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Windows 10 (A6100 A6200 A6210) Installation Heads Up
As a heads up, DO NOT install Netgear's driver package for your A6xxx device on Windows 10. It permanently removes Windows 10’s ability to access the WiFi Connections list. Instead, use the defa...
For problems with the windows 10 included driver with the a6210 (e.g. no 5ghz networks visible) just use the latest driver from mediatek (5.1.21.0).
It is the newer version of the driver that came with windows 10 and with it i can join my 5ghz wlan, which wasnt able with the old one!
The chip in the A6210 is a Mediatek MT7612U.
This is a total stuff up by NETGEAR for firmware update/upgrade to Windows 10
I have no faith in this brand any more,
They have had made no attempt to resolve this and platitiudes only go so far.
I cannot believe an organistation release so call ed updates when it causes so much grief.
I wil be getting rid of NETGEAR all of it, it all seems to fail from router to extender to adapter.
So bad