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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.
Can u show us the tact of the bat?
bat file ... use your own router ip, and wifi details ...
just create a task to run every minute...
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echo off
echo Testing wifi
ping -n 2 -w 200 -l 64 192.168.1.1 & if errorlevel 1 goto reset
goto done
:reset
echo Restarting Wireless Adapter
netsh wlan disconnect
netsh wlan connect ssid=dd-wrt name=dd-wrt interface=Wi-Fi
:done
echo done
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you can add something like the following after the connect line to log the number of resets that happen..
echo %DATE% %TIME% Restarted wireless adapter. >> c:\\reset.log
you may also want to hide the execution of the script to prevent popups... lots of ways to do that via google....
just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, now it's to the point to where I start up my computer and it's already not connecting. Have to unplug and plug it again and it connects then drops in a few minutes.
ed_di I'm gonna try out your batch file and see how that works out for me. Thanks for sharing that!ok so this is different. When I was testing that batch command to reconnect the wifi, I got many chances to use it...and I noticed that something was causing the device to have a failure of some sorts. Device manager was showing an exclamation over my wifi adaptor icon and it was displaying the "The device cannot start" message. Anyone else having that problem?
Regarding 5GHz band problems (this does not pertain to connection drops)...
After more research and testing, I'll have to give Netgear a pass on this one. It turns out the 5Ghz channels that these USB adapters aren't seeing (and where most of our 802.11ac routers auto channel select to) are all DFS channels. US users are the most heavily hit by this. The core driver that Netgear uses to develop their driver (the Realtek chipset these units use is RTL8812AU), essentially dropped or failed to implement correctly DFS channel support in their Windows 10 drivers. So far, 802.11ac USB adapters which don't implement DFS in Windows 10 are *not* limited to Netgear. It's common to devices using 802.11ac Mediatek and Realtek chips (and possibly others as well). Routers, computers with baked-in ac wifi, and mobile devices don't use these chips, and thus are not having this problem. The W10 USB 5Ghz ac problem is extremely widespread (verified by searching other adapter support forums, the MS Windows forums, etc). I think we're all going to end up waiting for the chipset vendors to fix their core driver problems before our problems get resolved.
Unfortunately, the extremely rare USB 2 & 3 802.11ac adapters which *are* using DFS channels correctly in Windows 10 have other problems (connection drops, slow speeds, no internet access despite being connected issues, etc.).