New A6200 doesn't connect after restart.

bradbort wrote:
Hard to tell. They seem really confused. Eventually, I gave up communicating with them, because the debug driver they gave me worked, and they were acting like the gang that could not shoot straight with every "english as a second language" communication.

Is this debug driver for Windows 7? I'm asking because I'm also experiencing frequent disconnects, especially when copying data to/from my NAS. Currently, I'm not even able to copy more than a couple of gigabytes without a disconnect. Obviously, this renders this rather costly adapter completely useless. May it be possible for you to make that debug driver available to me?

I've already tried several suggested solutions, such as updating USB drivers, disable power management, downgrading drivers to 1.0.0.18, but none of them seemed to work. Any other ideas are welcomed!

Sounds more like you have some sort of interference. You might want to move your router's channel away from the competition.

Are these the A6200 drivers or Firmware? I see two available drivers but can't find Firmware?

I wish they would put a new firmware update out to fix this. I am so tired of having to unplug the darn thing every few hours because it just cuts out and won't pick back up until I do. Very frustrating when playing games. Come on Netgear :/

bradbort wrote:
Sounds more like you have some sort of interference. You might want to move your router's channel away from the competition.

This is definitely not my issue, as I'm experiencing exactly the same symptoms as a lot of other people do, which is that upon disconnect, all the wireless networks disappear from the list with the exception of the network you were originally connected to. That network however now only has "limited connectivity" which basically means no network connection whatsoever and you're unable to re-connect to any other network. If you then continue to disable the network adapter, you won't be able to enable it again.

The only known solution so far is to (physically) un-plug the network adapter and plug it in again. Clearly, this is an unacceptable solution for a commercial product.

Well I got mine to work but I don't remember what exact setting i had to change to get it to work. I went into the adapter properties (advanced tab) and changed a few settings and it's been stable the past 6 reboots whereas before I would have to unplug and plug mine back in. here are my settings as they appear on the list:

auto
disabled
loose 11h
auto
auto
higher performance
disabled
none
11a/b/g20/40mhz
enabled
disabled
auto short/long
disabled
none
disabled
2346
auto
802.11a/b/g performance
not present
disabled
disabled
100%
priority and vlan disabled
best rate
best rate
auto
optimize bandwidth
2347
auto
auto
11(20mhz)
disabled


I think I changed the Bluetooth, disconnect upon wired connect, minimum power consumption, roaming decision, and xpress.

Good luck folks! Hope for some these settings work for some of you.

btw I'm on a windows 7 64b.

I've had this same problem - won't connect on startup/restart. I submitted the problem to Netgear support and they provided the solution.. It seems that the A6200 adapter's power-saving mode has been interfering with the WiFi connection. They suggested I disable this feature, and that has solved the problem. This is described in the support article at:

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23352/~/a6200-or-wnda3100v2-wireless-adapter-intermittently-disconnects

My thanks to Netgear Support. They were very helpful.

Jene wrote:
I've had this same problem - won't connect on startup/restart.http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/23352/~/a6200-or-wnda3100v2-wireless-adapter-intermittently-disconnects

Yes, this solution works ... Thank You Jene.

This is interesting.. This problem seems still not resolved!! I bought two wireless adapter and both my wife and I on different Windows 7 configurations have the same issue.

I am still having this same issues with my adapter. I'm about to toss this thing in the trash.

Super annoyed that this is going on after its been an issue for so long. COME ON NETGEAR!!

Windows 7 64x. Had this same issue on 3 different machines. Updated drivers multiple times with no fixes.