MR1100 is it a standard ethernet port that will assign an IP over DHCP?

Question

I want to plug in a grandstream ht802 voip ata adapter into the ethernet port of the MR1100 so i can use my standard phones over my voip account. I have checked the literature and it doesnt mention that it is a standard ethernet port that will issue an IP address over DHCP. I asked netgear uk support and they didnt know either it only mentions "ethernet data offloading" or using as an access point in a wired environment like a hotel.
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The device is over 100 miles away in a remote office and i dont want to travel if it isnt a standard adapter has anybody used it in this or similar way?

vanillaknot · Answer

I&nbsp;can't guess who at NG would have said such a thing. My mr1100 is running both wifi and wired ethernet. I would not have gotten it, if it had such a limitation.
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That said,&nbsp;at Settings -&gt; Setup -&gt; Mobile Router Setup, if you turn on IP Passthrough, it will disable wifi.

vanillaknot · Answer

It's a perfectly ordinary ethernet port, and the mr1100's DHCP server answers on the wire. I use my mr1100 as my household's gateway device -- I gave up on Comcast last winter -- and I have printers, laptops, and other wired devices connected to the house network that hear DHCP from the mr1100. Both its wifi and its wired ethernet are the same /24 network.

Biobob · Answer

I spoke with netgear who said that once you plug in the wired port it switches off the WiFi, does this happen on yours or do you not use the WiFi part. &nbsp;I don’t have the device to prove this as it’s at a remote location where it needs setting up

Biobob · Answer

I drove to the site to try it and it is worse than Netgear said, the port doesn’t work at all on anything other than sending data to another router. I tried it in my 2 laptops, nothing, tried it in my grandstream adapter still nothing. Plugged it into a switch then tried still nothing.
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tried a snom ip phone that works perfectly on my network still nothing, no matter what settings I changed.
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switched the settings for Ethernet in the router still nothing. It is a total waste of time and only any good for WiFi connections.

vanillaknot · Answer

I can't say why yours is causing grief. For myself, at this moment, via VPN to my home&nbsp;where the endpoint is an ethernet-connected-to-mr1100 host, I am&nbsp;reaching both wired and wifi hosts.
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Is your ethernet&nbsp;port alive at all? Have you configured&nbsp;the mr1100 to disable ethernet standby?
(Settings -&gt; Setup -&gt; Mobile Router Setup -&gt; ethernet standby)
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Objectively, the unit is designed for simultaneous wired and wifi use. If your wired port is not functional, you may have a defective unit. Even being remote right now, I have just configured the wired host to speak both wifi and wired to the 10.0.0.0/24 network there, including DHCP response on wifi while the wired network works.

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MR1100 is it a standard ethernet port that will assign an IP over DHCP?

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