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Will 5G SA support on MR6150 be reassessed in the future?
I have two MR6150 hotspots connected to the T-Mobile network, and sometimes they will try to carrier aggregate with LTE bands that appear to be congested in my area. I have seen the two hotspots sit...
Hi kirk137,
Netgear removed 5G SA support on the MR6150 because AT&T and Verizon don’t use it (so the device couldn’t be certified) and their lab tests showed NSA usually performed better since it leverages LTE. They’ve said unless carriers widely adopt SA or performance clearly improves, it’s unlikely to return in public firmware. That said, if you need SA for testing on a private or specific network, Netgear has offered to provide special builds if you contact them directly.
For now, your best options are staying on the older v10 firmware (since it keeps SA working), or requesting Netgear to add band-blacklisting/band-locking in future releases. Otherwise, random differences between B2 and B66 connections are just how the RAN steers devices under current firmware.
MaryMacdonald, since I am on the T-Mobile network, which is a native 5G standalone network, why should I bow down to what AT&T and Verizon prefer? I am pretty sure T-Mobile would prefer that their customers be on 5G SA.
Would Netgear offer the 5G SA option for T-Mobile? What is the proper avenue to contact them?