Nighthawk M1 Hotspot & Nighthawk X6 R8000

Here's part 1b...

I have an M1 (in the UK) and have set it up in the first of the above scenarios. I could have connected it directly to a modem/router that I had set up as an access point (or a cheaper, dedicated access point) but my house has thick walls and I wanted to make 5GHz WiFi accessible throughout the house, so I connected the M1 to a low-cost, unmanaged Gigabit Ethernet switch via Ethernet and then wired 2 access points into the switch via a LAN port, not the WAN port. In some routers, when they are set up as an access point, the WAN port becomes another LAN port. If you decide to set the M1 as a modem only, you would connect it to the router's WAN port.