NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
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.
UPDATE: I've had a continual connection to my 5Ghz using the latest update and changing some settings (to force USB 3.0 use rather than swapping to USB 2 connection) per email discussions with Netgear for a little more than a week. Now for the caveat: I can watch my connection speed (using Netgear genie) bounce around from 585Mbps to 702Mbps to 867Mbps. While this doesn't disconnect me and reconnect me as it used to do, it does SOMETHING detrimental to my connection because while downloading on Steam I have to continually restart the download, and while drafting a fantasy league it constantly kicked me out of the lobby.
NETGEAR
How has this seriously happened?? How has this gotten so far out of control, an entire MONTH later.
The fix I was given through email makes me uneasy because it seems like I blocked something that was there for a good reason and now I'm just waiting for my MOBO to sh*t itself (or at the very least my USB 3.0 ports) and there be no way to prove it was Netgear's responsibility.