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Nighthawk M1 - Data offloading won't work
Nighthawk M1 LTE Mobile Router, latest firmware (of March 2018), latest Netgeat Mobile App installed.
I'm trying to get the data offloading feature to work, with little success. Tested it with two separate locations/WiFi networks and nope.
The UI of both app and web browser setup is really bad, and the App doesn't let me to change the offloading at all, no effects, doesn't change anything. The browser setup works better and it at least does something, though it finally ends with this error:
"Networking error
Data offloading disabled due to IP address conclit. To to m1login* to configure unique subnet."
I have zero clue what I'm supposed to do and nothing in manual about this error message.
The router settings seem to be fine at the default settings:
Gateway IP 192.168.1. IP subnet mask 255.255.255.0 DNS mode auto DHCP checked starting IP 192.168.1.20 ending IP 192.168.1.99.
So, what to do next? With mobile data, SIM installed, the router seems to work fine, but data offloading just doesn't.
17 Replies
Is it possible that the router you are connecting to, via WiFi or Ethernet data offloading, has the same IP address as your M1 (192.168.1.1 by default)? If so, you could try changing the Gateway IP address of the M1. I'm not sure what happens when you enable data offloading - I guess the M1 could pick up an address via DHCP from the other router, or perhaps it retains its own IP address.
This happens with two separate WiFi routers I'm trying to offload to, but could be. What would be workable alternate gateway IP?
Tiny addition: with wired connection the data offloading works perfectly. I plugged the network cable in and everything worked great right away. WiFi offloading on the other hand....