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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.
For those of you that are having issues with disconnects and dropoffs with the MediaTek driver, you need to go to the adapter properties and set region codes for 2.4 and 5 ghz. USA would be region code 0, roaming sensitivity to disable, enable prefer 5G, multimedia/gaming disable, AP Mode Force disable, IEEE802.11h disable. I have also set mine to connect at 5G only. Rock solid with no issues.
Thanks dug_less. I had my settings exactly the same except for having it set to 2.4g + 5g. Since my network is only 2.4g, I set it to that and have been rock solid for an hour, which is a huge improvement. Seems to suggest a problem lies in the frequencey roaming. Maybe when the N tries to look for a 5g connection to glom onto in addition to the 2.4.
zmaniacz,
Please keep us posted within the next few days on how this fix works. I should have my PC motherboard upgrade completed by them. My pc is in the basement (no ethernet) I have to make a decsion on whether to get a powerline adapter.
Thanks