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dfilip
Nov 15, 2022Guide
Nighthawk M6 Pro Mobile Hotspot (AT&T MR6500) & Incoming Connections
I am seriously considering purchasing the Nighthawk M6 Pro 5G Mobile Hotspot (AT&T) and putting it in front of a server in my basement, to accept incoming web (ports 80 and 443) connections. My serv...
dfilip
Nov 16, 2022Guide
Although I couldn't find anything about port forwarding -- a pretty standard feature on most NETGEAR routers -- regarding the Nighthawk M6 Pro 5G hotspot, I did manage to find reference to setting up a DMZ.
So is that potentially my solution for this? A DMZ infers incoming connections, and I have a spare BR500 router, so potentially could I do something like this (as I may have said previously, I want to use the Ethernet port of the MR6500 and turn off WiFi entirely):
[Public Internet] ==> [MR6500] ==Ethernet==>[BR500]==Ethernet==>[Computer]
I'm not concerned about using the BR500 for my firewall -- I have another one on my network and I am very familiar with that router -- so based on the DMZ feature, it sounds like this should work? Any problems with this approach?
Since the MR6500 is something like $800, I want to make sure that this works before I make the purchase.
Thanks,
Dave.
- schnellmedicNov 17, 2022Aspirant
Its carrier grade nat so dont expect a public address - on AT&T residential service at least. Maybe if you get a cradlepoint business sim with static addressing and swap the sims...