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Drock102
Dec 05, 2016Aspirant
Netgear A6210 Not Found
When I try to install the wifi adapter software it cannot find the adapter. The device manager says it's connected. I can connect to wifi with only the Netgear genie software installed. I'm trying to...
dfir
Dec 08, 2016Aspirant
I managed to get some wireless connectivity, but it was at speeds dramatically reduced from the previous firmware/driver (250-300 mb/s up and down to 20 mb/s or less). Also, in Device Manager, it displays it as a generic Wireless LAN Card, not the Netgear A6210. I can manually reinstall the Netgear A6210 drivers, but it doesn't change the display of the adaptor as a Wireless LAN Card.
The update process also caused Windows 10 to start recognizing my Xbox Wireless Controller Adaptor as an Ethernet connection, for some reason? It only started doing this after the botched update, so I'm sure it must be connected to Netgear. Thanks for that, by the way. I still have no idea how I'm going to be fixing that, if it's even possible.
My advice for all of you: throw the A6210 in the garbage and buy a new adaptor. Just do some research on Windows 10 wireless adaptors and toss this one. Even if you manage to get this working, Netgear will just patch in another firmware update to trash your adaptor. They clearly don't care about Windows 10 stability, because I've been having problems with this adaptor dropping connections since I bought it at least a year ago. Sorry if you spent a lot of money not realizing Netgear doesn't care about you if you're using Windows 10.
I'm now looking at an ASUS adaptor.