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Piet200
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Nov 09, 2022

Nighthawk M1 connect to LAN (ethernet cable)

I am looking for a setup to use the M1 mobile router as a backup of my internet on my lan. Does anyone know if this is possible?   It does look like that I can hook it up to my wifi network and ma...
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JohnPeng
NETGEAR Expert
Nov 14, 2022

Try WiFi OR ETHERNET offloading feature and see whether that is what you need.

 

Thanks

 

Piet200 wrote:

I am looking for a setup to use the M1 mobile router as a backup of my internet on my lan.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

 

It does look like that I can hook it up to my wifi network and make it function as a backup in that way. but not when I connect it to my network using the lan port.

 

I tried the 'IP passthrough' setting, but that doesn't work at all.

 

Any suggestion is welcome.