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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.
Yes, I did have the problem of not seeing 5GHz networks, as previously posted.
This was fixed by installing the mediatek drivers found in an earlier post.
This was fixed by installing the mediatek drivers found in an earlier post.
Yeah that did work,
I also had to change my 5ghz channel to < 48
anything higher than or including channel 149, makes it undetectable by the A6210
Did you have a similar experience ?
Ahh I've only being using mine at 5Ghz which may have been the reason why I've been having such trouble. Have already downgraded back to Windows 7, so don't have time to keep upgrading/downgrading. I think I'll only upgrade to 10 once a proper driver has been released. Thanks for the info.
OK, I'm using 2.GHz. If I try to use 5GHz, then it's a problem.