Dell Precision 3630 wifi bluetooth module\card part numbers?

Precision 3630 Setup and Specifications Guide 

Qualcomm QCA9377 dual band WiFi and Bluetooth Card

If I want to add an Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 9260 card, which location should it be added to? I have a PM981 NVMe Samsung 256GB card installed. I am wondering if they are using the same slot.

The Wireless card needs to be installed via PCIe adapter, not using the same slot for your Samsung drive.

Thank you for your help. My goal is to add Wifi and Bluetooth to my Precision 3630 machine. Could you please confirm my above two pictures, the location and the wifi card?   do I need to buy an adapter with the card for the installation?

Hello James,

Yes, you can use either of the bottom two slots in #21.  It will be better to buy a complete kit as it will have a wifi/bluetooth card, a PCIe adapter, anntena kit, and a USB cable for bluetooth.  You can review these to get some ideas before making a purchase.

Great! Thank you for the valuable information. 

Are they all in one? Does this one compatible with our Precision 3630? 

Where is the F_USB connector on the motherboard for the Bluetooth USB cable? 

If #11 or #12 is the connector for Bluetooth, then I will have trouble adding Bluetooth. Because they are occupied right now.

Hello James,

The selected adapter should work.  USB for bluetooth cable will be connector #17, next to password jumper.  Although the number of pin might be different, matching up the connector with keyed (missing pin).

To get full bandwidth, your router should have wifi 6 AX protocol, otherwise, it will connect at lower band like AC, wifi 5.

Not all adapter are all in one.  Many (used in workstation) are wifi only.

Yes, that is the bandwidth for wifi 6.  It should be enabled to use with wifi 6 devices.  You need to set broadcast ID and passcode, it will show up as connectable to your compatible devices.

Hello Chino,

Thank you very much for all your help. I can put in an order now.

You mentioned wifi 6. Is it this?

We just switched to Verizon Fios. The router is from Verizon. I don't know why that 6GHz is disabled. It looks like I should enable it. 

I know why I didn't enable it now. I have a few older devices such as Surface Pro 4. Wifi 6 requires WPA3. If a device does not support WPA3, it will have to use a 2.4GHz connection. 

When you are enabling the router 6 GHz capability, it does not affect the connection of older devices.  A 2.4 GHz frequency is still the strongest and furthest bandwidth signals, while 5 GHz is faster, it can only be achieved at a shorter distance. 

Not to confuse wifi-6 with 6 GHz bandwidth spectrum and its ability to connect to wifi-6E devices.  Wifi-6 devices use 5 GHz bandwidth but at 160 Hz wide channels. 

Fortunately, all these devices connection are self negotiate at default settings, no user intervention is needed.  Suggest to use separate broadcast ID for each band, so that you can identify and control which spectrum your devices will connecting to.  If a guest network is used, set it to 2.4 GHz.

Then I will have a try. Thank you very much! Learned a lot. Problems solved. You are really helpful.