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A6210 Wireless Adapter Keeps Disconnecting
My A6210 adaptor keeps disconnecting. I am running windows 10, have installed the latest drivers, disabled the "allow windows to turn off adaptor to save power" option and used windows diagnostics to...
Forgive hijacking but I have same issues as you as we are W10 users, with latest drivers on adapter, router and with W10 doing robo updates. Doing "A6210 Wireless Adapter Keeps Disconnecting" searches finds a multitude of hits from W7 upwards using a-z drivers. I need to search A6210 users using W10 that have no real issues but all i find are the ones that do.
Do ANY of the forum users uses both the A6210 and Windows 10 with no issues on the 5g band? I would also like to see what is hardware certified but fat chance, no?
I can only add that if I drop rate to 130Mbps, everything is fine! Once the rate is raised via router to 300Mbps, I'm back on ice with the disconnects. Once disconnected I normally have to manually reconnect unless doing restart or such. Reconnects can take two minutes or seconds. At the 130Mps all is ready before desktop fully booted. I have not tried adapter on a second machine but will just to rule out my AsRock motherboard and USB 3.0 ports. I monitor my connections with inSIDDer for both link quality, 100%, signal strength and to avoid my channel hopping neighbors.
I post here as tech support are still much at the script level after two calls..LOL would U want their job?
Ditto here, but on Win 7 x64.
This morning i couldnt get the A6210 to connect at all, no matter what I did. Always "Limited access", whether using DHCP or static IP. When using static IP, the config never saves the gateway IP (ie save settings>re-open dialog>gateway IP is blank).
I've reverted to an old WiFi adapter which works perfectly every time. It's slower of course, but at least it works...I simply dont have time to continually troubleshoot this piece of junk from Netgear/Mediatek.
..and today, three disconnects using steam so back to best buy; which these are on sale. no thanks...i'm done beta testing $50 usb adapters. good luck all.
Hi Diggo,
The default should be followed on the settings you have provided. Some are optional to configure. The MAX speed is set to 2.0 by default which you can configure to be set to 3.0.
The "Always set U2 mode in ETRON & ASMedia USB 3.0 Host control" is still a known issue as indicated on the release notes.