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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.
I recently purchased an A6210 WiFi USB Adapter.
When I plugged the device in, my computer recognized it.
I see no LED's lit up on the device.
The device won't give me WiFi currently.
When installing the v1.0.0.35 software, I make it through the program until I am prompted to, "Insert the wireless USB adapter into your computer. Click Yes to continue."
I do that only to see the prompt over and over again after I click yes.
Can anything be done other than waiting for the new software to be publicly released?
Or am I better off returning the product?
I CAN NOT take credit for this as it comes from koidave, a fellow sufferer from this! Follow his step by step instructions and you "should" be up and running in no time! koidave and myself have been trying to help others, like yourself, out! Quoting koidave.
"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 icon 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"
This has been ongoing for some time now. If you read koidaves and my back and forth exchanges you'll see we pretty much colaborated on this, I fumbled my way to getting it to work but koidave did it and posted his step by step way to victory! If you read my latest posts to koidave and pdtommy you'll see Netgear is close to having a solution/ fix forthcoming! Exactly when I don't know but I can say, when you get it working it's "blazing" fast! Good Luck!
P.S. I did follow koidaves post exactly and I know it works. I had uninstalled everything Netgear related and followed his advice and "IT WORKED"!! I kept my adapter and love it! Let us know how you make out.