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Nighthawk® 5G Mobile Hotspot -- Spec Sheet
Perhaps others have seen it already, but here is the official spec sheet for the:
Nighthawk® 5G Mobile Hotspot
Data Sheet | MR5000-1A1NAS
https://www.netgear.com/images/datasheet/mobile...
Wait, hold the phone . . . (pun intended)
No Ethernet?!?! Just USB-C are you serious? Please tell me they just forgot to list it.
And only one?!?! 5GHz radio? So when you're getting "5G" (not 5GE and not 5G+) -- aka LAA -- and you cannot use the USB-C or the 5GHz 802.11ac, what are you supposed to do?
And I should have the privledge of paying $500 for this?
Here's the FCC ID
Goggle this
PY318300428 FCC
Go to the second link which starts "https://apps.fcc.gov/blah/blah"
Most of the info is still confidential. But I see no Ethernet port.
1) No external antenna ports?
2) No low band 5G?
3) 5 band aggegration with only 4 internal antennas?
Most likely the one of the 5 band aggregation bands are either "intra-band" or LAA (and thus using the Wifi antenna)
I'm not surprised there are no external antenna ports. This is becoming more and more un-manageable given LTE MIMO. Let alone mmWave -- for which there is no consumer/prosumer hardware.
I would expect that the Qualcomm X50 chipset should support sub-6GHz 5G. Presumably the same antennas would be used as for LTE? Whether or not it gets enabled is another question.
I strongly expect this to be a short lived "Gen 1" product. I'm curious to see who the OEM is for the Verizon product. Their hotspots are generally more fully baked.