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Bad CellID on Nighthawk M1
Hi, New member here. I have an MR1100 NightHawk M1 mobile router with T-Mobile hotspot SIM. The location is on the edge of mobile service so I have external antennas connected to the router. The ...
Sorry, no dice. You'll need something more flexable / configurable like a Mofi or similar.
Alternatively, you could try a highly directional antenna w/wo an amplifier and point it at the tower you want to use.
The Mofi website seems a bit stale.
Cradlepoint or SierraWireless are the next step up. But they are more expensive
SierraWireless is what they use in police cars and fire trucks for example
https://www.sierrawireless.com/products-and-solutions/routers-gateways/vehicle-networking/
They have new LTE Advanced models and ones that even support FirstNet (as you would expect). But you'll need dedicated power and a proper antenna. But, for Rural home networking you'd probably have that already.
Thank you for all the great advice. Maybe Netgear can add this as a feature request. It seems that tower blocking would be a great expert feature to the products.
Per your advice on more pro solutions I wonder if adding a cell booster with directional antenna(s) would not be an intermediate solution. That way I could get signal on my phone and on the cell router while still keeping the M1
JSchnee21 wrote:The Mofi website seems a bit stale.
Cradlepoint or SierraWireless are the next step up. But they are more expensive
https://www.cdw.com/search/networking-products/wireless-networking/wireless-broadband-routers/ Krogerfeedback
SierraWireless is what they use in police cars and fire trucks for example
https://www.sierrawireless.com/products-and-solutions/routers-gateways/vehicle-networking/
They have new LTE Advanced models and ones that even support FirstNet (as you would expect). But you'll need dedicated power and a proper antenna. But, for Rural home networking you'd probably have that already.
Great post. It was much needed. Love your simplistic style of explanation. :)