Hello there,
I've been trying to use my AR750 with a hotspot, an orbic R500L5
For some reason when I try either USB Tethering or Connecting via the WAN port, my AR750 is able to successfully connect to the internet but any clients I connect to the AR750 wireless or to the AR750 LAN ports receive no internet and are unable to get through to the internet. If I connect to the hotspot Wireless or Ethernet port, I have no issue getting internet access. I'm really not sure why the AR750 cannot pass the internet connection through to my clients
Any help on how to further troubleshoot this issue would be greatly appreciated as I'd prefer to use a direct physical connection via ethernet or tethering rather than repeat the hotpspot's wireless.
When you are connected to the LAN port of the AR750, check to see if it’s showing a link on the WAN port with the hotspot. If not, then that’s why. But if there is a link, ensure the AR750 is getting a WAN IP assignment from the hotspot. If not, then that is why there’s no internet on the AR750. So, you could just set the AR750 WAN IP/gateway/DNS manually for the hotspot’s Ethernet IP network.
It should work since I have an AR750S connected to a cable modem via its WAN port, and setup the AR750S repeater feature to connect to my cell phones hotspot which I only turn on when the cable internet is down. I have all of the AR750S wireless features turned off since I have a wireless router connected to the AR750S LAN port (middle Ethernet port).
All of my devices connected to the wireless router that is behind the AR750S successfully connect to the internet through the AR750S when either the cable modem Internet is active, or the cell phone’s hotspot is active via the AR750S repeater when the cable internet is down.
I also noticed that when the AR750S is connected to the cell phone hotspot via the AR750S repeater, the AR750S repeater feature actually shows the cell phones 5G network symbol which is pretty cool.
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Thank you for the reply, I'm a bit of an idiot for not figuring it out sooner, it was an issue with the encrypted DNS settings & having it override the DNS settings for all clients. Once I disabled the override and set DNS to automatic, my clients gained internet access (both wired & wireless).
obligatory Its always DNS