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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.
I made the mistake of puchasing this product without first doing proper research only to find how terrible the issues are with Windows 10 still. Every time I boot up my PC and log in the dongle disconnects and takes a half a minute to reconnect again. Every single time without fail.
Will Netgear ever respond to this 26 page thread and actually do something about it???
I registered just to comment. I purchased this sorry excuse for a network card thinking it would boost my speed over an older D-Link USB adapter I am using. Boy was I wrong.
This thing constantly disconnects and I have to reboot, only for it to disconnect over and over and over and over. I cannot for the life of me understand how this product can be such a joke. Netgear is a large company with a ton of resources, and you are telling me they cannot get 1 or 2 people to fix the drivers for Windows 10?
This is pathetic. I will never be purchasing another Netgear product.
Current status for me:
After manual installing the mentioned mediatek driver a few weeks ago and forcing Windows 10 to not take / update any other driver by itself, i have no problems anymore.
5ghz, no disconnect, no bluescreens and USB 3.0 (not 2.0 like with the netgear driver).
Marcus
Cdr_Perkins wrote:Current status for me:
After manual installing the mentioned mediatek driver a few weeks ago and forcing Windows 10 to not take / update any other driver by itself, i have no problems anymore.
5ghz, no disconnect, no bluescreens and USB 3.0 (not 2.0 like with the netgear driver).
Marcus
Which model do you have? I tried the Mediatek driver and got a BSOD on reboot, but I am using the A6200.
Also how did you force Win10 to not update the driver? That would be handy to know. Last time I tried the MediaTek driver I was not able to connect to 5G