Nighthawk M1 Hotspot & Nighthawk X6 R8000

Second part of my reply...

While this explanation may sound complicated if you haven't tried doing it before, you can't damage anything - just remember what you change and you can always put the settings back as they were or even do a factory reset. In some routers it's possible to save the configuration to a file which can then be reloaded at a later stage. And if you get stuck, there are plenty of helpful people on this and other similar forums. Here's a Netgear guide on setting up a modem/router as an access point - I haven't tried this out because I don't have a Netgear router with this interface but one thing I notice is that in point 6, it would be better to set manually a fixed IP address for the AP so that you always know how to access it via other devices on the LAN.

A couple of other points - you will probably want to run the M1 without its battery, using only a mains charger. To do this reliably, you may need to buy a more powerful charger if your M1 is supplied with only a 2A charger. See this post for more info. And this post shows you what I purchased - there are no doubt many other, well-designed chargers available so please do your own research on this.

The other point is that the Ethernet port on the M1 was initially programmed to go to sleep after a period of inactivity, which was logical for a hotspot in order to conserve battery charge, but when using it in the unforeseen application of a 24/7 household router, this sleeping was problematic - the power button had to be tapped once to wake it, which is a problem especially when it's in a remote location. However, recent firmware releases in different countries now appear to have changed this behaviour as described in this link. Mine works in this way since an update in early Jan this year.

So my advice - don't be deterred by technology - dive in and explore :smileywink: