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MR1100 is it a standard ethernet port that will assign an IP over DHCP?
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 t...
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.
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. I don’t have the device to prove this as it’s at a remote location where it needs setting up
I 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.
That said, at Settings -> Setup -> Mobile Router Setup, if you turn on IP Passthrough, it will disable wifi.
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.
tried a snom ip phone that works perfectly on my network still nothing, no matter what settings I changed.
switched the settings for Ethernet in the router still nothing. It is a total waste of time and only any good for WiFi connections.