This device supports WPA and WPA2, 802.1X (EAP-TLS, TTLS, PEAP,EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-AKA). What Security Standards Does This WiFi Card Support? Although, obviously you lose the USB extras from the card. If you have a mini-ITX motherboard with an M.2 Key-E slot, you can just take out the Intel Wireless-AC 9260 M.2 2230 and put it in directly on-board. The PCIe card also adds a 9-pin USB 2.0 and a type-A USB 2.0 port. Included in the package is a magnetic base antenna supporting WLAN 2T x 2R transmission.

It supports a/b/g/n/ac with wave 2 features, Protected Management Frames Wi-Fi Miracast as Source, and Wi-Fi Direct features. Moreover, this new WiFi card supports Bluetooth 5, instead of Bluetooth 4.2 like the GC-WB867D-I. Like the Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I, it is an M.2 device mounted on a PCIe x1 card. Effectively going beyond the Gigabit wireless performance, and is 12x faster than 802.11b/g/n. As you might have gathered from the name by now, this card is capable of 1733Mbps instead of just 867Mbps. This is a much faster version of the GC-WB867D-I. Gigabyte has released the GC-WB1733D-I 802.11ac WiFi Card.

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