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NETGEAR USB Control Center utility for MAC OS X El Capitan
NETGEAR USB Control Center utility v 2.22 is not compatible with MAC OS X El Capitan, where to download or make NETGEAR USB Control Center utility with the new MAC OS X ?
Hello All,
You may now download the official release of the USB Control Center Utility for MAC OS 10.11 and above from the link below.
Hi ElaineM,
When will a new version of the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility be released?
Best Regards
Anders
There's still no ETA.
As Apple continuously improve their software, they have just released another version (10.11.2) for developers and our engineers are working closely to get this resolved.
Will keep you all posted.
Thank you all for your patience.
Elaine, I understand you are just the messenger but when I hear at this point "still no ETA" that tells me that Netgear is not able to keep up with OS development, so should not be marketing their routers as Mac compatable.
I now suspect that the Netgear software developers working on this just don't have a workable solution!
On 16th September we were told that "El Capitan is still under beta test and so is the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility", suggesting that they had been working on it. 4 weeks ago we were told that "It's not that we are not ready, we just want to make sure that everything will run and work smoothly with the new OS El Capitan". It seems that we are just being fed BS.
This is not a new scenario for Netgear. It took them 3 months following the Mavericks release in 2013 to produce a beta version fix for this utility, which was then still only being supplied by Netgear Support on request.
My bet is that they have been unable to get around the new SIP (System Integrity Protection) feature in El Capitan. Perhaps their Software Development management should start a conversation with Apple. Then again, if their development has been outsourced to a third-world backwater like their Customer support (and is only as competent) then that probably wouldn't get them very far.
Anyway, we still have at least another 2 months to wait, if the Mavericks experience is any guide. If the number of views on this thread are any guide (down from ~2,500 down to only a few hundred this week), I suspect that a lot of people are just walking away from this and looking for workarounds or replacement solutions. Personally, I am looking at how I might integrate an airport extreme into my network as a print server and walking away from this unreliable utility.
Best wishes to all.
Very disapointing! I have just now tried to insrtall readyShare on my El Cap and finally found this thread. Really should be fixed by now
