azrael201 wrote:
i see there's a thread for the AC7260. I just posted in N7260.
I bought a new laptop from Gentech with AC7260 installed. So i doubt it's fake. It works but when I am gaming it does get intermittent lag spikes. My 5 year old HP junk at least doesn't suffer lag spikes. I tested the same game on my desktop and there are no lag issues. It definitely is this card.
I've tried using only 2.4ghz and even 5ghz and checking the signal strengths with SSIDer and to no avail. I have the latest driver installed as well. I remember when I use to use the bluetooth it would disconnect intermittently as well. But it's not as annoying as unstable connection.
Can you try turning off the HT mode on the device manager then ping your router's IP 500 times? I see some people having success with eliminating sudden ping spikes (above 10 ms ping to router) with this HT mode off. Turning off HT mode results to operating in A or G mode which is 54 Mbps max. However, I don't consider this as a fix since my 7260N (doesn't matter if it's AC or not since they use the exact drivers anyway) doesn't have any ping spikes while gaming or pinging the router with HT mode on. I use 16.8.0.6 drivers and will never update the drivers since "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
You can see from my screenshot below that it stays connected for 5 days straight and gets 0 ms ping average with 10 ms ping as max. I consider the WiFi ping stable if pinging the router 500 times doesn't get the max ping to above 10 ms as pings above 10 ms can cause WiFi lag while gaming.
