Has anybody else had any success with this?
I'd like to share my 2c as I'm still seeing mixed reports on the latest drivers. I do not use Windows. I use Ubuntu both at home and at work with a series of a few thousand systems. I have a laptop that came from Dell with Ubuntu on it (XPS 13) and I've had a lot of wireless issues lately. At first I thought it was a borked driver in Linux until I began to see an endless array of Windows users having problems too. I have a few problems on the table.
1) In a lot of cases, users cannot always just swap out wireless cards. While I acknowledge this is not specifically an Intel fault, it's worth mentioning that companies like Lenovo and HP are wildly notorious for whitelisting wireless cards. Oh, you have a card that fits and want to replace a problematic wifi chip? Good luck. Lenovo in particular I have dealt with personally on this level. It's wildly irritating that they are even legally allowed (which I'm not even sure of) to whitelist wireless cards, thereby severely limiting the user's ability to switch wireless cards (I like to think that when I'm president someday I'll put an immediate stop to nonsense behavior like this). I do not have this problem in my Dell (I have a different problem with my Dell as I cannot find a suitable alternative that has the same form factor, oddly), but as some users have suggested here, swapping out isn't always an option. This is why I now avoid Lenovo and HP like the plague.
2) How old is this card? What are we, going on 9 months? A year? Where on earth is Intel on this? You're working on a fix? This is outrageously disappointing that a wireless card could even pass any internal inspection. It took me all but a few hours from a fresh unbox of this laptop to see that this issue is still existent. Intel has traditionally had great drivers for both Windows and Linux, but this experience has me incredibly disappointed. Given the amount of exposure the 7260 has already, including in a lot of System76 laptops that come with Ubuntu preinstalled and an endless amount of Windows laptops, I am outrageously disappointed in Intel. I cannot emphasize this enough.
Last night I was sitting here on the 2.4 GHz band on my Netgear 3700 router. I was in direct line of sight as it sits underneath my TV. I kept disconnecting continuously. I must have disconnected about six times in less than an hour. On a hunch I fired up my wife's laptop to see if her laptop would disconnect when mine did. Her laptop admittedly has a trusty Atheros wireless chipset, and go figure, it not only did not disconnect, but it continued bringing over a few GB worth of ISO files from my file server while my XPS disconnected and then suddenly couldn't even see my SSID again.
I hate to sound so abrasive, but Intel, really, you have to get this right literally as soon as possible - and not just for Windows, but Linux too. I cannot believe I'm even on an Intel chip with this sort of experience. The magnitude of Google results with people enraged at this chip is mind boggling. What happened, Intel?