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Netgear A6210 - limited access on Windows 7
I recently acquired the A6210 High Gain USB adapter. I have successfully got it to work on Windows 10 as it was automatically recognized. However, on Windows 7 I had to install the Netgear driver and...
Sounds like a problem with Windows.
When I try to connect to a network I get "Limited access".
Where do you see this? Is it the full message? Have you tried the Windows network troubleshooter?
Have you told Windows to treat this connection as "Private" network?
michaelkenward wrote:
Sounds like a problem with Windows.
When I try to connect to a network I get "Limited access".
Where do you see this? Is it the full message? Have you tried the Windows network troubleshooter?
Have you told Windows to treat this connection as "Private" network?
I see the message in the wifi network connection dialogue that pops up when you click the network icon in the taskbar and lists the available networks, and yes, this is the full message. Doing an IPCONFIG returns an IP address of 169.x.x.x, i.e. the Microsoft fallback address.
Although it very rarely does much good, I have tried the troubleshooter, but as expected it could not provide a solution, only a vague message about a "problem" that could not be fixed.
I also tried uninstalling and re-installing the driver but this did not help. The driver re-installed OK. It then prompted for an update and updated OK but the same problem persists.
I didn't tell Windows to treat this as a private network. I need the machine to be internally discoverable so I selected work network.