Is it possible to turn off WiFi on the T-Mobile Home Gateway, I would like to hook my wifi router and avoid having both WiFi active

Logging into the gateway and disabling "Enable SSID" and "Enable Broadcast" does not turn off the WiFi radios on the gateway, it simply hides the SSID. If you key in the SSID and password on a device, it can still connect to the T-Mobile gateway's WiFi. If it's not possible to turn off the WiFi radios on the gateway, that's a bit of an oversight on T-Mobile's part, I hope that's fixed in future firmware. On the plus side, the gateway has a pretty good WiFi system, if you want to use it.

I figured out what was going on. By default, the gateway will broadcast on SSID1, SSID5, and SSID9, populating those with the SSID and password you specified during setup. I had just disabled SSID1 and SSID5, didn't notice I had to go into the pull-down menu to also turn off SSID9. So this makes turning off the gateway WiFi is a little unintuitive, but it's possible, my bad.

To T-Mobile:The Nokia 5G Home Internet Gateway need some serious improvements.It should:Allow admins to enable HTTPs access to the Gateway, Allow admins to 100% turn off the WiFi radios, Allow admins to access the Gateway's internal firewall, and be able to create/modify rules, check logs, etc. Allow admins to set the Public IP address to be passed through to a router or firewall connected to at least one of the 2 Gigabit ports, so that internal devices could be accessed from the Internet. Allow admins to 100% disable the gateway's internal firewall if so desired.I unfortunately started the search for a more serious, and better thought of product, to satisfy my requirements. Gracias.

tim-mobile wrote: To T-Mobile: The Nokia 5G Home Internet Gateway need some serious improvements. It should: Allow admins to enable HTTPs access to the Gateway, Allow admins to 100% turn off the WiFi radios, Allow admins to access the Gateway's internal firewall, and be able to create/modify rules, check logs, etc. Allow admins to set the Public IP address to be passed through to a router or firewall connected to at least one of the 2 Gigabit ports, so that internal devices could be accessed from the Internet. Allow admins to 100% disable the gateway's internal firewall if so desired. I unfortunately started the search for a more serious, and better thought of product, to satisfy my requirements. Thank you. I would like to also add an ability to turn this gateway to have the bridge mode please.

OMG - OK so that's pretty pathetic.. I just received my grey GW today and set it up. After a few failed connection attempts through the app, turns out that the app needed an update. I am very close to the T-Mob tower -like ½ mile. My connection is excellent with 5 full bars and great 5G speed on my phone. So far, I am hitting 340Mbits down and 42Mbits up w ~20ms (or less) ping times. Ethernet connection to GW shows gbit up/down but no noticeable difference in internet speeds or ping. (in a handful of first pass tests). WiFi coverage from this box doesn't seem very good. From my office on the same floor and 100ft away, it drops significantly. I have an Asus ROG GT-AXE11000 router so it makes absolutely no sense to use the T-Mo GW as my wi-fi router. So I ask WTH?!?!Why not provide an advanced tab on the T-Mo router to allow some advanced settings -or even- frankly a "hidden" unpublished page that would allow an advanced user -or even a basic user with a mesh wi-fi system to go in and configure additional options such as disabling wifi altogether?? Hmm… Quite a fail in my opinion - I am sure this was done primarily to reduce support calls -but to be honest -this will have the opposite effect as to increasing calls by frustrated users who are coming off other providers -especially those with owned cable modems who have their own wifi routers.If it was a hidden page -this would address the concern about a novice messing up settings while at the same time allowing a more advanced user to configure the things they need (like disabling wifi, setting static IP, changing DHCP scopes, etc..) Sheesh.. Come-on T-mobile -At minimum -let us disable wifi! Please… So, I will spend the next few days playing around with things but hoping to minimize wifi interference between the Tmo GW and my personal router. If anyone has a simple known "secret menu", "hack" or other means to disable wi-fi please share it.

Turn off WiFi on T-Mobile Home Gateway

007BondMI6
Bandwidth Buddy
Hace 4 años
Make sure you are turning off the right one.
007BondMI6
Bandwidth Buddy
Hace 4 años
I guess banking someone had the wrong setting set off and it’s working now???
play347
Roaming Rookie
Hace 4 años
Well, it looks like some folks are able to disable WiFI and some other not. Perhaps this might be that some units are in different Firmware that others. I am the one that I am NOT able to turn WiFi OFF! and my Software Version in my T-Mobile can is: 1.2101.00.1609. If you can turn it OFF please let us know what is your Software Version.
dilbert
Transmission Trainee
Hace 4 años
play347 wrote:

Well, it looks like some folks are able to disable WiFI and ome other not. Perhaps this might be that some units are in different Firmware that others. I am the one that I am NOT able to turn WiFi OFF! and my Software Version in my T-Mobile can is: 1.2101.00.1609. If you can turn it OFF please let us know what is your Software Version.

I’m also on version 1.2101.00.1609 and can turn off WiFi.
What have you done to turn off WiFi and what are you seeing that indicates you cannot turn it off?
viper111
Roaming Rookie
Hace 4 años
I guess I forgot some!
viper111
Roaming Rookie
Hace 4 años
So you have to do both!
Disable the SSID So you could disable WLAN!
If you don’t you will have it still enable.
viper111
Roaming Rookie
Hace 4 años
Let me do it like an how to!
Maybe better?😉

Paso 1:
SSID 1-4 is 2.4 GHZ WIFI
you pick each one and disable the broadcast
now you should see the 2.4 GHz WIFI as disabled

Paso 2:
5→ is the 5 GHz WIFI
you pick each one and disable the broadcast
now you should see the 5 GHz WIFI as disabled

if it still showing enable, then you missed some!
megadrive
Network Novice
Hace 4 años
megadrive
Network Novice
Hace 4 años
Hey guys,

Under the Status Tab under wifi, it still shows antennas as emitting radiation, even though under the Stats Tab it shows both as disabled. So antenna is still exposing you to radiation and interfering. BTW you shouldn't place routers or any 4G/5G close to your head in my opinion. Lower power output should help too.
sjoefl01
Network Novice
Hace 4 años
I am having trouble with the wired connection not knowing my real location. That means without going through the wifi I get incorrect time, weather and any localized information. I think Tmobile knows this is the case. Be careful making a wired commitment to this box. If some body knows how to fix this please post it. My wired mesh has no idea where it is and changes location every time the T Mobile dice is powered off and back on.