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Jan 14, 2023

Connecting a Nighthawk hotspot (4G M1) to a switch

I am planning on connecting a Nighthawk hotspot (4G M1) to a switch to enable additional wired devices to access the MiFi device. Has anyone done this and if so is there any advice or tips that m...

jurajpe1

Aspirant

Mar 19, 2023

Hi. But can I just connect a switch? To the M1 ethernet port? Not a full router.
I would like to use a switch so I can connect a couple of devices to it with wires.
And also, if I then could connect a wifi access point to that switch? Thanks

JohnPeng

NETGEAR Expert

Mar 20, 2023

jurajpe1 wrote:
Hi. But can I just connect a switch? To the M1 ethernet port? Not a full router.
I would like to use a switch so I can connect a couple of devices to it with wires.
And also, if I then could connect a wifi access point to that switch? Thanks

You can give it a try. But depend on how many devices you want to connect to the switch, the data connection may become unstable. We recommend to use a router client to connect to M1 ethernet port. Then you can connect all your clients to the router.

Thanks

jurajpe1
Aspirant
Mar 20, 2023
I will try this. I already tried to connect one computer to the ethernet port direct and it is working fine. I am ok with that. In this case, only one PC to ethernet and a couple of iphones at one time connected to wifi will be stable? Was reading originally that the ethernet port is working for the offloading, but I switched off the tether on the usb port and disabled the standby for the ethernet as it was suggested. I need kind of stable connection on the ethernet, same as the M1 provides for the wifi. Using it for several years and very happy with it.

Though I will to connect a small switch in between. I would still use only one PC connected to it, but wanted to try to connect a unifi NanoHD to it as well to use that for the wifi. Instead of the M1. Did anyone try that? Theoretically this should work as I would setup the NanoHD with its own SSID. And just send the data over the ethernet back to the M1. I will report on this.
I have a switch and nanoHD lying around, but have no router to spare. I need to extend our holiday setup.