[dallaskruse]

Have you considered installing a custom ROM on those tablets? That could eliminate the problem altogether or at least allow the steps you took above to possibly work.

Mike

I have zero clue how to do that. What i DO know how to do is completely mess up one of my tablets by somehow getting it into FastBoot mode (or something like that)....then the screen cracked so I dumped it and bought another tablet.

Here's a clue to something...

This tablet runs Android 7. When I set it all up and used it as the Master on my Wifi with no Internet, I was able to tell the tablet to ignore the fact it had no internet access.

I slaved 2 of my tablets to test it and they seemed to work thus far.  I bought an Insignia 11.6 FLEX (android 7).

So, maybe the issue was with the MASTER tablet running Android 5? I don't know. I'll run more tests tomorrow.

Re: Custom ROM ... I would have no clue how to do such a thing