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Night hawk M5 & patch panel
Hi, Is there a fundamental reason why I cannot connect à Nighthawk MR2500 to a patch panel through an RJ45 on the tethering plug? It does not work. Is it only because my patch panel is old (D-link ...
If that resolved it, you might mark it solved so others aren't still trying to fix it.
glad it works again!
Do you mean the MR5200?
You should be able to connect a switch to it.
The one you listed is a pretty simple 10/100mbps unmanaged switch.
Do devices work if directly plugged into it?
Sorry, yes MR5200. Devices do work when tethering directly on the mobile router.
have you tried a different switch?
How many devices are connected?
I don’t have another switch to try… There are 5 devices.
I circumvented the problem by using WiFi on all the devices (no longer need the switch). However our printer doesn’t have WiFi so I connected it to the tethering plug of the mobile router. It didn’t work because the printer had a fixed IP address. The mobile router apparently cannot handle that (strange behavior because ping was ok but not printing). So I changed the printer setting to automatic IP address and use its DOS name when configuring the printer on the PCs.
But when I tried before with the switch, the printer was connected to the switch with a fixed IP address. I did not think the problem could come from that at the time. Maybe it was blocking the whole thing? Doubt it though.
I will try again the mobile router + switch setting without the printer and also with the new printer setting.
Thanks for your help.