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A 3D-printed wall mount for Netgear Nighthawk mobile 5G/LTE routers

I have recently designed and printed a wall mount for Netgear’s Nighthawk mobile 5G/LTE routers. More specifically a Nighthawk M5 (MR5200).

I have been inspired by an existing commercial wall mount for the Nighthawk M-series routers by FTS Hennig GmbH:

My inspiration: the wall-mount and antenna adapter from FTS Hennig.

Unfortunately, the mount is with a price tag of around 50 EUR rather expensive. So I decided to use our new lab 3D-printer and try do design it myself usings AutoDesk’s Fusion 360 software. The result is released here under a creative commons license:

https://github.com/stv0g/3d-printing/tree/master/netgear-m5-holder

The mount contains two three mounting holes which can be used for screwing it against a wall as well as some cutouts at the bottom for the accessibility of the TS9 antenna, USB-C and Ethernet ports.

My model rendered by AutoDesk Fusion 360.

For the TS9 antenna ports, I am using the following TS-9 to SMA adapters which can be screwed into the respective holes of the mount. This allows a permanent installation of an external 5G/LTA antenna while the router can be easily removed as the adapters align right with the connectors of the router.

Screw-in TS-9 to SMA Adapters.
Final print.

4 Gedanken zu „A 3D-printed wall mount for Netgear Nighthawk mobile 5G/LTE routers“

  1. Thank you for sharing! Im currently living in Berlin and I reading everything I find about this modem. You really went into the guts of this expensive equipment! Questions:

    1) Do you use it as your primary internet connection?
    2) Do you think it worth to spend almost 1k euro into it?
    3) How is the performance with and without antenas?
    4) Is there a way to discover the Cell ID you are connected to using the root access? reference https://www.cellmapper.net/
    5) Do you plan to make more posts about it?

    Thank you!!!

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    1. Hi Fabiano,

      Do you use it as your primary internet connection?

      No, I only use it only as an uplink for my camper van.

      Do you think it worth to spend almost 1k euro into it?

      I am not so sure about it. Its performance is great. However, you also find similar priced phones with 5G modems today.
      So using a phone or a self-build router with a mPCIe module could be more versatile.

      How is the performance with and without antenas?

      Its okay 🙂 In Germany in the Vodafone network, I achieve speeds around 300Mpbs.

      Do you plan to make more posts about it?

      No, currently not.

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  2. Thank you for your answers Steffen! One more question: Do you have any means of force this router to connect to the network using 5G Standalone (when there is a 5G SA available next to you) ?

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    1. Hi Fabiano,

      I have not looked into the details of the 5G modem of the device. I’ve focused more on the application processor rather than the baseband.
      I’ve tried to find more details about the baseband itself. But unfortuantely most of it seems to be under a NDA.

      Let me know if you find any more details 🙂

      Cheers,
      Steffen

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