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A7000 ongoing support or EOL?
Is the A7000 going to have ongoing support or is it EOL with all these issues under Windows 10? Constantly loosing connection, over and over. I've been through the whole disable Run Switching...
At two years old, the A7000 is nowhere near EOL.
The latest drivers may be a year old, but they should work until Microsoft does something to break the device.
What tells you that the A7000 is the cause of your issues?
having the exact same issue. Device worked fine for a few months and now it cant hold a connection. Same thing happened with my other netgear adapter....
A completely off the wall idea, has anyone tried running this device without any Netgear drivers?
It may be that the generic drivers that come with Windows can hack it.
This is certainly true of some older USB adapters.
After all, the chips in these adapters are not unique to Netgear. It just packages them in its hardware.
For example, I have an Edimax adapter that has Realtek chips and drivers.
Unfortunately, the a7000 does not work without netgear drivers..At all. I paid about 65 dollars for a product that never worked as intended and now can't even hold a connection for longer than 3 minutes. I don't even know why I made an account and posted on these forums. I have yet to see one issue resolved, only temp fixes by end users. Crazy.
Been there, have tried, but the chipset drivers refuse to work under Windows.
The drivers Netgear supply are from Realtek anyway.
You can try to install the drivers without all the other Netgear stuff, various YouTube videos on this, but does not make any difference to me.
Edimax while cheap and short life span, just work fine.
I bought the A7000 thinking it was going give a longer life span, but it's deaf and faillure to keep connection is beyond me. I should have just kept buying Edimax for the price.
A pane of glass stops the A7000 from connecting, Edimax no issue at all.