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pndavkota
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Jan 14, 2022

Nighthawk M5 questions

Hey guys,

I have a couple of questions regarding the M5 which I hope someone can help answer. To give you an idea of what I’m trying to achieve I owner a camper van that I built out and am working on giving it a smart home network which will work wherever I take it, including when parked outside my house. So I would use a SIM card in the M5 when on the road, and when it’s parked outside my house I’d like the M5 to get its internet wirelessly from my netgear ax8 modem router which is in my house.

The idea being that there’s always a network local to the camper van powered by the M5 but its internet source changes. I want to save on data costs when not travelling and the van is parked outside my house. I plan to have a camera and temp sensor in the van, among other things. Ok so questions:

  1. Can I connect the M5 to my AX8 to get internet from my home network while using the M5 as a network in my van that I can connect to via the internet.

  2. Can I use the M5 solely as a router with no internet which I can connect to from my home (wirelessly via local network)?

Thanks in advance for the help!

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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru
    Jan 14, 2022

    Netgear has set up a community forum specifically for the Mobile Router products. Most of the people who watch that forum are more likely to have experience with mobile routers and know how to work it better than those of us who follow this router forum. Might be more likely to find someone who has a solution if the question is posted there:
    https://community.netgear.com/t5/Mobile-Routers-Hotspots-Modems/bd-p/aircard


    Please use this link to the main forum product list to review and choose where to make your posts. 
    https://community.netgear.com/t5/NETGEAR-Forum/ct-p/en-netgear


    Thank you

  • JohnPeng's avatar
    JohnPeng
    NETGEAR Expert
    Jan 16, 2022
    pndavkota wrote:

    Hey guys,

    I have a couple of questions regarding the M5 which I hope someone can help answer. To give you an idea of what I’m trying to achieve I owner a camper van that I built out and am working on giving it a smart home network which will work wherever I take it, including when parked outside my house. So I would use a SIM card in the M5 when on the road, and when it’s parked outside my house I’d like the M5 to get its internet wirelessly from my netgear ax8 modem router which is in my house.

    The idea being that there’s always a network local to the camper van powered by the M5 but its internet source changes. I want to save on data costs when not travelling and the van is parked outside my house. I plan to have a camera and temp sensor in the van, among other things. Ok so questions:

    1. Can I connect the M5 to my AX8 to get internet from my home network while using the M5 as a network in my van that I can connect to via the internet.

    2. Can I use the M5 solely as a router with no internet which I can connect to from my home (wirelessly via local network)?

    Thanks in advance for the help!

    Your ideas are achievable with M5

     

    1. When you at home, you enabled WiFi offloading to your home router AX8

    2. Wen you are away from home, offloading will be stopped and M5 will connect to 5G network automatically.

     

     When your home network is available again, the device will automatically offload the connection to your home router.

     

    I don't quite understand what you try to achieve for your 2nd question above.

     

    Thanks