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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.
Is the new Netgear driver not just the repackaged Mediatek driver?
Does Netgear even have any control over the drivers?
The Netgear installer still sucks. It loops forever in the "insert wifi adapter" step. I have to cancel that step, and "update drivers automatically" from the device manager to properly install the drivers. Wish companies would stop BS installers and just supply the drivers for power users.
But I digress... If these are just the mediatek drivers, I expect more intermittent packetloss on my system. Even yesterday the wifi adapter seemed to crash completely: The windows wifi list was completely empty (usually has loads of wifi in the area).
Question, the release notes mention:
- Always set U2 mode in ETRON & ASMedia USB 3.0 Host control
I actually have an Etron USB3 host controller, but you don't mention where you change this. Is it a bios setting? Doesn't appear to be a driver setting.
DarkNeuron,
More than likely it's the mediatek driver wrapped in their netgeine software. Most companies don't make their own boards or the base drivers. If you peel open most similar routers today they have similar internal compents. In if I am not mistaken most 1900AC routers use the same broadcom TurboQAM chipset. The software is what really serperates them, but yes companies should release the base driver in case people have issues with the wrapped driver.
It also should be noted, most networking equipmeht comes out of Taiwan. Netgear is an American company, however their engineers (possibly outsourced?) are based in Taiwan. I know this because I was speaking with one through email to help resolvd the 6210 issues.