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M1100 Connect to Home Router
I live in a rural area. Internet options are few. I decided to try the Nighthawk M1100. I am trying to connect it to my Netgear MR60 Mesh Router to distribute wifi around my house. I can not get ...
I'm having the same issue getting my MR1100 to work over Ethernet with my Pepwave Surf SOHO router. Can you post what ended up working for you? I currently have it working using my Pepwave's WiFi WAN functionality, where it essentially becomes another client of the MR1100's WiFi network. This works, but isn't the way I'd prefer to have it set up.
Thanks! :)
Here's what worked for me.
Connect to your MR1100 by typing in its IP address in the router. Go to Settings in the top left corner, then Setup, and finally Mobile Router Setup. Now in this section change the following settings; turn on IP Passthrough, turn off DHCP, change tethering USB port to charge only, and disable Ethernet Standby.
Now at this point, test the MR1100 Ethernet port to ensure its working. (For this test and rest of the setup use the battery of the MR1100 without the USB plugged in. You can reconnect the power cable after everything is finally setup.) I did this by plugging my MR1100 directly to my iMac. Be sure to turn of wifi and go into network settings and select your ethernet port. If everthing is working fine then now you now the MR1100 is sending it internet feed through the ethernet cable. If it doesnt work please post again and explain the problem.
The next step is to hook the MR1100 to your router. Im not familiar with your router but heres how it worked on mine. When I plugged it in initially it didnt work. I had to log into my router and go through the "setup wizard" function of my router to find the internet. This was a simple and straight forward process. After I ran the "setup wizard" it found the internet provided by my MR1100 and I was up and running. It worked great.
The most frustrating part was getting the ethernet port to work intitially. I accidentially figured out it was the USB charger that was somehow overriding the Ethernet port. When I unplugged the USB the Ethernet port worked.
Im not super savy, but I hope this helps. If you do have to call into netgear support, be ready to spend a couple of hours. But to save some time insist on getting help from someone in the Aircard department. No one else seemed to be competent.
The tether+charge setting is where you controle the USB port from charge only or tether+charge. That shuts off the ethernet until like you did un-plug USB