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Ex6120 WiFi Extender Connected to Cell Phone Mobile Hotspot - No Internet
We have a vacation home in the mountains where there is no internet provider. So we use a cell phone mobile hotspot for internet. We currently have a TPLink tl-wr802n travel router attached to the mo...
I found my problem. The TPLink TL-WR802N travel router has a DHCP Server, so devices attached to it get IP addresses in a new subnet. The TL-WR802N then looks like one device to the cell phone mobile hotspot. The Netgear EX6120 does not have a DHCP Server, and devices attached to it get IP addresses from the cell phone mobile hotspot. My cell phone plan allows unlimited hotspot data but only with one attached device at a time. So my solution is to stay with the TPLink travel router for now.