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UweK
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Sep 27, 2018
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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 

  • UweK's avatar
    UweK
    Oct 05, 2018

    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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