Michael, One other thought about your problem. Maybe you have some other setting in the Bullet that is preventing your connection (maybe locked on a channel or something). You might consider making a backup of your Bullet configuration and then "factory reset" it and try configuring it again from scratch.
-- Russell Senior [email protected] On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 8:54 PM Michael Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 7:35 PM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2023, 17:47 Michael Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I have a local network using an Ubiquiti Bullet M2 feeding a Netgear > > router > > > that serves my various devices. The Bullet serves as an access point > and > > > pulls from an available wifi source. > > > I got a hotspot from Verizon for internet access. When I log into the > > > Bullet to select a source, the hotspot shows up on the list, but is not > > > selectable. It has good signal strength, just not the little circle > that > > > allows me to select it. > > > . > > > > > > I am confused about your network topology. So, you get in internet over > > wifi from somewhere, received by the bullet - that feeds Netgear router > by > > what? (Ethernet cable?) Then you get your other wifi devices connected to > > Netgear or back to bullet on different vlan or ?? Very confusing .... Now > > you want the bullet to be able to get internet from 2nd source (hotspot), > > but only when it is on? > > > > It loos like pretty complex order. Perhaps you need some low level access > > to the Linux network config on the bullet. If that is so, please consider > > a) simplifying your network topology and b) installing wrt on the bullet > so > > that you can configure the network and routing directly. > > > > -T > > > > Tomas > > > > Sorry if it was confusing. > > The bullet is connected to an antenna that picks up internet via wifi. The > ethernet from the bullet goes through a POE injector into the Internet/WAN > port of the Netgear router. My various devices (TV, Portal, a couple > Raspberry Pis, etc.) all connect to the Netgear router. Most of the time > there is local wifi available for me to connect to, but not always. When > wifi is not available, I have turned on the hotspot on my phone and > connected to it. However, when I leave, the network looses internet. > Lately, I've been having to use my phone a lot and have used up my meager > (6GB) monthly data allocation. Trying to resolve this, I obtained a > Verizon hotspot with 100GB monthly data. When I log into the bullet to > tell it what wifi to connect to, it shows the hotspot on the list, but does > not have the little circle that allows that source to be selected. > > Otherwise, every time I change the internet source, I have to go to every > device and log onto the new wifi. With up to seven or more devices, and > sometimes changing internet sources daily, that is a real pain. It is so > much easier to just have everything connected to the local network and only > change the bullet access point. And since lately local wifi hasn't always > been available to me, I wanted to use the hotspot. > > Does that clarify it at all? Any ideas on why the bullet connects to pretty > much everything but the Verizon hotspot? I am suspecting the issue is with > the Verizon hotspot, but not sure. > > Michael >
