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Jimbo78
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Jul 15, 2021

A6200 Disconnecting on Windows 10

Noticed over the years that I had to uninstall and reinstall the A6210 drivers to keep it from disconnecting. It was getting frustrated, even though I installed from the Netgear disk, the device in the Device Manager showed as A6210 but driver always showed as a Microsoft driver. When uninstalling, I wanted to make sure of a complete uninstall  by using the Revo Uninstaller followed by using CCleaner to clean up the registry. Then I tried all kinds of variations for installing the drivers but the drivers still showed as Microsoft drivers. Soo, I decided that since Microsooft wants to be the driver that I would do the uninstall ritual one again and not run the Netgear setup disk. I enered the control panel - Device Manager to monitor the network adappters. I then plugged in the A6210 and waited. A new adapter "802.11ac Wireless LAN Card" showed up in short order and he light on the A6210 tuened on. I proceeded to do my network setup, ip address, gateway, etc... got on the web and ran speed tests and numerous other tests. Everything has been working great.

I figure that using the Netgear setup and Microsoft demanding that their driver has to dominate, created a conflict between the two that would cause the disconnects. surrendering/submitting control to Microsoft only solved the problem. They must do device discovery and boot out the manufacturer driver and replace it with their own.

 

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