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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 morning Community,
Thank you for all of your contributions and posts. After working with a few customers and conducting in-house testing there appears to be various scenarios in which this condition can happen across the three different products. Due to the complexity of this issue, we have found that one set of step may resolve the issue for one product but may not work for the other models. This includes installing the newest firmware following very specific steps to resolve this issue.
We are actively working on beta firmware in addition to finalizing documentation that will assist customers resolve this issue depending on their device and upgrade path to Windows 10. Once the beta firmware and documentation has been finalized and posted, I will provide another update with the location of the beta firmware instructions.
For any users that would like to continue to troubleshoot this issue with NETGEAR support and engineering please feel free to send me a private message with your contact information and we will reach out to your promptly.
We truly appreciate your patience and understanding while we continue to verify and validate the instructions to resolve this issue.
Thank you,
Christine
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