Nighthawk questions!

[margnotis]

I have the MR-1100 2A1NAS nighthawk. And although this is a /no contract subreddit. I figured there are a huge number of users in here and wanted to get some advice. Hopefully this is allowed! I am using it because I have no typical internet solutions and thus I found out about it through this subreddit (mainly)

1. This thing has an Ethernet port. I haven’t gotten a clean answer anywhere I’ve read on whether I can hardwire it to my computer to get as clean a signal as possible (rather than via WiFi). I would love to hard wire it to my PC and then have a WiFi mesh extender to piggy back the signal to the rest of the house.

2.Ive been running it off of a USB-c cable to a beefy anker power supply. It gets warm sometimes. I’ve been considering building a little cooking system for it. Just a fan with a way for the air to exhaust away from the unit. Thoughts? Unnecessary?

This device has made modernish internet in my home a reality. It’s Awesome. Thanks all!

[michaelkenward]

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@margnotis wrote:

I have the MR-1100 2A1NAS nighthawk.

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While many questions about routers are generic and could be answered anywhere, some things need specialist knowledge.

You might get more help, and find earlier questions and answers specific to your device, in the appropriate section for your hardware. That's probably here:

Mobile Routers, Hotspots & Modems

Those things are very different from the standard Netgear routers covered in this section.

You might like to search there for messages related to your question.

I will ask the Netgear moderator to move your message.

In the meantime you could visit the support pages:

Support | NETGEAR

Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware. Look at the label on the device for the model number.

Check for various troubleshooting tips.

You may have done this already. I can't tell from your message.

I mention it because Netgear stopped supplying printed manuals and CD versions some years ago and people sometimes miss the downloads.