The fenvi internet wireless adapter Wi-Fi 6 AX200 is a CNVi WLAN card that supports 802.11ax via 2x2 MU-MIMO antennas over the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands. for PC motherboards in the PCI-E/x1/x4/x8/x16 form-factors, based on the "Cyclone Peak" PHY powering the Wireless AX-22260 NIC family. As a Wi-Fi 6 adapter, it supports 802.11ax over 2x2 MU-MIMO antennae, and peak bandwidth of 2.4 Gbps, with support for both the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands.competing gigabit ethernet solution the max theoretical networking througput could delivers 2.4 Gbps.USB vs PCI-E Wireless Adapter for GamingWhich is cheaper? Which is faster? Which is more reliable? Which has the most range? Fair questions, but either an internal or external wireless adapter can work just fine for a gaming desktop (assuming you pick a decent model and one that's right for your particular setup). Both types can offer good wireless signal and speeds, so choose whichever you prefer or is right for your setup, but they do have pros and cons explained below. A USB adapter is going to be cheaper in general, and is more convenient as mentioned. They may also be good enough in terms of signal strength, and a decent USB model will allow for fast-enough speeds to match a good router.However, an internal PCI-E/PCI card will typically give the best signal strength, as they tend to have better/bigger/more antennas than a USB adapter (which might not have an antenna at all). Although to be fair some good USB adapters do have multiple (and good-quality) antennas.With an internal PCI-E/PCI network card you also don't have to worry about overheating, as USB adapters can definitely overheat when under load for too long, therefore making an internal network card the better overall long-term pick for reliability. Also, another little benefit to internal adapters (albeit small) is having an extra free USB port. Comes with external antennas with long 100cm antenna cable to the magnetic
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Reviews are either not true, or users don't have a proper AX router.
UPDATE:Grace from Fenvi the manufacturer of this card has contacted me to offer help, they offered a replacement which also did not connect with the full speed (same issue as the first unit). They offered me a full refund, and requested me to return the unit to them in China so that they can analyse if there is an issue that they could fix. They paid for the full return costs. I would recommend Fenvi for the service they provided so I am updating my review from 1 to 3 stars as I do not see this level of after-sales service that often and in fairness they really did try to help which nowadays is impressive, most companies once they take your money they do not care, I did not even contact Fenvi, they reached out to me which is very proactive. I do not know if this is an issue with the Intel AX200 chipset that this card uses, or the card itself, based on how Fenvi handled the issue I would purchase it and if there is any issue then contact them for a resolution.ORIGINAL REVIEW - 1 STARReceived today, easy to install.I have a ASUS Rampage V Edition 10 board, went into the slot easily, and it booted Windows 10 no problem.I also have a ASUS GT-AX11000 router, which is WiFi 6 (AX) and is currently the best consumer router for WiFi 6 (it is TriBand and quite powerful).This Fenvi adaptor will not connect consistently, either the adaptor itself or the antenna aren't up to the job, my Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard has built-in AC WiFi 5, and I could get a consistent 1300Mbps connection, I thought hey, this adaptor is WiFi 6 AX, so it has to be better and double that, right?Nope. It varies from 50Mbps to around 600, and that's it. When you initially connect to the network it does at the full 2000+ Mbps, but it quickly drops down. I noticed that the antenna has only two wires. The antenna style is the same on my RVE10, however that one has three wires. I don't believe this terrible product is properly built for WiFi 6, because there aren't enough antennas to do MIMO.In online pictures you can see that Fenvi shows one antenna for 2.4GHz band, and another antenna for 5GHz band. If this is true, it is totally misleading, because 1 antenna will NEVER give you the full AX bandwidth, it just can't, it needs more for the beamforming and MIMO to work.I will set up a return and I'd recommend buyers to steer clear of this. You really get what you pay for.PS. All settings on my GT-AX11000 were checked, 160MHz mode was on, AX mode was enabled, I tried smartconnect to let the router negotiate with the card, and I also tried to manually set the channels, I factory reset the router and started from scratch after that just to make sure that it was not the router. Nope, it's this awful product, re-enabling my on-board WiFi 5 card and reconnecting the 3-wire antenna brought back a full 1300Mbps connection.This product simply does not work, it's misleading and anybody saying it has improved their connection must be talking about the speed they're receiving from their broadband. Depending what kind of WiFi card they had before, this could very well increase speeds a bit but I measured it on the LAN and it's hitting 470Mbps at most, whereas with my previous card it would hit 980+ (SSD RAID array on my 10Gbps NAS which is connected to the 2.5Gbps port on the GT-AX11000 giving me a full 2.5Gbps connection on the NAS, it's definitely not a bottleneck issue).I can confidently say, the issue is with this Fenvi card, do not buy and waste your money if you're looking for a working Wifi 6 AX client that will give you full throughput.
