Does handoff work if you are using your mac as a hotspot (via ethernet) for your iPhone?

I have an iPhone 6 running the latest iOS and a MacBook Air 2012 with Yosemite. Once I head back to school, its back to using an ethernet connection for my Air (with an adapter of course) and using this ethernet connection as a hotspot for my phone. Now, I have to keep doing this, since the WiFi is so bad where I live, but I was wondering if Continuity features will still work in this situation? To be clear, the Mac is connected to the internet via an ethernet cable, and the phone is connected to the internet via the WiFi hotspot that my Mac creates. It says on the Handoff feature page that both devices have to be connected to the same Wifi network in order for the feature to work, and I am unsure if this situation satisfies this requirement.

Apple only guarantees full features with 10.8 and later:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5436
I've been using 10.7 without problems so far, but I have not done that much with it.

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Does handoff work if you are using your mac as a hotspot (via ethernet) for your iPhone?

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