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buddazero
Jun 16, 2022Aspirant
Nighthawk M5 Mobile Router [Connect it to another Router]
A few hours ago, I plugged my Hotspot M5 Mobile Router to my TP Link Router via Ethernet cable into the WAN plug...and it worked! Right off the bad everything was working...and then...I didn't ha...
buddazero
Jun 16, 2022Aspirant
Alright, after walking away and coming back, I realized that this router is not using my Mint Mobile Unlimited Data Plan, but my HotSpot Data, which was capped at 5GB and I had 4.98GB left. That's why it still read it had internet, but in truth it didn't have anymore Data, once I renewed it, everything was working.
This is my first hotspot router, is there a way for this thing to use the data plan, instead of the hotspot data?
- plemansJun 17, 2022Guru - Experienced User
buddazero wrote:
This is my first hotspot router, is there a way for this thing to use the data plan, instead of the hotspot data?
Thats on the ISP on how they interpret the connection. In a phone, it'd be a data plan (unless you turned on the phone's hotspot). Connected to a hotspot, they consider it hotspot. Its not something the end user controls