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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.
Good try but no prizes.
Installed standalone new driver.22 and rebooted system plus checked its there ok.
Tried 200mb file download x2 and compare - fails on both 5 & 2.4G.
Tried on internal adapter and files compare ok.
Also if I download two test files in parallel on internal adapter it works ok but on A6210 both transfers fail part way.
An ideas most welcome
Had major issues installing the new driver until I rememebred I had to uninstall MediaTek Drivers first. Doh. Once I did that, install was unable to complete and kept showing me the box instructing me to insert the adapter. FInally clicked no, then went into Device Manager and picked update device driver for the card and it found the new netgear driver. Appears to be humming along nicely. No evidence yet of dropped packets, but will be keeping an eye on it.
Thanks!