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ReadyShare Unavailable without Internet Connection - WHY?
I'm obviously not a tech guru - but it seems incredibly moronic that, given the R6400 is the router - WHY that it can't route traffic directed to ITSELF when the Internet is down? Why does it so badl...
Tibbee wrote:
But, just to toss in my non-guru info - I think there was a firmware update that introduced the "USB_Storage" drive, that was formerly accessed via just a letter, "T" for instance.
That seems to be the same pattern as it always has been.
It depends on how you set up the folders in the browser graphical user interface (GUI). There are several ways of labelling attached devices:
There hasn't been any noticeable change in how ReadyShare works in some years.
I can be watching a movie on readyshare - then the Internet connection drops, and the file can instantly no longer be accessed.
Not here. I wonder if anyone else has seen that.
I referenced another post, with a few other users adding that they were experiencing the same issue?
It's easy enough to test. Just start streaming a movie on VLC - I'm using a Firestick, but it happens regardless of which device or platform, KODI experiences the same issues, for instance? - and then just disconnect the modem.
Once the internet is gone, the router apparently loses its mind - demanding that the Internet tell it who readyshare is? I was just hoping to find a diaper? Some command I could send to the router to reassure it that it will ALWAYS be readyshare, to stop asking the Inernet about it?
I was just thinking Netgear possibly introduced some new feature where a local readyshare could be viewed from a non-local device seeking it on ye olde internet - or something of that sort? Or they switched that up somehow? Not a guru, so no clue.
In my vanilla setup - the drive was formerly "T:" and then it became by default both a "T:" AND a "USB_Storage", with all files then accessible via "USB_Storage". I didn't make any choice about it - I just accepted however Netgear wished to handle the drive. As a non-guru, I'm very hesitant to do anything that's not vanilla.
But something has changed, and it broke what formerly worked perfectly fine in my vanilla setup. Just not sure when?
I just finally got aggravated enough the other night to finally post about it. My internet just kept popping in and out all night, I'd had a few shots of whiskey... and the same thing happens regardless of which brand of whiskey? Even the good Scotch...
Testing for my issue should be simple enough, though - no internet, no readyshare. Internet reconnects, readyshare reconnects.