R**N
PCI-E slots & driver instalation
Hello, product is fine everything works as it should be, got better connections after all, the product is worth the money trust me, but usually I leave reviews only if it's necessary and I must say that I only had 2 issues with this wifi card:1. I tried to install the card in the PCI-E x1 slot, the one situated above my gpu where I previously had the other wifi card and it didn't worked, for some some reason my motherboard wasn't reading that slot with the Fenvi card in it; switching the card to the PCI-E x4 slot seemed to work;2. with the Fenvi card installed in the different slot it started working with no problems(no driver installation was necessary) so I thought to I try and update it still and it didn't work, for some God knows other reason after I was clickin on the driver setup form the instalation CD that came up with it the program was opening for 2-3 sec showing me a green wifi sign and then was dissapearing leaving me blank, same thing happening with the downloaded driver from their website(didn't work-Win 10) so I went into Device manager and update it from there automatically leaving Windows to search online for a new driver version wich it did in less than 30 sec and update the wifi card to it's new firmware. So there you go, the wifi card is worth the money for it's performance so I do recomend it !!!!
J**Y
Excellent potential, great price, but it failed in the second computer.
I have a system for testing components and software, and a system that I use every day. Both run Windows 10 Home 64 bit latest build. The test system has 16Gb of DDR3, a SATA SSD, a good Seasonic PSU and it's not overclocked. The every day system has an ASUS ROG motherboard, 36Gb of DDR4, an M.2 Samsung SSD, an excellent PSU, and is overclocked by 22%. Why is that important? Because the Fenvi card may be used in systems like my every day system.The Fenvi card installed in the test system quite easily using a PCIE/X16 slot. The WiFi 6 initial link speed was around 950 Mbs to a WiFi 6 mesh satellite, 5.7 metres away on the other side of an aerated block wall with dry lining. Installing the Fenvi card in the every day system and, moving the aerial to line of sight through an open door achieved 1.2Gbs. Bluetooth PINS were exchanged correctly, the "success" message displayed, but Bluetooth had not installed. The Bluetooth drivers in Windows had corrupted: in Device Manager they had adopted the name of the tablet that I used for testing Bluetooth and WiFi. The Fenvi card had a #2 suffix in Windows and, appeared to have adopted the name of the Windows system. I tried PCIe/X16 and X1 slots without success and, l moved back to the test system, but no joy.Fenvi were helpful and offered to swap the card, but I returned the card to Amazon. I may have been unlucky, as I have had two very expensive, early release routers develop annoying failures. Your experience with this card may be more positive than mine.
S**S
Getting great signal on daughter's gaming PC
Bought as daughter was struggling to get wifi over the other side of the house, this has fixed the issue
R**S
Excellent for the money, works perfectly.
Fast, reliable WiFi Card. Runs in the new AX platform so has faster up and down load speeds. It also has a better connection to the router reducing latency, this is because AX wifi can communicate with more devices at once rather then being in a queue as most current wifi systems are.To get the full use of this card you will need a AX router, they are not cheap and are not supplied by your ISP. They are worth it if you have a lot of IOT or are into online gaming wirelessly. The Asus AX11000 is excellent if you are after a new router and I can highly recommended it along with this product. I use it on my secondary gaming systems dotted around the house and have not had an issue. LAN is best for gaming if possible but this works a treat and is it half the price of the Asus version.
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