The Intel AC-7265 Behaves in the same way as the AC-8260. Rebooting again or loading BIOS Defaufts resolves the issue. The Intel AC-8260 Works with both WiFi and Bluetooth Modules powering up however on the occasional reboot or power down and start up it won't detect the WiFi Module of the card and the hardware is not present in device manager aside from the Bluetooth Module. The Intel AC-3165 Works flawlessly as you would expect from a stock card. There’s a good chance the wifi will start working again.I have replaced the stock card in my R3-131T Aspire from the 1x1 Intel AC-3165 to a 2x2 Intel AC-8260, I have also tried the 2x2 Intel AC-7265 and also a Killer Wireless AC 1535. Every time you notice your wifi connectivity becoming super bad, go and roll back your driver, or if that doesn’t help, uninstall it time and time again. What I haven’t found a solution for yet, is Windows 10’s tendency of forcing updates on the driver. You might have to uninstall quite a few driver versions though, so repeating the steps for uninstalling, searching for the device, and uninstalling again a few times might be necessary. Still not good, but the wifi was a crappy one!Īt least for me, the uninstallation process far fairly straightforward, and I wasn’t even required to reboot my machine before the wifi started working again. This is what the ping on bad wifi looks like after removing the fresh driver and using an older one: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260 default driver (technically speaking, the Uninstall -option should be disabled at this point, but after restarting the machine before taking the screenshot it was re-enabled) Įvery time you click “Uninstall”, also remember to actually REMOVE the driver from your system. That’s achieved by uninstalling the drivers as many times as you can until finally you can’t uninstall it anymore and it defaults to something like this: How to uninstall the driver and use an older version to fix connectivity issues

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