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Model A6210 (AC1200 USB Adapter) Install causes HP printer to fail
8/22/21 - I just recently tried to install the A6210 USB adapter on my HP 2000 Lap Top runnning Window 8.1. The PC has 8GB of RAM and it is 64 bit. All the USB ports are 2.0. The A6210 is supposed to...
I disagree with that.
Again, this printer driver has been functioning and working alonside other USB hardware for years. Why HP did not make a driver after VISTA for this printer I can't say. WIndows 7/8 is really just an incremental upgrade to VISTA, that is all it is. Win 10 did turn a new corner.
What I think is happening is that the AC6210 driver is conflicting with other devices in memory, that is the AC6210 is seizing memory that it should not which is in use by other devices. So, because the printer driver has beem working alongside other devices for years and along comes this new device, I think it more likely that the new device, the AC6210 is creating the issue.
As a follow up to this discussion....
I went to Best Buy, discussed thoroughly my Netgear/HP printer observation with one of their techs.
His comment was that he thought Netgear had a bad driver.
...and he had heard of such conflicts before.
So, I picked up the Linksys AC1200 version, installed it, it connected just fine, and it did NOT hose the printer!
So, I have to say with reasonable certainty based upon this experiment, that it is the Netgear AC6210 install that has an issue and not the printer.