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pprindeville
Feb 01, 2026Aspirant
M6 and IP-passthrough with routable static IP
I have an M6 Pro (MR6550) and a T-Mobile business internet account, and I'm unable to use the M6 in passthrough mode. The M6 (the hotspot) does some pretty inexplicable things. Like ARP my firew...
pprindeville
Feb 23, 2026Aspirant
And now 6 weeks have passed, and absolutely no progress.
No confirmation that this has been reproduced in the lab, or that a fix is undergoing testing.... or that a drop-dead date has been assigned to getting a fix published...
Shockingly bad technical support.
Not even a pretense of an SLA in time-to-resolution.
But the clincher is that this was a known issue with the M5, so they had foreknowledge of it supposedly before the M6 was even released.