I noticed the readyshare shared device has popped up in my finder windows. What is readyshare?
MacOS – What is ReadyShare?
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Best Answer
Readyshare is a Netgear Product
Readyshare was created by Netgear to share services through their various products.
One of it's purposes is to advertise storage from their line of routers and/or wifi access points. It allows you to use a USB device in the router or other Netgear product to share it to other users within your private network. Files can be written to and/or read from the device.
Attributes of Readyshare
Network Storage
Streaming multimedia files within your LAN
File Sharing
Print Sharing
TCP port 20,005
Shares over wireless and wired connections within the LAN