Oh, how painful, just got off the phone with netgear technical support. They said I need a modem. Why cannot the R7000 be configured to accept internet from a mobile hotspot from my Note 9 phone?
It sounded like there were other people doing this or something similar from these forums.
This video shows a person doing it with a TP Link router...is that somehow different or superior to the netgear R7000? Watch "How to Share & Connect 3G / 4G Mobile Hotspot To WiFi Router Tutorial" on YouTube https://youtu.be/4ykqFgJi-ZE
I have two of the R7000 routers, so can one of them tie into the mobile hot spot on the note 9 phone and the other router be the network router to connect other computers, printers, etc?
> I want to make a network and feed it internet from the 4G mobile phone > hotspot. Various computers and printers will be on the network.
That's a little vague. Presumably, your wireless devices could connect directly to the hotspot, and a wireless bridge could let you connect otherwise-wired-only devices to the hotspot. I see no real need to "make a network" using another router. But I'm always open to a good counter-argument.
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Read. Look for "Set Up the Router in Bridge Mode".
> Can it be done with 2 of the R7000 routers? I read about repeaters and > bridge mode...but am lost on what way to go.
What did you read where?
The repeater mode on these routers is approximately useless. Look for "Set Up the Router as a WiFi Repeater" in the User Manual, and read the restrictions.
I haven't tried it, so I know nothing, and I'm not convinced of the wisdom of using a router to "make a network" and hiding it behind another router (the hotspot), but you could try configuring one R7000 as a wireless bridge (to connect wirelessly to the hotspot), and one as a router for your new "a network" (with its WAN/Internet port connected to a LAN port on the R7000-as-bridge).
