I recently purchased an ASUS Zenbook UX303LN for $1600, a real Cadillac of a laptop, to replace my 3 year-old Macbook Pro. Well, my ancient Macbook gets about 6-8MB/s of wireless internet speed, yet the Zenbook, using Intel's Dual Band 7260-N, I receive between 0.5 and 2MBs. I constantly disconnect from PC games like Hearthstone, whereas this never happened on my Mac. In other words, I am still using a 3 year old Apple product instead of a brand new, $1600 laptop. How do you think I feel, and how do you think this has changed my perception of Intel?
I have followed a number of troubleshooting guides (changing simple things like turning off power saving as it relates to wireless). I also installed Intel's Driver updating program, which got my hopes up as it updated the driver on the wireless card to what I assume to be the most up-to-date. No noticeable increase in performance.
Please update me as to Intel's progress in resolving this issue. I will be contacting ASUS with a complaint and am hopeful my warranty will force them to replace the card with a competitor's product or something. Was really looking forward to moving to PC instead of Apple, but this experience has me second guessing that desire.