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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.
Oops, Kraster is right. I spelled out my best analysis of the problem but forgot to mention solutions (other than waiting for MediaTek, RealTek and Broadcom).
I have the A6100, so this may or may not help A6200 folks. For those that cannot see their 5Ghz bands:
1) In your router, (Wireless Network tab or equivalent) set the 5GHz SSID channel to a non-DFS channel (36-48, 149-165)
2) To start, make sure your channel width is set to 20 or 20MHz and channel bonding is off if you have that setting...they are usually on the same page as #1
3) Ensure your USB adapter driver properties are set to region 0 if you are in the US. If you're elsewhere, I'd recommend setting it appropriately
This should get you connected. However, with 20MHz channels and no channel bonding, your throughput will be fast, but not as fast as it could be. Start with bonding off and 20MHz width in order to verify this is your problem. After that's done and you can connect, you can experiment with increasing the width to 40 and/or 80. However, keep in mind, when you increase the width, you are using multiple channels (the one you select is *usually* the center I believe)...none of which can be a DFS channel. If you go 80, that limits your channel choice to only two channels (for me, it's 44 or 157 but some routers can be configured by selecting a upper/lower, upper/upper, lower/lower, lower/upper configuration which would change the channel numbers that work while keeping out of DFS).
If DFS and channel bonding are things you're not confortable with messing with, sticking with bonding off (or 20MHz width) on any of the channels in item 1 is still *very* far from slow.
After updated drivers come out (via Netgear or Windows Update), set your router back to auto (5GHz channel) will probably improve your speed a bit by avoiding the congested non-DFS channels.
Correction: A6200; not A6100