A6200 Windows 8 support

Looks like a beta driver is now available on the support site.
I will be trying this in a few hours at home.
So far the A6200 worked great in win7.

I have been trying with the Beta Driver. It works for a about 15 minutes then the driver throws an error. Other events like Wireless printing c ause it to fail also. I wanted this product, but support cant tell me when the driver will work for Windows 8 and i cant just wait to connect to the internet. It will have to go back to the store.

how do you get the beta driver to work? I have the files but I don't know what to do with them :(

Can someone tell me what I do with the driver files to get it work for windows 8? not sure if my last post got submitted properly. thanks in advance!

syan319 wrote:
Can someone tell me what I do with the driver files to get it work for windows 8? not sure if my last post got submitted properly. thanks in advance!

I am having a similar problem. Installed the beta drivers and it worked for about one day. Then tried deleting the drivers, reinstalling them and now I cannot install the drivers. Every time I try to update the drivers from the device manager, I get an error message saying the driver cannot be installed - " The system cannot find the path specified" ?

okay so i had the same issue and took me a while to figure it out because every time i went into install it would say something like can't install the file already exists or something of the sort...what i did was open the folder A6200_Win8_43526_6.30.145.4_signed and if you right click on the file bcmwlhigh63, a setup information file, then you will be listed with these options Open, and below it Install. If you hit install, it should install it automatically for you :)

A6200_Win8_43526_6.30.145.4_signed Folder

right click on file bcmwlhigh63 hit install "which is below open"

THERE u go its fixed :D

Yes, the driver installs properly, and the adapter works.....for a brief time......The adapter will not stay connected in windows 8, It worked fine for a week straight in windows 7. When running it on windows 8, every 5/10/15/30 minutes, (random) it will disconnect in one of two error modes, one is: default gateway not available, which is fixed by troubleshooting, but the other one: the adapter is not working because of a driver or hardware issue, that error requires that I unplug the adapter and plug it back in, then it will work for another 10 minutes before randomly disconnecting. I have uninstalled and installed the drivers properly, multiple times, cleaned regesrty in between, did a fresh install of windows 8 even, and made sure that all windows 8 updates are installed and up to date. I'm using the windows 8 beta driver supplied on the official netgear product support site. This needs to stop, has anyone been able to fix this issue?

Two machines tried:
Asus sabertooth 990fx motherboard, amd fx 8350 eight core processor, 16gb ram, windows 8 pro x64

Msi 870ag54 motherboard, amd phenom x4 deneb 865 black edition quad core, 8gb ram, windows 8 pro x64

joeobrien22 wrote:

Yes, the driver installs properly, and the adapter works.....for a brief time......The adapter will not stay connected in windows 8, It worked fine for a week straight in windows 7. When running it on windows 8, every 5/10/15/30 minutes, (random) it will disconnect in one of two error modes, one is: default gateway not available, which is fixed by troubleshooting, but the other one: the adapter is not working because of a driver or hardware issue, that error requires that I unplug the adapter and plug it back in, then it will work for another 10 minutes before randomly disconnecting. I have uninstalled and installed the drivers properly, multiple times, cleaned regesrty in between, did a fresh install of windows 8 even, and made sure that all windows 8 updates are installed and up to date. I'm using the windows 8 beta driver supplied on the official netgear product support site. This needs to stop, has anyone been able to fix this issue? Two machines tried: Asus sabertooth 990fx motherboard, amd fx 8350 eight core processor, 16gb ram, windows 8 pro x64 Msi 870ag54 motherboard, amd phenom x4 deneb 865 black edition quad core, 8gb ram, windows 8 pro x64

I think I figured out where the issue is as I am having the same problem. If I leave the a6200 connected it will not drop off. The only time it does drop off is as soon as I try to access files on the computer from another computer through the HomeGroup. It would seem that the issue with the Windows 8 drives is isolated to networking, everything else works fine.