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Tutor

Feb 22, 2019

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...

Installation

Blanca_O

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Feb 24, 2019

Hi Kasperczak

Welcome to NETGEAR Community!

Please try to set static IP address. Go to Network and Sharing center > Change Adapter settings > Right-click Wireless adapter > Properties > Double-Click IPv4 address > Select Use the following address > input IP address and Gateway in range to your router.

Regards,
Blanca
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Kasperczak

Tutor

Feb 25, 2019

I tried setting a static IP address (which was a good idea) as suggested, but it didn't help. The connection "Wireless Network Connection 4" still says 'Unidentified network' and I am unable to ping anything except the loopback and the host IP that I assigned. I also tried disabling IPv6 but this made no difference.

Any further ideas?