tenfoot

chuckebaby

mcdonalk
Sonar should operate reliably without an internet connection.

if its not set up for offline activation you'll get drop outs if your internet connection is not staying connected.

No. You won't.  See post above.

Sonar needs no internet connection even if authorized originally via CCC.
I used to disable internet for Sonar via firewall and it always worked just fine.
But I have noticed that projects take much longer to load if there is a NIC present (with internet connection or not) so now I disable the NIC with a batch command when running Sonar.
Sonar has never once opened in Demo mode.

I too activated offline and am getting DEMO mode now. This may be because I moved the downloaded activation file and removed the HDD it was on. Once I reinsert the drive I'll move it to the Sonar directory (where it should be) and report.

OK it's not that I moved the file, response file does not work. Resubmitted old request and imported new response file. Still in DEMO mode.
 
Had to submit a new request and import the new response before DEMO mode vanished. We'll see for how long this time.
 
Once Sonar is activated it should remain that way. No changes were applied to any of it's files to trigger DEMO mode.