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Nighthawk RAX35 conncting to hotspot
Hello, I got a great deal on the Nighthawk RAX35. I bought it and now I am trying to figure out if I can use my Sprint mobile hotspot device to supply internet thru the RAX35 so my corded pc's can u...
Found my own solution after buying a few other wireless routers/repeater. The one I found that is working well is a AMPEDWIRELESS High Power AC2200 WI-FI Range Extender (RE2200T), easy setup, found my hotspot device as soon as it was turned on. set my passwords for each frequency 2.4ghz, 5ghz and unit did its reset and now my wired pc's are connected to my hotspot.
Moline wrote:
My sprint hotspot device is basically one of those
OK. The place to ask about that is here:
Mobile Routers, Hotspots & Modems
You can also get hold of the manual here:
Feed in the model number and find all the documentation for your hardware.
The MR1100 is a router so, for a quiet life, you don't want to add another router behind it. You could try using the RAX35 as a wireless access point plugged into the MR1100.
Moline wrote:
So when I found the sale add for a new top of line Nighthawk AX4 4-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router. I guessed it would have more capabilities than a wireless router released in 2013.
First, the RAX35 is not "top of line", just one or a number of RAX devices.If anything I'd put it at the bottom of the RAX range. For example, the RAX120 costs around three times as much as the RAX35 while the RAX80 is about twice the price.
It almost certainly has more capabilities than a wireless router released in 2013, just a set of features that does not include the one you couldn't find in the data sheet. There are RAX devices that support wireless bridging (see above). You just chose one that doesn't.
so it appears your saying to support my Sprint hotspot device (ZTE MV920VS) by providing ethernet connections to my hardwired pc's and printers. Which is now currently done by a $20 NETIS WF2419 300mbs wireless N-router. This $200 Nighthawk RAX35 non top of the line WIFI-6 router wont do the job but instead I must buy some other more expensive RAX model that may or may not do wireless bridging. Again we are back to the fact that I search for wireless bridging or wireless repeater ( a term you used in your first response to me) and not get a straight answer, business stuff comes up but I do not own a large home or feel i should spend $200+ dollars to update a $20 router. Looks like a WAC564 may do the job but again nothing seems to be a straight foreward answer.
Moline wrote:
so it appears your saying to support my Sprint hotspot device (ZTE MV920VS) by providing ethernet connections to my hardwired pc's and printers. Which is now currently done by a $20 NETIS WF2419 300mbs wireless N-router. This $200 Nighthawk RAX35 non top of the line WIFI-6 router wont do the job but instead I must buy some other more expensive RAX model that may or may not do wireless bridging.
There is a lot going on there. Not helped by not having sentences to guide us.
You have dribbled in bits of information, this is the first mention of the ZTE MV920VS, so we are all shooting in the dark here.
If you want to provide wired Ethernet connections to your hardwired PCs and printers, forget about using the RAX35 for things it is not designed to do. Work out how to make it do things that it can do. Look into turning the RAX35 into a wireless access point. This is an easy switch.
Moline wrote:
Again we are back to the fact that I search for wireless bridging or wireless repeater ( a term you used in your first response to me) and not get a straight answer
Who knows where you are searching? There are various ways of labelling these things. In effect "wireless bridging" and "wireless repeater" often mean the same thing. It is also sometime labelled WDS (wireless distribution service).
Unfortunately, bridging is another term that gets used in different ways. But let's not go into that.
I have no idea what you mean by a straight answer. Ask confusing questions based on poor and incomplete information from you and you can expect to get muddled answers.
The bottom line is that your RAX35 was a bad choice if you want a wireless repeater/bridge/WDS. Nothing anyone can say will mend it for you.
Found my own solution after buying a few other wireless routers/repeater. The one I found that is working well is a AMPEDWIRELESS High Power AC2200 WI-FI Range Extender (RE2200T), easy setup, found my hotspot device as soon as it was turned on. set my passwords for each frequency 2.4ghz, 5ghz and unit did its reset and now my wired pc's are connected to my hotspot.