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Aspirant

Sep 02, 2015

Windows 10 won't let me use WNA3100 anymore

Hello, I'm using Windows 10 and I'm having problems with the WNA3100 adapter. Three days ago I booted my PC and the adapter somehow stopped working as usual, the adapter had a poor blue light instead...

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Sep 03, 2015

Welcome to Community!

Please try to use the standalone driver instead of the driver with the genie. Uninstall first the driver including the Genie.

Regards,

JamesGL

Community Team

NobodyRR
Aspirant
Sep 06, 2015
I've formatted my PC and reinstalled Win 10 because I was having a lot of problems with some apps. I've installed the genie driver, It worked but the adapter stopped working again, so I uninstalled the genie driver and I installed the standalone version, but I have the same problem.
After 10 minutes the adapter keeps disconnecting itself, it says that the connection is limited and it shuts down on his own, when I remove it, it starts working again but it keeps disconnecting over and over...
- JamesGL
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Sep 08, 2015
  NobodyRR,
  
  Have you tried disabling antivirus or firewall of your computer?
  
  Regards,
  
  JamesGL
  
  Community Team
  - NobodyRR
    Aspirant
    Sep 09, 2015
    Yes, I've tried and I still have the same problem..