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This particular network card has wifi 6 and bluetooth 5 capabilities; specifically, with this product, you are purchasing the legendary AX200 chipset from Intel, which is the "queen" of wireless networks in the consumer market (I don't know what happens professionally and above - I imagine CAT ethernet wired).
This specific chip is the best there is, and even if it came bare, it would still be worth it. The product has its own antenna for both ports (WIFI/BT), like the corresponding (at double the price) Gigabyte card (which simply charges you for its quite mediocre name in the market).
Besides the PCI x1 it needs, it also requires a USB 2.0 four-pin to be connected. I don't know if it can work with a four-pin USB 1.0. In my case, I had the classic USB 2.0 header with the pins (2 rows, 5 + 4), and I connected it to the lower row of the four-pin, and it works perfectly.
The promise of this particular chipset is that it doesn't suffer from disconnects, and since it can connect to 5G wifi networks, we are now talking about speeds (and stability) of an ethernet connection.
P.S. This specific review refers to a Linux-like distribution; I don't know if the Intel drivers are equally good on Windows, where I have always had some trouble (with all drivers of all wireless cards).
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