New A6200 doesn't connect after restart.

Is anyone using the Mediatek driver by itself? Ever since removing all the Netgear software and using the driver supplied by the company that made the chip Netgear is using, I have had zero issues with my A6210. It reconnects to my 5GHz network on every reboot and doesn't spontaneously disconnect.

The A6200 does not use mediatek chipset, only A6210.

Netgear support won't even tell me if they have a newer driver to try since I am "out of warranty" when I am not even asking a warranty question. I am not happy with Netgear's poor treatment of A6200 owners.

For new drivers you can it on support site.

http://support.netgear.com/product/A6200

minions08 wrote:
For new drivers you can it on support site. http://support.netgear.com/product/A6200

That's actually incorrect, because the 1.0.0.35 drivers are not listed there. The Netgear FTP link for those drivers is broken. Netgear support blew me off instead of giving me the driver (or whatever is newer than it).

The driver file inside of the "official" 1.0.0.26-1 driver is ~2 years old and does not fix the non-connection on restart problem.

I am experiencing the same issue on a Windows 7 x64 machine. This includes when using the latest firmware and software drivers for the adapter and my Netgear router. I reboot the computer and connections are visible but cannot be connected to until I unplug and replug in the adapter, which is highly inconvenient as the port is on the back of my tower under a desk. Disabling minimum power consumption does not help at all. I bought this adapter brand new for a high price when it was released for my Windows 8 desktop and it continuously lost connection (I tried all solutions at that time as well to no avail). So it sat dormant for more than a year as I used a PCI adapter and an 8-year-old adapter for my other machine, both worked without a problem. Most recently a firmware update pushed out by Netgear for my router also caused a 50% drop in bandwidth transmission until I downgraded. My prior Netgear router wound up in an infinite boot cycle and could not be cured. So I have had three very poor experiences with my last three Netgear purchases and will never even consider them for any future networking needs. Now I will have to downgrade back to a very old adapter for my Windows 7 machine as I cannot stand this inconvenience of unplugging and plugging back in each boot.

Official firmwares/softwares/Drivers are posted on support site. If it is not on the list then it is beta software/firmware.