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YumeTsuretekita's avatar
YumeTsuretekita
Aspirant
Jan 18, 2022

Can the MR5200 work without a data connection (i.e., data offloading only)?

I'm looking into the Nighthawk MR5200, particularly because it seems to be one of the few products with both 5G and Wi-Fi 6.   However, I have a use case where sometimes I want to turn data off (pe...
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JohnPeng
NETGEAR Expert
Jan 18, 2022

To answer your questions.

 

1. WiFi offloading is supported. 

2. When using WiFi offloading, you don't need to turn off data. The device will automatically handle the data connection switches between WIFI offloading and WWAN.

 

To be safe, you can also take out the SIM card when doing WiFi offloading.

 

Thanks

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    YumeTsuretekita
    Aspirant
    Jan 20, 2022

    Gotcha thanks for the explanation. Having to remove the SIM card isn't ideal but I suppose it can work out. I'll see what happens I guess.