dell xps 9550 wifi card help

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Hi all,

I have a dell xps 9550 and im not very impressed with its WIFI card and looking to get a replacement, most likely a intel one as they tend to be very good and update regularly.

Could someone please suggest which one to get, i know that mine i believe has 3 wires connecting to the wifi card if that helps at all.

thank you
 
Complaints about that wireless adapter are pretty common.

A quick search seems to show that your best option is an Intel 8260 or 9260. They're 2x2 cards rather than 3x3 so you'd have to ignore one of the antennas.
 
beware I bought a 9260 recently and after a reboot the bluetooth always errors in device manager I have to uninstall it and scan for new hardware, haven't looked in to a fix for this yet but its highly annoying as I am using a bluetooth mouse with mine.
But doesn't seem to happen from standby. also bluetooth audio is currently disabled, but as I don't use that I haven't messed with it.

I did read about covering one of the pins of the card which is meant to fix it, but I can't be bothered to take the bottom off again to try this yet.
 
bremen1874 said:
Complaints about that wireless adapter are pretty common.

A quick search seems to show that your best option is an Intel 8260 or 9260. They're 2x2 cards rather than 3x3 so you'd have to ignore one of the antennas.
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So would the concensus be to get a 8260 then?

I'm only concerned about the extra antennas possible tripping or short circuiting.

Any further info be great, rather annoying to hear the later 9260 is bad
 
I swapped the 2x2 in my XPS with an Intel 9260 and the difference is night and day.

I would try and get a 3x3 card though if you have the antennas in place.
 
There doesn't seem to be any 3x3 Intel cards, and I'd rather have a good 2x2 card over one of the rubbish broadcom 3x3 cards.
 
The Broadcom cards aren't that bad, I think even a normal Atheros card would be better than the Killer garbage that Dell like to install. Be aware that the Bluetooth radio is on the WLAN card as well so you need something with both if you're looking for a replacement.

I would agree though that if you aren't looking for ridiculous Wi-Fi throughput and would be happy with a stable 600Mbps or so then a 2x2 card is fine and the Intel ones are a good choice.

Anecdotally I have heard that if you give Dell support enough grief they will send you a non-Killer card to put in, but when you can buy something for £20 it's probably not worth the time.
 
Janesy B said:
I paid £12 which is worth the cost in not having to talk to them.

Part code was 8265NGW which has bluetooth.
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Thanks all for the replies,

Regarding 2*2, like the card you have this would mean il have a redundant wire as default is 3*3,what do you do with the extra wire?

I know someone said use insulation tape but this seems madness having to tape up wires inside a 1k laptop.

Atm the 8265 with Bluetooth option I think is best bet obviously if workable with my 3*3 wires.
 
Generally 3x3 devices will run 2x2 anyway unless you're spectacularly lucky and every 802.11ac device you have is 3x3. If not, everything drops back to the speed of the slowest client. So yes, a solid 2x2 card is generally every bit as good as a 3x3 card in almost every scenario I've seen.
 
WJA96 said:
Generally 3x3 devices will run 2x2 anyway unless you're spectacularly lucky and every 802.11ac device you have is 3x3. If not, everything drops back to the speed of the slowest client. So yes, a solid 2x2 card is generally every bit as good as a 3x3 card in almost every scenario I've seen.
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Thanks ordered 8265NGW and will let you know how it goes.
 
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