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A6200 Disconnecting on Windows 10
Im having an issue with the A6200 Wifi Adapter on windows 10, it will work for an intermittent amount of time (usually 5-10min) then completely disconnect, only showing my network when i click on the...
- Anyone having trouble with Netgear Wireless AC6200 dropping out intermittently after upgrading to Windows 10, here is a possible solution:1. Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Change Plan Settings\Change Advanced Power Settings;2. Expand Wireless Adaptor Settings\Power Saving Mode and make sure it is set to "Maximum Performance";3. Expand USB Settings\USB Selective Suspend Settings and change Setting to "Disabled".This worked for me and YMMV, but I hope this helps avoid the weeks of frustration I've just gone through..
I'm afraid I'm the latest person to chime in here about issues with the Netgear A6200 and Windows 10. I'm running Windows 10, 64-bit edition, on a custom built PC (AMD FX-8370 CPU and MSI motherboard with 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD).
I recently purchased a refurbished A6200 adapter from one of the "daily deal" type web sites out there, thinking I got a great price on it. Unfortunately, I now think I see why it was selling so inexpensively.
I've tried Netgear's latest "release" version of the A6200 driver as well as the newer "beta" version (V1.0.0.35) which I'm running right now. I'm connecting to an Apple Airport Extreme with 802.11ac support running Apple's latest firmware revision for it.
What I've experienced is the adapter failing to initialize properly after I wake the PC from sleep (I have to shut down and restart to get it going again). And during use, it intermittently disconnects under load (such as when watching streaming video content). When this happens, I get a yellow exclamation point next to the wi-fi icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen and I can click on it, select the SSID of my Airport Extreme, and tell it to "disconnect". Then select it again and reconnect, and it starts working again.
I've tried the adapter in both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports on my motherboard, but that doesn't seem to change the behavior.
(For what it's worth, I followed a tip on a web forum to go into "advanced settings" under the A6200 driver in the device manager, and toggle a setting for "WWM" to "on" instead of the default of "auto". Interestingly, that increased my download throughput by about 20mbits/second. But it didn't help with any of the other issues mentioned above.)
I've spent more time than it's worth uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, and tried this with both the current build and the previous build of Win 10. But I keep having these problems. As someone else mentioned, it appear Netgear has closed some of the threads talking about this issue as "problem solved" - even though there's no evidence at all it was solved! If this is the standard Netgear response to supporting anything that's not the "latest and greatest" model for sale, it will be the last time I buy or recommend anytihng with the company's name on it!