My A6210 adapter stopped working!

[Carlthesnake]

One minute this adapter is working, shut off the computer, came back the next day and it stopped. The light doesn't come on and it is not recognized with I plug it in or take it out. Is there a battery in this? Why would it work one minute and stop the next?

[czargon]

I have the same problem on two different machines both running Win10. Spontaneously, the adapter completely disappears from Device Manager. I tried uninstall / reinstall but the installer can't find the adapter. After a reboot (or two), the device comes back.

On one of my machines this was happening so frequently (like ten to twenty minutes) that I had to give up and revert to an older USB adapter.

I've seen a lot of issues reported online with this adapter, which seems to have had a series of issues with Win10, but no response from Netgear that addresses it.

[JamesGL]

Hi Carlthesnake,

The adapter might be on sleep mode. Try this article to disable it.

https://kb.netgear.com/20940/Fix-wake-up-issues-for-USB-wireless-adapters

[Carlthesnake]

Thank you, so much I looked at all my USB ROOTS and none of the boxes were checked. I appreciate your suggestion but it didn't work. Does anyone know what that button on the devise is for?

[czargon]

I went into the Windows power settings and the Customize dialog and turned off entirely the options for USB hibernation /  power mgmt (sorry, don't have a PC in front of me right now so I don't recall the exact wording). I've been running like that for 48 hours and so far no recurrence.

[Carlthesnake]

nothing works