Configuration:

- brand spanky new hotspot with latest and greatest firmware downloaded on it

- using my iMac to connect to and manage the wifi hotspot via 192.168.1.1

- netgear R6400 home router, plugged into cable modem

My steps:

(1) I plugged the wifi hotspot into my home router. then enabled data offloading via ethernet. my wifi connection between iMac and Hotspot dies. I mean DEAD. So I go look and see a big red screen on hotspot ... dup IP addr. Ok ... my R6400 uses the same admin IP addr. Figured out this problem but it seems to me it would have been possible to catch and complain without killing the wifi connection between hotspot and admin genie app running on the iMac. Um ... error recovery? Unplug - reboot - reconnect - login. If I were in Netgear test, I'd add this scenario to the test bucket. Crazy.

(2) So, I plugged the ethernet cable directly from cable modem into my hotspot. A glance at the manual says that I must have only the 2G wifi profile enabled. It also says I should manually reboot the hotspot but the hotspot seems to be doing this all by itself. Hmm. Ok ... so I am plugged directly into cable modem with only the 2G network up. I then connect with my iMac over the 2G network and the hotspot genie app says that (1) data offloading is working and (2) ethernet is not connected. This sounds like a definite maybe to me but nope it doesn't seem to be doing data offloading.

So, I've not been able to get this feature working whatsoever and I'd really like to use it. Can anyone see something I missed?

Forum Discussion

Ethernet Data Offloading ... how do you get it to work?