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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 tried your experiment. I unplugged the Linksys AC1200 and simply plugged in the A6210.
Windows installed it and it worked (without running the Netgear install CD). I'm using it now.
Happily I can also report that the printer also still worked!!!
So, is the smoking gun, the Netgear driver for the A6210?
It seems so to me ......and that it is a reasonable next step for someone at Netgear to look into this.
I hope someone from Netgear is looking at this thread and noting this discussion.
It seems the installation software/driver for the A6210 is flawed.
The only other point I will make is that from a performance perspective, I did not see any advantage of the Netgear over the Linksys. They both had approximately the same through put. The Linksys AC1200 is $10 cheaper.
Does anybody have any experience with the Netgear Night Hawk adapter (AC1900)? Supposedly it is also backwards compatible with Win 8.1 & USB 2.0. Does it really have significantly improved throughput and overall performance (connectivity, range, etc)?
mmills79 wrote:
Does anybody have any experience with the Netgear Night Hawk adapter (AC1900)?
There is no such thing.
AC1900 is not a reliable guide to model number. Many devices come with an AC tag, but it is essentially a label that Netgear, and other brands, attach to hardware to describe wifi speeds.
Perhaps you mean the A7000 USB adapter.
As with anything wifi, there are various factors that affect performance. Slightly younger than the A6100, at least the A7000 does not promise to support 20th century operating systems. It also supports Mac OS X, although Netgear seems to be incapable of producing timely updates for Mac OS. Maybe it is the usual Apple trick of blocking off third party brands from its world.