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Simple Connection Question
I have a new ReadyNAS RN10200 and have a simple connection question. My computers connect to the internet through a mobile hotspot on my cell phone, so I have no physical router to which to connect the ReadyNAS. What's the best way to connect? Seems that when I use an ethernet cable it disrupts the wireless connection to my hotspot.
Thanks!
Bruce
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The readynas must connect via Ethernet to something.
Does the mobile hotspot (gateway) have an IP address as on a LAN? and are the computers connecting to it via a wireless LAN that the mobile hotspot creates?
If this is the case I think you will need to connect the nas to an access point of some sort then incorporate the AP into the LAN.
You could, as I think you have tried, connect direct to a PC, This will limit the functionality of the nas though as it will not be a LAN device and won't have an Internet connection.
You can get a WiFi extender (or use a WiFi router in bridge mode). That will let you connect the NAS via ethernet.
Thanks! And if I connect to a bridge via ethernet, will that disable the computer's wifi connection to the mobile hotspot? I have a bridge and seems that I tried that but then had a problem with the wifi.
Bruce
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