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varghesesanoj's avatar
Apr 29, 2018
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AT!ENTERCND for MR1100 - Nighthawk M1

Trying to force Band 3 Selection on the Netgear Nighthawk m1 Router, Need the password for AT!ENTERCND to get  this done How do i get to know the password set, currenlty running on firmware  NTGX9X...
  • ErnestTheGreat's avatar
    May 03, 2018

    @varghesesanoj is there a reason why your MR1100 needs to be locked to B3? 

     

    It seems like every time a new Netgear Mobile Router/Hotspot comes out there is a post about AT!ENTERCND command and customers wanting it so that they can lock the device to particular band. Am I the only one that thinks this is a terrible idea? If locking a device to particular band was a good idea there would option in the UI that would allow you to set your device to that band so it can always connect to it. 

     

    ISPs do a lot of load balancing on their towers and networks to ensure everyone gets their fair share of bandwidth so it is best to leave the device on auto band selection to ensure that you do not have connection/performance issues and let the network and device decide the best band for you to connect to.

     

    Let’s put it this way say you get the entercnd command and lock your device to B3 what happens when the ISP network sees that your device is not responding to its parameters/instructions to connect to their band of choice and kicks the device of the network or you forget that the device was locked to B3 and go to area that does not have B3 and can no longer connect? You end up thinking that there is issue with device and call your ISP/Netgear support they don't know that you locked device to B3 and end up spending lot of time to figure things out and end up replacing device because they think it’s bad.  It just ends up being an issue that takes up everyone’s time for no reason just because someone wanted to lock the device to particular band.

     

    Apart from the reasons listed above you can't expect Netgear or any other manufacturer to provide the !ENTERCND command and give you unrestricted access to the device at that point they might as well hand over all the intellectual property and the complete source code right?