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March 11, 2019
WiFi_20.120.1_Driver64_Win10.exe
26 MB
144,328
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Networking
Windows 7/8/10
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Each file includes drivers for multiple adapters including 10/100, Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit adapters. This download includes diagnostics. Separate downloads are available for the User Guides and other features. This software may also apply to Intel Ethernet controllers. Support for built-in network connections is provided by the system or board manufacturer.
Intel is a supplier of laptop components and does not manufacture or sell complete laptop systems. The software provided by Intel below is a generic version. Each laptop computer original equipment manufacturer (OEM) may have altered the features, incorporated customizations, or made other changes to the software or software packaging they provide. The software provided has not been verified by your laptop manufacturer as to compatibility or other operation.
Intel or the laptop computer original equipment manufacturer (OEM) may not provide technical support for some or all issues that could arise from the usage of this software.
This driver does not contain software or drivers for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows Me, or IBM OS/2.
Intel is a supplier of laptop components and does not manufacture or sell complete laptop systems. The software provided by Intel below is a generic version. Each laptop computer original equipment manufacturer (OEM) may have altered the features, incorporated customizations, or made other changes to the software or software packaging they provide. The software provided has not been verified by your laptop manufacturer as to compatibility or other operation.
Intel or the laptop computer original equipment manufacturer (OEM) may not provide technical support for some or all issues that could arise from the usage of this software.
This driver does not contain software or drivers for Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows Me, or IBM OS/2.
Supported Products:
- Intel PROSet/Wireless Software
- Intel Wireless-N 7260
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7265
- Intel Wireless-N 7265
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
- Intel Tri-Band Wireless-AC 17265
- Intel Tri-Band Wireless-AC 18260
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
- Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168
- Intel Tri-Band Wireless-AC 18265
Previous Versions:
Intel Dual Band Wireless-ac 3160 Specs
Intel PROSet/Wireless Network Adapter Software and Driver 20.10.2 2017-11-20:
Intel PROSet/Wireless Network Adapter Software and Driver 20.0.2 2017-11-08:
Intel PROSet/Wireless Network Adapter Software and Driver 19.70.0 2017-07-12:
Intel PROSet/Wireless Network Adapter Software and Driver 19.50.1 2017-04-28:
Intel PROSet/Wireless Network Adapter Software and Driver 19.20.3:
Previous version 19.20.3 2016-10-18:
Previous version 19.0.1 2016-07-20:
Previous version 18.40.4 2016-07-02:
Previous version 18.40.0 2016-03-21:
Previous version 18.21.0 2015-11-12:
Previous version 18.20.0:
Previous version 18.11.0:
Previous version 17.16.0:
Previous version 17.1.0:
Version 7.0.6:
Previous Version 7.0.3:
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I had the same issue, and finally found a workaround. (for the impatient, skip to the end. Otherwise, here's more detail on what I experienced and some guesses on the underlying issue)
I'm not sure what you mean by the 3160 being unsupported though, Intel has Win 10 drivers posted, useless though they were in fixing this issue for me: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26779/Wireless-Intel-Wireless-Bluetooth-for-Windows-10-?product=75442
I've had no changes to my hardware environment, not on my PC or router, and this adapter worked fine in windows 8.1, and fine in windows 10 until I applied the 'anniversary' update. That's when when these problems began. The creator update didn't help, if anything the problem seemed worse. I finally managed to isolate the problem area, though I don't know the cause, or true solution, only a work around.
I've seen lots of similar WiFi issues reported in Win10, with this adapter and others, so I believe that Win10 likely has issues related to its management of WiFi adapters. From other research on my problem, I believe it's either conflicts between Win10 and the driver's OEM software (Intel ProSet in this case) or problems related to system security permissions conflicts between services and/or system and user files in AppData & Program Files. The later is a general guess from seeing Event Log items about security issues pop up around the time the adapter experiences disconnects. If so, it could be the result of upgrading to Win 10 from 8.1 instead of a clean install, but again that's a guess.
Either way, In my case the immediate source of the disconnects seems related to the use of 802.11a. After trying a bunch of advanced driver options, I found that choosing a Wireless Mode that excluded 'a' eliminated these issues. You get there via device manager, and the advanced tab for the driver. Wireless Mode is one of the options there. Choose one without 'a'.
I had to do this by booting into safe mode. In addition to extreme instability of the wifi connection, I could not change settings in the driver without crashing device manager completely, and after that I could not even reboot the computer normally, I could only do a hard reboot. After that hard reboot, I had to immediately reboot to safe mode to avoid further instability that would prevent normal rebooting and setting changes.