Net Gear Hotspot

[Syncopates]

Hi, I have an LTE capable Net Gear Mobile Hotspot unit currently sitting idle. I was wondering if I were to buy another Public Mobile Sim Card for it, could it share the existing cell number and use the data plan I'm on?

Thanks. 

[Syncopates]

NetGear LTE 4G AIRCARD 763S

[Community_QA]

@Syncopates   if should work , what model number is that? 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

 @Syncopates : There's no sharing of numbers or data between plans. If you activate a SIM then it would have all of its own plan. In another context it's called family plans. Not here.

While these devices can very often work perfectly fine with the PM SIM...why? Just hotspot off your phone. If you're wanting to offload the data traffic from the phone leaving you able to do calls and text then fine also. But if it's about consuming data on a phone account then it's kinda not worth it either. Get a full-on data plan from somewhere with lots of data.

[Syncopates]

Would be an interesting experiment. My unit is packed away out in the shop. I'll go grab it tomorrow and see what it will do. Still have the box and manual. It may explain some of it. But I think it will be up to the store/Public. I remember years ago, people stumbled on Tethering and the Phone Co. were quick to patch the problem. Now phones have a HotSpot mode, data is data.

[Syncopates]

I'm thinking it must be possible to get two SIM sharing the same number. Each SIM would still have a separate identity (serial number) which is assigned to a number. Will have to stop in at the store. The point is use the Net Gear as a hub of sorts and not have everything or anything else attached directly to the phone, security, battery life.

[Horemansuk]

Phone sim in... darn autocorrect

[Horemansuk]

I still have the device, it is older, runs hspa. 

If it helps I can put my phone somewhere in for a half hour and report the results 

[Horemansuk]

To clarify, the sim was in the hotspot device.

Just used a phone sim in the device. 

[Horemansuk]

I had two separate Sims so two numbers. No phone hotspot was used.

[Syncopates]

Thanks for the reply. Are you saying you've purchased an additional SIM for the Hotspot which uses the same phone number or, taken the SIM from the phone or, created a tether between the phone and Net Gear type device?

[Horemansuk]

I have done it. It created no issues.

May not be official, but it worked fine.