![]() ![]() Go to Administration > Firmware Update and it’ll have a quick look for you: There’s also a menu of options on the left (not shown, above) so I suggest your first step is to check for a firmware update. Yes, your device can receive text messages. It’s a bit tricky to see, but you can see it’s connected and has two local devices (left side), signal strength (fair), the mobile number / SIM of this device (mine is redacted), parental controls (lower center, OFF), data used, and messages received from AT&T. Hopefully, you’ll now be at the admin screen: So try that for the password and click “Sign In”. ![]() Which brings up the next question: what’s your admin password? If you’ve never done this before and never changed the settings, the default (which is obviously not secure) is attadmin. Then you’ll actually connect to the device and suddenly be here: So what’s the secret? To actually enter the domain with the prefix while you’re connected through the Nighthawk on your wifi settings. You could be sneaky like me and add the suffix “.att.com” to see if it really means. You might just enter that into a browser like Microsoft Edge and end up with a Bing search result: Leaving you to puzzle how exactly where this attwifimanager Web site is and how you connect to it! To manage settings and features, connect to the mobile router and visit or use the NETGEAR Mobile app. In the above photo, it shows battery life (the left curving blue bar), signal strength (the right curving blue bar), number of devices connected (3), percentage of data allotment used (48%) and what channel it’s using (22) but mine doesn’t seem to have the same info and offers a much more bare bones display of just the number of devices connected. For those of you who aren’t sure what it looks like, here’s a photo: Suffice to say, it has one button as its user input mechanism and no touchscreen on the front, so there are very, very limited ways you can interact with the device. Let’s stick to the administration of the unit itself. That’s what I do, paying approx $50 for 10GB of data when needed and zero on months when I know I’ll have good Internet access and won’t need the Nighthawk.īut that’s another story. What you might not realize because AT&T isn’t always very forthcoming about it is that once you own the Nighthawk, you can actually use pay-as-you-go data SIMs to get the bandwidth when you need it and avoid paying for months you don’t travel. The device itself is really slick, very well designed and both powerful and flexible for use as a hotspot for multiple devices. I had the very same point of confusion when I started using my own Netgear Nighthawk hotspot, actually, and imagine that a lot of people who aren’t network engineers are baffled by this. ![]()
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