Two utterly worthless posts....
See my recent post here..... What you both said is utter malarkey!
I bought 3 different OEM computers, two with Intel's and one with Atheros (are they intel underneath?), and they all had/have dropping issues.
This forum and so is the net is FULL of people with dropping issues on various cards, various systems, on primarily Win 8 and some Win 7. So, trying to BLAME the OEM's or independent installs for the problems with these cards is bunk. And don't blame the routers either. People are using standard routers, for which many other computers have no problems with, and for years even with some, so it's clearly a fault with the Intel cards. Yes, the router is likely related, but it's a fault in the cards that's making them not work with standard routers as they should.
So Intel.... Please fix this problem!