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Netgear A6100 Wifi Adapter suddenly get lagspikes
I've had an A6100 wifi adapter for at least a year now with no problems at all. Last week i suddenly get lagspikes at 3k+ ms. Phones and laptops at the same network is working fine, i have also trie...
I solved it! Yesterday I stumbled upon a thread completely accidentally where somebody was experiencing the same problem. Granted, this solution won't work for you unless you have a Roccat product though.
The problem is the Roccat Swarm software! Upon uninstalling it, my connection becomes completely stable, the problem was not with Netgear at all! Hopefully this can at least raise awareness of this issue, as suspecting a gaming mouse's software does not seem logical at all for networking issues...
It's worth noting that I was able to achieve a stable connection with my A6100 on Windows 10 Home using current standalone drivers (Netgear Genie not installed).
Hi All,
Do you have other devices that works fine or has a stable connection with the router? Try to uninstall and reinstall the driver of the adapter and use the standalone driver instead of the driver with Genie.
JamesGL
Community Team
Hi JamesGL,
I'm glad you have time to help us out :) So I have an Asus dongle that only works on the 2,4GHz band. I tried it out on my laptop a couple of weeks ago (I disabled the device's own wifi adapter using Device Manager) and I got a stable connection with a ping test.
I've also tried installing the standalone driver several times. On some occasions it worked fine for a while, but the connection becomes unstable again after a period of time and starts experiencing the 3k lagspikes. I'm not entirely sure but it seems like my driver keeps changing on every new reboot (currently I have Netgear Genie installed, gonna try uninstalling it now and doing the standalone installation one more time).
Furthermore, the adapter doesn't find any wifi signals after coming back from Sleep mode. I solve that by replugging the adapter and all of a sudden it magically finds wifi signals again. Not a big deal, only slightly annoying.
I'll definitely post it here if the new standalone installation works for me, otherwise assume that it didn't work.