NETGEAR USB Control Center utility for MAC OS X El Capitan

cleudio, I am a real consumer who has watched this message board since I installed the El Capitan update, and the Netgear Control Center started to freeze and hang. I have been just as frustrated that there has been such slow/no progress toward a solution. For that, I blame Apple (whose software and products of late have not been as smooth and intuitive as in the Jobs era) as I do Netgear (who has not developed a solution or work around for its users, for what was a simple but usefeul function).

At that time, the printer did not work through the router, and I did not think the printer would work through the router without the Netgear utility.  So, like you, I was sitting around waiting for Netgear to update their Control Center, pulling the USB cable out of one computer into another when I wanted to print.

I mentioned Bonjour only because that's how it shows up in my Printer & Scanner pane.  It may be completely irrelevant.

I don't know what changed since September, if anything (and I doubt it was anything related to Netgear, since they have not posted the solution), but I would think it is a relief to know that you might be able to connect your printer to the router and print wirelessly again, after 3 months of waiting like a tool (referring to myself) for Netgear to post a solution, as I was doing.

I posted that it worked for me only because I tried to do it in Sept., and it didn't work, and when I was checking back yesterday, I read another post in this thread that mentioned just connecting it without the Control Center, so I gave it a shot, and it worked for me. Take the solution or leave it, but it takes about 10 seconds to try it.

Please post back if it works (or does not work) for you.  It will only help the community figure out whether it is a universal solution, or just an anomaly that works for a few of us.

(I am running a Late 2011 15" MacBook Pro 2.5GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB memory, a mid-2010 27" iMac with 2.93 Ghz Intel Core i7 and 8 GB of memory, a Netgear R7000 router with firmware v. 1.0.5.48_1.1.79, and a HP 2025dn connected via USB cable to the rear USB 2.0 port of the R7000.)