{"id":691638,"date":"2026-04-20T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=691638"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:25:45","slug":"ever-used-your-phone-as-a-hotspot-and-watched-the-battery-drop-in-real-time-itas-time-to-get-a-mobile-router-like-netgears-nighthawk-m3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ever-used-your-phone-as-a-hotspot-and-watched-the-battery-drop-in-real-time-itas-time-to-get-a-mobile-router-like-netgears-nighthawk-m3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever used your phone as a hotspot and watched the battery drop in real time?  &#8230; Itas time to get a mobile router like NETGEAR&#8217;S Nighthawk M3&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ever used your phone as a hotspot and watched the battery drop in real time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or felt it heating up in your pocket halfway through something important?<br \/>It works, but it\u2019s not built for consistency.<br \/>Phones already do a lot.<br \/>Messages. Maps. Photos. Everything else you rely on all day.<br \/>Then we ask them to be our WiFi for other devices too.<br \/>At some point, it starts to struggle.<br \/>That\u2019s why more people are starting to separate the two:<br \/>Letting phones be phones,<br \/>and using something built for connection.<br \/>Mobile routers like the Nighthawk M3 are built for sustained performance, not just getting you through in a pinch.<br \/>#NETGEAR #MobileWorking #RemoteWork #ConnectedLife #WorkFromAnywhere #Nighthawk #TravelTech<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Set Up Your Nighthawk M6 Pro Mobile Hotspot Router\" width=\"820\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7wYXrZ9v30?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever used your phone as a hotspot and watched the battery drop in real time? Or felt it heating up in your pocket halfway through something important?It works, but it\u2019s not built for consistency.Phones already do a lot.Messages. Maps. Photos. Everything else you rely on all day.Then we ask them to be our WiFi for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":691639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691641,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691638\/revisions\/691641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}