The A315-41 has the same selection of ports as its siblings. Acer provides the notebook with three USB Type-A ports (one USB 3.1 Gen 1 port, two USB 2.0 ports). The laptop does not offer any USB Type-C ports. An external monitor can be connected via HDMI. The SD card reader belongs to the faster specimens of its kind. When copying large chunks of data, a maximum transfer speed of 75.9 MB/s was achieved. The transfer of 250 JPG image files was completed with a speed of 86.2 MB/s. We test the SD card reader with the help of a reference SD card (Toshiba Exceria Pro SDXC 64 GB UHS-II).

The Aspire 3 comes equipped with a Wi-Fi module from Qualcomm (QCA9377). Besides the Wi-Fi standards 802.11 a/b/g/n, it also supports the fast Wireless-AC standard. The data transfer speeds that we measured under the optimal conditions (no other Wi-Fi-enabled devices in close proximity, a short distance between the notebook and the server PC) are quite average, because the device features a 1x1 MIMO antenna.

