A6200 Windows 8 support

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Aug 26, 2013

fghamilton wrote:
Wow. This is enlightening. I've been facing the same issues as many posters with A6200 - needing to reinstall drivers. I don't haven't I'll have to try the pulling and reinserting the adapter but the couple of times I tried that earlier I had no success. My initial problems stemmed from trying to set it up with a Linksys EA6500. I won't bore you with details but suffice to say that after 3 days of losing internet connectivity along with frequently losing just wireless connection caused me to replace the EA6500 with an ASUS RT-AC66U which solved the loss of internet drops. While waiting for the replacement, I had the A6200 linked with a Linksys WRT54G router and had no wireless/internet losses for 4-days. Now that I'm back to ~250-300 Mbps speeds the wireless losses reappear.

I suspect drivers and think perhaps the stand-alone 1.0.0.26 is a tad more stable than the version with Genie nut still I have wireless drops. I may give the 1.0.0.23 a try next time it drops. In the long haul, I may just search for a good "n" adapter and wait for the "ac" adapters to get a life.

In summary, if anything is encouraging with this adapter/firmware/support issue, it is the voices being raised about the sad state of it. That may prompt a quicker solution. However, as in the case of my router return/replacement one can take just so much frustration before jumping ship for another product.

fghamilton wrote:
Wow. This is enlightening. I've been facing the same issues as many posters with A6200 - needing to reinstall drivers. I don't haven't I'll have to try the pulling and reinserting the adapter but the couple of times I tried that earlier I had no success. My initial problems stemmed from trying to set it up with a Linksys EA6500. I won't bore you with details but suffice to say that after 3 days of losing internet connectivity along with frequently losing just wireless connection caused me to replace the EA6500 with an ASUS RT-AC66U which solved the loss of internet drops. While waiting for the replacement, I had the A6200 linked with a Linksys WRT54G router and had no wireless/internet losses for 4-days. Now that I'm back to ~250-300 Mbps speeds the wireless losses reappear. I suspect drivers and think perhaps the stand-alone 1.0.0.26 is a tad more stable than the version with Genie nut still I have wireless drops. I may give the 1.0.0.23 a try next time it drops. In the long haul, I may just search for a good "n" adapter and wait for the "ac" adapters to get a life. In summary, if anything is encouraging with this adapter/firmware/support issue, it is the voices being raised about the sad state of it. That may prompt a quicker solution. However, as in the case of my router return/replacement one can take just so much frustration before jumping ship for another product.

An update ~8 hours later:

Just as I was preparing for finally hitting the pillow my 'puter beeped and I noticed I'd lost wireless again. In no mind to try to sleep, I deleted the 1.0.0.26 driver and installed the 1.0.0.23 (with Genie). It looked OK for the time it took to try out the WEB and scan a stream or 2 on line at somewhere after midnight so I wrapped it up.

Today 5:30 AM EST: First thing I did was check the desktop icon and sure enough wless was disconnected. When I had installed the 1.0.0.23 drivers I had plugged the adapter in a usb port on the front of the PC thinking the clutter on my desk (wless printer, smart phone, PC monitor) in close proximity might have some bearing on the problem. Since it dropped even in the PC port I grabbed a USB extender cord and placed the A6200 in the provided dock, running the longer cord up to an uncluttered position on my bookshelf. I only had to plug the adapter in the port and wireless came back at 300 Mbps and is still there at 7:40 AM after a few WEB excursions, searches, downloads ,email, etc which is encouraging.

I'm going to let it stew for a (hopefully) few days and if I still have not dropped I will attempt 1.0.0.26 again with the adapter now located on the bookshelf and update here.

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