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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.
A few more observations in case these help Netgear.
I use Acrylic Wi-Fi Professional to view network performance.
I've tried using Acrylic with an A6200 (both V1.0.0.26-1, Win 10 version and V1.0.0.35), an A6210 (V1.0.0.34), and a Linksys WUSB6300. With the Linksys everything works flawlessly, it's rock solid for days and I can run speedtest.net and it's still solid. With the A6200, Acrylic (and Windows 10) stop seeing wireless networks after a few minutes. This is whether or not I have a wireless connection, so even when there's no data being sent or received wirelessly. If I make a wireless connection and run Acrylic with the A6200 or the A6210, when I run speedtest.net Acrylic will stop with a lost ellement error. This is 100% repeatable. Again, all of this works flawlessly with the Linksys.
I can use Acrylic to capture Pcap and send to Netgear if this will help.
By the way, I'm seeing much better sensitivity with the A6200 and A6210 than the Linksys when they're working, we just need the drivers fixed!
I have the A6200 on a W10 upgraded from W7 and have been trying to fix mine because the device does not detect 5 Ghz networks. I followed the directions regarding installing the driver first, then plugging it in, as well as updating to the newer Windows 10 driver to no avail.
However, I did notice something interesting. It turns out the driver can only see 5 Ghz channels available in China (I am not in China). It cannot see channels 100-144 which my router usually auto-configures to, but it can see channels like 44-48, 157-165. Unfortunately, these channels are congested in my area, but 100-144 are much better. I've looked into the Advanced tab on the driver property settings window (from Device Manager), but the options there seem to indicate it's a 802.11bg driver--there are no options for 802.11ac or 802.11n. Also, and most importantly, there are no options to change the region. I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled drivers several times (and USB bus drivers) but I cannot get driver options to change the region or drivers that are pre-configured for the US. Please help. It seems like it's a driver installation issue as a friend with the same adapted DOES have region options.