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MR6150 keeps searching for the network
I just received my MR6150. It worked great in the first few days, and I plugged it in on the desk to charge the battery last night. In the morning, it kept searching for the network, so I power cycled it, and about an hour later, it was still searching. Occasionally, it is connected and then starts searching again. The SIM card has no issue on my mobile. Did anyone know what I could do to keep it connected? Thanks, Marian.NETGEAR Nighthawk MR6150 – M6 Displayanzeige um 180 Grad drehen
Hallo, hat jemand eine Idee, ob es eine Möglichkeit gibt, die Anzeige des Displays um 180 Grad zu drehen. Aus Platzgründen im Wohnmobil musste ich den Router mit den Anschlüssen (Antenne und USB Stecker) nach oben montieren. Das Display ist nun nur über Kopf lesbar. Danke für einen Hinweis.Need to find fix - MR6150 just searching - no connection
This MR6150 is notoriously hard to connect. I have been in the middle of several different large cities, with 5G coverage all over according to the coverage map - unit just searching with no connection. Occasionally it will connect and later lose the connection, and then go searching for hours again as I travel through other 5G coverage areas. At home now, and yesterday turned on the unit and it is searching away. Left it overnight to charge battery, and in the morning it was connected to 5G. Turned it off, then back on, and placed it on the desk. An hour and 1/2 later it was still searching. Then took the sim card (T-Mobile) and placed it in 3 other devices at the same spot on the desk: - MR6500, instantly connected to 5G at 4 bars, 403 Mbps tested. - Inseego M3000, instantly connected to 5G at 3 bars, 245 Mbps. - GL.iNet Puli AX, instantly connected to 5G at at 4 bars 188 Mbps tested. This MR6150 has firmware 12.01.54, which is the supposedly the latest. What can I do to get this unit working correctly? Thanks, MarkCan the screen on M6 be rotated?
Is the LED screen on the M6 rotatable? The reason I'm asking is that I saw there is an Ethernet port at the bottom of M6. I plan to plug my laptop via the cable. If I want to put this device vertically, the Touchscreen would be upside down. I prefer to plug the cable from the top:-D. Heard somewhere that the vertical position is good for heat dissipation.Will 5G SA support on MR6150 be reassessed in the future?
I have two MR6150 hotspots connected to the T-Mobile network, and sometimes they will try to carrier aggregate with LTE bands that appear to be congested in my area. I have seen the two hotspots sitting right next to each other where one decides to connect to LTE B2 and achieves speeds of around 400Mbps, and the other connects to LTE B66 and can barely break 100Mbps. This is from the same location with the same T-Mobile SIM and same plan. I would love to know what is causing the different behaviors when the two identical hotspots are right next to each other. Sometimes I can get the one that gravitates toward B66 to connect to B2 after a reboot, or driving around with it, but it doesn't reliably stay there. When it is on B2, it performs great, when it is on B66 the performance is horrible. I did some research and I found out that the 5G Standalone mode used to be offered but was removed, as discussed in this thread: MR6150 - Cannot connect to 5G only bands | NETGEAR Communities The reasoning for its removal from the firmware seems ridiculous. It reads to me like "oh because we felt like it and you shouldn't use it anyway, Netgear knows better than you and based on a few lab tests we see no real world use case for this setting". Since that response was now around 2 years ago, and in that time I think attitudes toward 5G Standalone are changing, will 5G Standalone ever be added back in to the firmware? As a test I downgraded my device to a version 10 firmware, and it is able to connect to 5G Standalone, and the performance is far improved from when it was randomly connecting to B66. I went from unreliable and unpredictable speeds to predictable and good speeds. For now, I think I will continue to run the old firmware so I can have the 5G Standalone feature that was taken away for no reason. Alternatively, I would love a way to blacklist bands that I don't want the device to connect to. If there were checkboxes for each band and I could simply disable N71, so the device would stay on B2, the performance would be better for me. As time passes and carrier attitudes shift toward preferring 5G Standalone, is there ever going to come a time when this feature will be reconsidered and put back into the new firmware? Thanks, KirkM5 Nighthawk MR5200 Problem Acces Intern
Hello, I am reaching out for assistance with my Netgear Nighthawk M5 router. I have a 5G Surf Unlimited subscription with Salt (Switzerland), and the SIM card works perfectly when used in my mobile phone (iphone), including when I use my phone as a hotspot. However, when I insert the same SIM card into the Nighthawk M5 (MR5200), the device shows a strong 5G signal with full bars, but i can't acces web pages / internet. Pages are not loading (one time i succeed by manually changing DNS to 1.1.1.1 and others stuff, but it was super slow, now i reset and nothing work...). I would like to know if there are specific settings I need to adjust, such as DNS configurations or other network settings ?. I had the confirmation from Salt that they don't block / restrict acces to internt, so the problem comes from the M5 setting. I think the problem is coming from the APN settings. I wrote "internet" as suggested. Again it's connected but it seems to have no communication with the "internet". I spent days on it... you are my last hope. Thanks in advance PepitoGuest Network & Dual Band Issues on Nighthawk M6 (MR6150-100EUS)
Hi everyone, I’m using a Netgear Nighthawk M6 (MR6150-100EUS) and recently ran into two problems that weren’t there before — everything used to work fine until a short while ago: Guest Wi-Fi network not showing up Guest network is enabled in the admin panel and set to broadcast. SSID is simple, no special characters. Broadcast is active but the SSID is invisible on all devices (iOS, Android, Windows). Tried reboots, changing SSID/password, and other settings — no luck. Dual band issues I have 2.4 GHz + 5 GHz enabled, but only 2.4 GHz works. No device will connect to 5 GHz. What I’ve tried so far: Full factory reset Updated firmware Different SSIDs and passwords The problems still remain. I’m trying to figure out whether this is: A firmware bug A new compatibility issue Or a hardware fault Has anyone here run into something similar with the MR6150-100EUS? Any tips or solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, AfrazM6 MR6150 Not Connecting to 5G NR (n78) in Brazil – Only LTE
GoodMorning! Hello, I’m using a Netgear Nighthawk M6 (MR6150) in Brazil with a Vivo SIM card. This SIM is on the same mobile plan as my phone, and when inserted into my iPhone, it connects to 5G NR (n78) and gets speeds over 1200 Mbps. However, when used in the M6, the device only connects to LTE (B1), even though the 5G NR band n78 is available and supported by both the carrier and the M6. The device shows “5GSUB6” in the status, but under Radio Band, it still shows LTE only. Speed tops out at ~40 Mbps. I have already: - Updated to the latest firmware - Set the correct APN (zap.vivo.com.br) - Tested different network modes (5G Only, 5G/4G Auto, etc.) - Verified that the M6 MR6150 supports n78 - Compared the exact same SIM at the same location in a phone (which gets 5G NR just fine) Is there a way to force or lock the M6 to use NR band n78, or to troubleshoot why it won’t connect to 5G NR even when available? Any help or command-line tools to check this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Mark