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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.
This is pretty dang silly. I've watched this board for well over week now waiting and hoping an update would come each night, I can't believe no one at this company hasn't been affected by this. I've enjoyed my Netgear router and the a6210 was a heaven send, I planned on just getting an AC card, but tried it out and loved the speed. Now that the most widely used operating system has been updated (which a secret to no one) I can no longer use the 5Ghz connection. I've got an AMD 8350, which seems to be my downfall per this thread, but I feel like I'm being punished by Netgear.
Sincerely,
Update4WinX(and get your sh^t together)
Adding my name to those with issues. My A6210 will connect, but the connection is wildly unstable. I can sit and watch my desktop ping my router and 5 or 8 packets will drop out at a time, followed by a string of 10 or 20 good ones. Sometimes the connection drops out completely for 30 seconds or so.
Windows 10, installed the mediaTek drivers and updated my intel chipset drivers to latest.