's OEM software (Intel ProSet in this case) or problems related to system security permissions conflicts between services and/or system and user files in AppData & Program Files. The later is a general guess from seeing Event Log items about security issues pop up around the time the adapter experiences disconnects.
Oct 11, 2015 - 'Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 802.11 ac 2x2 WiFi + BT 4.0 Combo Adapter non-Vpro version for use with HP ENVY 17 Notebook PC. Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160. Support information for Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160 related to product highlights, featured content, downloads and more.
If so, it could be the result of upgrading to Win 10 from 8.1 instead of a clean install, but again that's a guess. Either way, In my case the immediate source of the disconnects seems related to the use of 802.11a. After trying a bunch of advanced driver options, I found that choosing a Wireless Mode that excluded 'a' eliminated these issues. You get there via device manager, and the advanced tab for the driver. Wireless Mode is one of the options there.
Choose one without 'a'. I had to do this by booting into safe mode. In addition to extreme instability of the wifi connection, I could not change settings in the driver without crashing device manager completely, and after that I could not even reboot the computer normally, I could only do a hard reboot. After that hard reboot, I had to immediately reboot to safe mode to avoid further instability that would prevent normal rebooting and setting changes.