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donsp9
Jun 28, 2016Aspirant
My wife and I are living in an RV. We have an access point allowing us to share files and a printer
My wife and I are living in an RV. We have an access point allowing us to share files and a printer among our 4 computers. We bought a WNCE3001 several months ago and connected it to the WAN RJ45 ja...
VE6CGX
Jul 01, 2016Master
Doesn't the unit have a LED indicator showing status? Maybe your unit is not receiving strong enough signal from hotspot TX?
Could deacrease the distance between hotspot and your unit for testing? Status LED color and blinking rate will tell what's wrong.
donsp9
Jul 28, 2016Aspirant
I must say that at this point I am very dissatisfied with the WNCE3001 and NETGEAR. Be aware that the device is only about 10 months old and was only 8 months old (2 months out of warranty) when it started faling. I posted to this web site in hopes of getting support for the problem, which is at the RJ45 end of the device, not at the Wi-Fi connection end. I also sent separate emails to the sales and service departments at NETGEAR a number of weeks ago. I have received no response at all from the company and no ultimately useful help from this web site. I looked long and hard on the Internet for a competitor that could actually solve my problem and provide actually useful support. I finally found it in the Pepwave Surf On-The-Go (www.peplink.com/products/surf-on-the-go). One of its possible uses is to provide a bridge between a wired Ethernet connection and a Wi-Fi source. So if you have a Wi-Fi router with an RJ-45 WAN jack, you can run an Ethernet 10/100 base T cable from there to the Pepwave device and configure the latter to connect to the desired SSID. It all appears to be reliable and user friendly. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend the NETGEAR WNCE3001 as a Wired-Ethernet-to-Wi-Fi bridge.