Ok, so I got a weird one for you guys. I just want someone to confirm which of us was being a stupid asshole for me.
We have this LTE Internet at a remote site. It consists of a ZTE box like this:
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Going to a box like this:
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Which connects to an antenna outside. AFAIK this is just a glorified power adaptor that connects the antenna to the ZTE hub which does must of the actual work.
Follow me so far?
So when you are connected to the first box with a phone or computer, the default gateway is 192.168.XXX.1. When you connect to the wifi and you type in this ip address, you get the router login screen as one would expect.
Anyway, we have trouble with our setup this morning. We call the provider and have to do the whole song and dance where we go through their big dumb list of troubleshooting steps before they open a work order and send someone out. At one point the phone tech insisted that I enter 192.168.XXY.1 into a browser on a network connected device. I kind of say "With all due respect, I doubt that will do anything. The gateway is 192.168.XXX.1 my device ip is 192.168.XXX.68."
The phone tech was very insistent that this was for the modem, and the IP I stated was for the router/hub. So I put in 192.168.XXY.1 and predictably it doesn't work.
So here is my question for you guys. Is it even possible for what the phone tech was describing to work? When you are connected to a wifi network on a router, is it even possible to connect to a device a level above the router by entering an IP on a different gateway? Is that little black box, in fact, a modem with a little server running that you can log into via the ZTE box's wireless lan?