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Proper Setup For Netgear MR1100 and Deco Mesh
I currently have a Netgear Nighthawk MR1100 LTE hotspot router running the internet for my home. To spread the internet through the home I have 2 Deco M4Rs running as routers. I'm trying to figure ...
Please enable IP passthrough on MR1100 and connect the ethernet port to your Deco base. This will resolve the double NATing issue.
You can also try just connecting the Deco base to M1 and see whether you experience the same lagging or not. This will help to rule out the issue between 2 Decos.
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John
I have attempted to select the IP passthrough multiple times and once selected the Deco never receives any internet signal. That is why I currently have it in the current configuration. I will try that setting again though.
You can connect a PC to the MR1100 ethernet port and see whether PC works with IP passthrough setting. There might by compatible issue between M1 and Deco. But this type of setup is quite common use case for mobile hotspots.
Thanks
John
I've used deco's before and they're pretty good at detecting a double nat.
If you set them up prior with the MR1100 and the MR1100 was in router mode, you might try resetting up the deco after switching the MR1100.
I guess the proper question is, which device should I let handle all the routing? Should I just use the Decos as an access point and use the MR1100 handle everything or should I use the Decos as the routers? I can make either setup work I just don't know what would be the best method for the devices that I have. Throughout the house there is approx 8-10 devices constantly connected with a max of about 15.
It is ideal to use Decos as the routers for your LAN network.
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