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Turn off WiFi on T-Mobile Home Gateway
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
I didn't read all the way through this thread. I too have installed another router off of the Arcadyan gateway - so it's essentially operating as a modem. Which is fine. However, what I haven't seen is if there's a reason to turn off the Wi-Fi from the Arcadyan. Does it improve performance (either general throughput or reducing Wi-Fi conflicts, or other)?
I got my T-Mobile Home Gateway Arcadyan KVD21 and was shocked to learn that there is no admin login possible via the web interface. Luckily I found https://github.com/christopherjnelson/Arcadyan-5G-Web-Admin which you can just run locally and which uses the API (basically like the phone app) to control this gateway but also allows disabling both WiFi channels.
bitti wrote:
I got my T-Mobile Home Gateway Arcadyan KVD21 and was shocked to learn that there is no admin login possible via the web interface. Luckily I found https://github.com/christopherjnelson/Arcadyan-5G-Web-Admin which you can just run locally and which uses the API (basically like the phone app) to control this gateway but also allows disabling both WiFi channels.
Are you able to turn off both channels? I can disable only one. If I try to do a second, it never 'takes'. I can do the 2.4g but then the 5.0g won't disable, and vice versa. I can never have them both disabled at the same time.
MisterK wrote:
I connected my Apple AirPort Extreme to the T-Mobile gateway with a long ethernet (in the wall) cable, and that works perfectly. I did NOT turn off the WiFi on the gateway. I connected the AirPort to the gateway with an ethernet cable. Then I reset the AirPort. When it came back up it automatically did the setup to extend. Make sure you name the AirPort network the same name and use the same password as the gateway. No loss of speed, and now I have strong connections throughout my long house. When I'm near the gateway, that is the connection. When I'm near the AirPort, then that is the connection.
Are you still having success with the AirPort and the T-Mobile gateway? I am debating if I should buy my own router/WiFi so I can use a VPN to change my city location so I can watch my local MLB team.
bitti wrote:
I got my T-Mobile Home Gateway Arcadyan KVD21 and was shocked to learn that there is no admin login possible via the web interface. Luckily I found https://github.com/christopherjnelson/Arcadyan-5G-Web-Admin which you can just run locally and which uses the API (basically like the phone app) to control this gateway but also allows disabling both WiFi channels.
Where can I find some instruction on how to take this git and run it locally?
You all may have missed the boat it seems with the T-Mobile gateway. You are trying to turn the radios off and not DHCP. Even if you could turn the radios off' it would still broadcast DHCP because it has two ethernet ports too. T-Mobile does not give us this functionality as in a Linksys or Cisco router. If you plug the gateway into the WAN port of your existing router which is functioning as an access point the gateway and internet will still work however they both are broadcasting DHCP and most likely different subnets. This could cause a problem. For instance most routers broadcast 192.168.1 and the T-Mobile gateway broadcasts 192.168.12. I was testing the gateway before disabling my current modem with my cell phone and the cell phone had internet from the gateway just fine. When I connected the gateway to the WAN port on my router my cell phone dropped connection to the gateway and would no longer connect. If I did not care about using the T-Mobile app I would not care at all. The T-Mobile app will only connect to the gateway if the device the app is running on is on the same subnet as the gateway. When a device connects to Wifi it first obtains an IP then runs the authentication. In a perfect world this always works but in the instance of the gateway and router both broadcasting different subnets my cell phone picks up the router subnet and fails to connect to the gateway wireless cause it is on a different subnet. When I unplug the gateway from the WAN port on the router my cell phone connects back to the gateway no problem. I need the functionality of my router so disabling access point mode on my router I will not do. When I figure out how to do this the right way I will update this post.
