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UweK
Sep 27, 2018Tutor
MR1100-100 LTE router : can I configure it to act only as WiFI repeater ?
Hello, have the Nighthawk MR1100-100 in my mobilehome / motorcaravan and works technically fine.
here my issue and question :
to save LTE datavolume I am using Dataoffloading as much as I can in campsite or open Wifis ( as recommended in the manual )
but when the wifi disappears ( pretty often on campsites ), the connection switches back to LTE, consumes my datavolume and I don‘t know about it. ( netgear telephone support told me that I can see this on the screen. true, but seriously: who checks the connection on the display every time, especially in a car or boat )
so what I looking for is a setting to let the router only work a wifi router, no fallback to LTE ( configurable with a setting in the app )
Having such a configuration and if the wifi is gone, I will see it on the tablet ( internet does not work ) and can decide what to do. But at the moment I can't easily see that the wifi of the campsite is gone and will happily download all the app updates from my mobile data volume.
is this possible, a good idea or am I the only one with that problem ?
at the moment I have bought a second ( very old and slow ) only wifi repeater to overcome that problem. When I am on a campsite I switch the Nighthawk off and use the other one. Not great to have a great product like the netgear and being forced to have such a poor workaround
many thx so far and best regards from Germany
Hi Christian, found the setting ‚Daten im Heimnetzwerk‘, sounded to me as something around local wifi at home, hence I never played with that.
Toggling this disables Mobile Data - exactly what I wanted !!
connecting to a wifi with mobile data disabled works, but the network diagramm of the App shows LTE not connected (correct) and Wifi not connected as well ( not correct ).
The display on the router itself shows lTE not connected, but Wifi connectd ( which is correct )
its a bit misleading, but seems to work. A bit disappointing that Network support has no idea and clearly told me on the phone ‘not possible’
many thx for your help
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