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Re: Turn off WiFi on T-Mobile Home Gateway
You all may have missed the boat it seems with the T-Mobile gateway. You aretrying 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 broadcast192.168.1 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.1Ver0likes0Comentarios