Fixing the Lenovo Yoga's Awful Wifi Module 

can anyone identify the song title at the beginning? I know it is incompetech, but it sounds like a jazz remix of some old-timey song I recognize. Title plz?

Actual throughput is always going to be like 1/2 of the link speed.

did you resolve this issue?

Disable 'allow my computer to turn this device off to save power' also make sure it's set to 'maximum performance' and 'no power savings' in Windows Power Plan. (Also you said you updated the drivers... the old drivers can interfere, make sure you fully uninstall the entire network card in device manager, including software, and reinstall. That should clear out the old drivers from your garbage NIC.)

did you ever figure it lut

@Equality 7-2521 already found it :D

Was it just plug and play?

We had exactly the same problem and even have a fiber connection! Shame Lenovo!

I'm having the same problem. Did you fix yours?

@@ericastone1415 I just bought a newer version of the wifi module and put it in. It's better, but still not great.

@@peTeMelster Ok. I think the problem may be the orientation of the antenna.

I find laptops that accept the driver packages from the manufacturers of the hardware are far and away better products all around. HP laptops are just trash and their motherboards are made by the same company that produces the motherboards for those crappy tablets you'll find in Wal-Mart... I wish I was joking, but it's true. Not to mention that they withhold features that would otherwise work with the OEM's driver, but they prefer to disable the features to one up you into a bigger pile.

How does Acer do?

I actually have an Acer ultrabook, it's as fine as my MSI gaming laptop. All drivers are from their respective OEMs and none of the negatives like the others from my experience.

There is wizards out there who can remove whitelists from BIOSes. I did that with my x220 and it was happy with the new wifi card it got.

This is exactly why there is marketspace for other companies like System76 or purism. Sadly the problem is that they lack the finance to create these kind of laptops, thin, 2in1, powerfull, with loads of battery. We are close to this, but not yet there. I would blindly purchase a laptop that would allow me to do the following : - 2in1 (I draw, I take notes) - Runs Linux & Kvm w. gpu passthrough (proper IOMMU + proper - Has a great cooling on all components (thunderbolt is absolutely awful and prone to fire, for real !) If you manufacture laptops, please add an heatsink to that chip ! - Power can be from usb-c or another input (usb-c is limited and depending on your GPU/CPU that will not be enough) - Maybe a module to get the power brick slim attached to the laptop itself, those ext. bricks are such a pain - Great wifi, a foldable rj45 port (YES you can put a rj45 in a slim laptop, nobody needs a paper thin laptop and all the cons that go with it) - Great keyboard (no flex!), cleanable, no weird font, standard layout, maybe even changeable, please put holes to redirect liquid to other holes on the side or bellow the laptop - Use the screen back to provide extra battery. (See Surface book), use that legal 100W/h - FN keys by default. No sounds and other useless shortcuts by default at each boot... - LARGE trackpad, no proprietary mess driver - Great audio with electrical noise isolation and low latency chip. (Lots of great chips available with open drivers) - Wifi antenas that don't use the chassis as extenders ! - Electric noise check (It's so awful to be able to tell when the mouse moves on your screen without looking because the computer emits electrical noises that are audible...) - No freaking HDMI, choose DISPLAY PORT, you can get hdmi from DP! - A screen that is Adobe RGB 100% or any other spectrum that covers most of the needs PS: I ask for a lot but, I'm an owner of a Surface Book Performance, , and sadly the Linux situation on it sucks. I purchased this laptop at the time because it was the only one of its kind. Now there is other alternatives of course. So Yes, I'm willing to cash-in! Manufacturers are just not willing to make that kind of device... If you too, please let the manufacturers know, specially the open ones. They need guidance, otherwise they will have to follow any trend from any big brand in order to sell some devices. I'll take a thicker laptop any day if it provides more features including battery (screen on time)

Yes

i just bought my lenovo yoga 730 with i7 8550U am having some trouble connecting my laptop to my wifi ! any ideas ?

Google your laptop's model number + wifi upgrade. I can tell you a 7260 works on my Yoga 910 and should work in almost any similar laptop. The AX200 is also validated as functioning with the 910. The AX200 should (should... validate for yourself) work with the 920 and 930.

GurtTarctor Realtek I believe.

any luck ? am having the same problem with my lenovo yoga 730 i78550u i orderd INTEL 8260 card ill try to replace it and ill update

Ghazi Abbas update on repair?

I noticed that too. The wires are antennas, so likely not. However, the length of an antenna can effect its reception of certain frequencies of radio waves, so it's a possibility. By way of a related, visible example, look through the window in the door of a microwave oven, you will see a mesh with a lot of small holes in it. The holes in the mesh are sized in relation to the frequency of the oven's microwaves (microwaves are radio waves). In essence, the wavelength of the microwaves is too long to fit through the holes; that's why, if you put your hand on the window of a microwave oven, it won't start to heat up like the food inside the oven. Conversely, when it comes to receiving radio waves, if the length of an antenna is the length of the radio wave, the antenna will to tuned to the wave length and have better reception. You can see examples of tuned length antennas by looking up images of Bluetooth modules. You will see a line on the module with a series of 90 degree corners, that's the module's antenna tuned to the length of the Bluetooth radio waves.

can anyone identify the song title at the beginning? I know it is incompetech, but it sounds like a jazz remix of some old-timey song I recognize. Title plz?

I just got the Intel AX200 for my Yoga 900s, do remind me next week and I'll tell you if the improvement is noticeable!

@@Ishi112 Any improvement?

​@@ericastone1415 Not really, sadly! I can't recommend it. Waking windows up from sleep, it has trouble reconnecting to wifi. Bluetooth often won't work at all, until i restart the driver. On Ubuntu it holds the wifi connection quite well, but if i wanted to change the network, it won't recognise any for quite a while.

My Yoga 2 pro is whitelisted. I tried to install the 7260 ac but it didn't work. How did you fix it?

Peter Tuin I didn't do anything else other than install it and install the driver :-/ possibly a Bios update? I know I did one before I put the 7260 in, to correct for yellow hue in the screen (3200x1800 model).

Yep. The issue is that the Realtek card it comes with stock is absolute trash and Lenovo shouldn't have used it in the first place.

@@benjamincarron9732 it shouldn't be legal for them to sell a defective product. It seems the majority of the laptops with the card have this issue and they know damn well its an issue they just deny it and claim ignorance.