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Settings to connect Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot to Nighthawk R7000P
Hi All - I'm at my end of my own trials here to get this connected well. The issue is we live in the country but we actually have 5G cell signal here, so I just upgraded our plan to get better speeds...
homenet_local wrote:
so I just upgraded our plan to get better speeds and also refreshed our hardware to be capable of the 5G speeds.
What is the hardware that is actually delivering the Internet?
What has replaced the "the ATT Home Base wireless internet"?
Hard to guess how you need to set up the R7000P without knowing that.
homenet_local wrote:
I want the benefits of the R7000P for bandwidth load balancing, NAS connections, so I want all home devices connected to that router but I want the 5G mobile hotspot to serve as the ISP.
How do you plan to connect the NAS to the R7000P?
Sounds like you want to use the unnamed "5G mobile hotspot" as a router that feeds the R7000P as an access point or repeater. (Two routers side by side is a bad idea.) Or maybe you are trying to create two completely separate networks with no connection between them.
Hi! Thank you for your help michaelkenward
The internet is supplied by the Netgear Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotsopt MR5100 service is AT&T (https://www.att.com/device-support/index/Netgear/MR5100/)
The NAS would connect to the R7000P via ethernet cable
Is setting up wth R7000P as an access point the best option?
homenet_local wrote:
Is setting up wth R7000P as an access point the best option?
Connecting a modem/mobile hotspot is a regular issue in this community. The router doesn't really matter. So the best place to ask about it is here:
Mobile Routers, Hotspots & Modems
Start with the manual for the MR5100.
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEAR
Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
I am not familiar with the process involved in marrying a hotspot to a router. But you could check the section Offload Your Mobile Internet Connection in the manual.
Other options cloud be as an access point or in Bridge Mode.But as I say the best place to ask about that is in the other section.
If you don't want to have any connection between the NASs and the outside world, then you can see if it works to set up an internal network based on the R7000P.
michaelkenward Thank you I will go look over there and see what I can find.