Turn off Wifi?

Pentiumii wrote:

I know this is old but hoping someone is still around.

I downloaded hint on my iPhone and found the place to disable wifi.  There was a giant warning about needing a wired connection to enable wifi if I want it back.

Can someone tell me what a wired connection would look like?  My MacBook Air doesn't have a wired internet connection.  I have a windows laptop that does have this connection but not sure how I would be able to log into the g4ar from there and use hint to enable wifi.

Is there a exe file that loads hint onto the windows laptop, and do I just run an ethernet cable from the laptop to the wan slot on the g4ar?  

Many thanks.  I am using a flint 2 router and want to turn off all other wifi signals, I believe they are causing interference.

If you have the WAN port of the router now connected to the gateway via an Ethernet cable (cat 6e for instance) you have a wired connection. You may need to make a route to the gateway in your router. Once that is done, you should be able to connect to the gateway with your iPhone using a wifi address on the router's subnet This works for me anyway, YMMV.

You could also connect your Win laptop (or get a USB-C → Ethernet dongle for the MacBook) to the LAN port on the router and log in that way.  It's a bit simpler, and you don't have to fiddle around with routing the subnet/VLAN through your other router (not that hard if you're familiar with network topology, but perhaps daunting if not).

Thank you, I actually have a dongle somewhere, I will see if I can find it and go that route.  routing with subnet doesn't sound like it is simple enough for me.  If you know.  I opened the hint app on my iPhone and was hoping to turn it off there, but there was a giant warning about not being able to turn it back on unless I had a wired connection.  I have the t-mobile going into a flint 2 router via ethernet.  would that count as a wired connection and I could access via hint if my iPhone was on the flint ssid?  My entire goal here is to turn off the cox modem radio and the t-mobile radio to reduce interference with my flint 2 router when I then have wired to my orbi so that I didn't have to change the network for every wireless device in the house.  I may also decide to turn off the radio for the flint 2 which I only introduced in order to have two internet data source into one ssid as backup in case I am not at home and want my security to continue to be active.

You *might* be able to route through the Flint router, IF it supports a Policy Based Routing schema or you set up the port-forwarding for whatever the modem requires (between the VLAN and your WAN segments).

If your router has an obvious way to do this, or you want to dig into whatever forwarding the TMo Gateway, then you'll be able to access it through the secondary (Flint) router (ports or wireless) connection.  I can explain how to do this with several SMB (Unifi, Cisco, et.) router-platforms, but I have no exposure to the whatever lineup/manufacturer the Flint router is from.

Posting on their forums is probably the best way to determine how to do this, on that platform, IME, since the people there will be familiar with the necessary forwarding/routing for that platform.

Or, just plug your laptop/whatever into the TMo Gateway, when you want to make changes on it, simpler, but less elegant, I suppose.

Edit: I see now, that's a GL-iNet router, rebranded (the MT6000 model).  That's a good platform (I use one of their setups as a travel-router for VPN back to my home-Unifi VPN and for Tailscale), and I'm confident if you search around and/or ask this in their forums you'll find an answer to this.  

Thank you so much.  with the combined information I have been able to turn off the radios and fairly confident that I can turn them back on.  I purchased the flint to invoke failover with two data inputs.  I have a ton to learn about the flint, but I believe it will be awesome once I can get vpn working.  I had so many radios on from the two sources, the flint, and then my orbi that I was gettin a ton of interference.  

10/26/24… The HINT app will turn off the 2.4G signal but TMobile will not allow it to turn off the 5G signal. Any suggestions?

This must be new because I have mine turned off with the hint control app.  I just checked to online networks and the router doesn’t show up.  

Have the same issue as  carolbelljax  . I started a new thread.

Mine had worked previously but not with my new phone with  the latest Hint version. I  downloaded the previous version and it turned everything off. My original app download was in August I think.