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Question: What slot is required for this product to function? PCIE x1 or PCIE x16? Thanks.
Document: The Bluetooth is spotty, even at 5' distances.The fit into my Gigabyte motherboard wasn't so good either. I am capable and have worked at an electronics company,  I didn't feel comfortable with the fit into the PCI-E x1 slot. Maybe the circuit board was warped...On the plus side, software includes the setting up of a wi-fi hotspot and in-network sharing was nice to see.
I purchased the item with a brand new MSI Z77 G-55 Motherboard. This should have been a simple insert card into PCI slot, connect the USB and install the drivers. The provided install software came up with an error "There is no supported hardware". Windows installed an Athroes driver for it and the wireless worked however the bluetooth driver did not install.There is NO support on the Gigabyte website for this product.
I have had this card for several weeks now and I can not get it card to function correctly. The driver/software install crashed my system and Gigabyte's tech support has been unable to help me fix it!
the cards basically a wireless and bluetooth combo card that you just pop into any laptop with a mini pcie slot on its board.that said, if something were to go wrong with the card you can just swap it out with any other one, and should work fine. I'll experiment with a killer wireless card later and update with that too.
This item works well, has excellent reception and few glitches except one: I have to keep disabling and enabling it every time I turn my PC on or reboot it, if not, the throughput is way too low. When re-enabled the through put jumps up to the rated amount. I have tried several things but no avail, it's only a small gripe and small price to pay for the excellent internet acces it provides. And the Bluetooth function isn't bad either!
I am a moderate to hardcore gamer with a lot of experience on building computers.I bought this card for the bluetooth function, I was sick of breaking dongles.After re arranging my apartment I could no longer keep a organized wired connection.I have had this card for about 2 weeks and have been using both functions flawlessly. Wireless connection speed is very fast, good enough to keep up with GW2, Firefall and Neverwinter with no lag.
I don&#8217;t see where other buyers were having such difficulty with installing this device. First thing I did was read the instructions (since a lot of people were having issues installing this). It was fairly simply to make this work!! Per the instructions you install the card in the proper slot, boot windows (I had Windows 7) and install the drivers from the disk.
I didn't need to jump through a lot of hoops to get this card working as some previous reviews warned about. I just downloaded the newest drivers from Gigabytes website, rebooted, then shutdown my pc and installed the card. The next time windows loaded, the card was properly installed and worked without a hitch.Wifi reception and speeds have been great, but the bluetooth function doesn't have the same range. I want to stream music to my sound bar in an adjacent room.
It does what you expect it to do: provide good WiFi and Bluetooth at once. I was however a bit disappointed at the port usage though. It takes up at least one Internal USB port as well as its PCIe slot for full functionality. This USB port use is for the Bluetooth connection and likely has been so implemented to take advantage of the Windows Bluetooth Stack as well as provide a bit of overkill on the bandwidth.
wifi work perfectly fine on this card. However, bluetooth is unstable. i already have a usb wifi adapter on my pc. i got this card for the extra bluetooth and free up my usb slot. bluetooth will connect perfectly fine in the beginning but it will disconnect after an hour or 2. it wont reconnect unless i restart my computer. sometime restarting doesnt fix the issue and i have to delete the device and add it again. very trouble some for bt. i have tried reinstalling the driver.
Answer: The correct answer is either one....yes, it is a PCI-E X1 card, but it will work in a PCI-E X16 slot (including X8, X4, and of course X1).