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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 agree, I'm lucky enough to have a Intel based chipset with a work around, but the support has been atrioucious. I may look elesewhere for networking devices in the future. Netgear had over a year to work on drivers and failed.
You may want to look at ethernet based adapters, like this one:
Maybe if I just bump this thread enough they'll release an official, working Windows 10 driver.