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A6210 not being detected and no led light
Hello! I have a problem with my wifi adapter and id like a solution, basically when i had my netgear upgrade my thing didnt work anymore it was not detected, i tried it on my brothers computer and it...
I did try it, and it didnt work in his computer also.
but i already have the solution, seems like it doesnt work om the newest windows 10 update so i u installed that newest update and i did go back to the older versions of windows 10 and it works perfect.
Ok, I seem to have solved for my machine and wanted to see if it helped others on here with this adapter.
1. Run the file: A6210_v1.0.0.35 and as usual wait for the 'Plug in your adapter' message.
2. When you get the 'Adapter not detected', click Cancel
3. Leave the adapter plugged in, do not remove it and go to Device Manager.
4. Under Network adapters you will see: 802.11ac Wireless LAN Card
5. Double click on this and goto the Driver Tab.
6. Click on 'Update Driver'
7. Now choose 'Browse My computer for Driver Software'
8. Now click, 'Let me choose from a list of device drivers on my computer'
9. Choose Netgear A6210 Wifi usb 3.0 adapter and click Next. The driver will be installed
10. Close down device manager.
11. Go to your wifi / internet iceon in the bottom right of your screen. If you are wired, change this to wireless and then connect to your network.
12. The adapter should now be working
13. I then went to here: http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/discover/apps/genie.aspx?cid=wmt_netgear_organic and downloaded the genie software independently of the A6210 software and installed it.
14. It actually worked and now runs ok under Windows 10 with anniversary. Its a pain, I know, but until Netgear sort themsleves out it works, and to be honest the adapter itself is very good and when connected to my virgin Superhub 2 I'm getting 140mbs download. compared to 10 over my very old powerline adapters.
Hope this helps someone.
Thanks
Glenn1951 and Koidave thank you!
-- Glenn1951, your first note about MediaTek driver caught my eye so I went and just downloaded and installed it. Finally got the 802.11ac Wireless LAN card to show up in my Devices. (MediaTek, driver date 4/21/15, driver version 5.1.22.0) I searched MediaTek and that driver number and got a link that had 5.1.25.0 listed, but when I installed it, it showed as 5.1.22.0. I used this link and the top section. Click in the part number column to download.
http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/
-- Koidave, I followed your steps to just update the driver for the 802.11ac Wireless LAN card to the Netgear A6210 driver instead of the MediaTek. I had to try it twice. First time I somehow got an autoselect of MediaTek. The next try I saw MediaTek and Netgear drivers show up. I selected the Netgear and got it working. First I tried to connect and had the most terrible speed. (Worse than my older WNA3100 with terrible speeds.) I thought maybe it was because my laptop started to download an update. (I sure need to control when it downloads them!). I disconnected because I realized I was connected on the 2.4GHz band. When I connect to the 5GHz band I finally struck speed gold. I have top speeds finally that match what my provider gives.
My hardware and drivers:
-- I have Windows 10 with the latest update as of 11/13/2016. (It just finished downloading them with my dirt slow speeds on my old WNA3100 earlier tonight while I was fighting the install of the new A6210 adapter.
-- I *do not* have USB 3.0 and was worried that was a mix in my problem, but it's not.
-- The Netgear Adapter is A6210_v1.0.0.35
So glad to finally have this working without having to wait and wait. I was ready to find out how to get my WNA3100 to work better, but finally got it! Thank you so much!
(I never bothered with the organic link you gave for the genie. It didn't make sense to me since this is an adapter, and my router had nothing to do with this install problem.)
You are more than welcome!! I, through trial and error, got it working a few weeks back! I could not remember the "exact" steps I used. Koidave on the other hand laid it out step by step on how to do it to rectify the problem, get the adapter working AND the Genie program to work PROPERLY! The Genie program isn't neccessary as you well know but I, personally, like having it to see what's transpiring under the hood!
I, for the life of me, CAN NOT understand what's taking Netgear so long to post a solution?? Between Koidave and I, we did their job and using his step by step instructions will have everyone up and running! I firmly believe I have the solution to this nightmare and it IS NOT a Win 10 problem. To me, I'd go to court to aver it, the problem lies in their, Netgears, program and is a very simple matter of changing the line to read from a 9050 to 9053 OR make it check for either/ both 9050 or 9053 and install the CORRECT program???
Again thanks and you're welcome but koidave deserves 99.99% of the praise for his step by step remedy! :smileyvery-happy:
Me, I only pointed out the problem(?) in their program!!
P.S. you really didn't have to update the driver from MediaTek to the Netgear A6210 driver. If you had looked closely in the Device Manager at the driver properties before and afer you updated, you would have noticed that they were one and the same, date and all! I did and in fact somehow I got myself switched back to the MediaTek driver and have blinding speeds! Either one works "FANTASTICLY"!! Again koidave is the man!! I give credit where credit is due!!