This was purchased to replace a router which was playing up, and it works very well. Just a shame the guy who said the original router was not working had failed to add our email server IP Address to the router firewall exceptions.

The only thing is you have to connect to internet and put in your pin number for your sim card if you have one if you have no pin number it should work fine my one working fine

This was so easy to set up, we have a property without a phone line so no broadband. We were told about this portable router & we’re also given details of a non contracted monthly sim to use with it . Up & running with in 30mins just plug it in, insert the sim & hey presto. And we’re not tech savvy.

Easy to configure used a Smarty sim 16 for unlimited data with 2 Bingfu 4G LTE Antenna on the camper roof , found that we was the only person in a group was able connect to the internet in the middle of the Forest of Dean ,,used a 2V 3A Buck Converter Voltage Regulator (8V-40V to 12V 3A) fitted with 5.5mm x 2.1mm DC plug to power it up ,,,the mains adapter has an output of 12.01v with a 5.5mm x 2.1mm DC plug + centre

Faster than fibre to cabinet broadband in rural area I live in.

Did well for 9 months but for the last week now only 3mbs down from20. Nothing has changed…just the weather…too hot?? Now I changed the firmware and the weather is cooler and all is gooood … 35 mbs

The router itself is good. However I’ve tried various network Sims and don’t seem to get the networks advertised Bandwidth. Not sure if that is my location & signal Strength for the router. Using as a work basic backup solution so felt it was sufficie

Got this while we were waiting for by to install our broadband. Works really well and can handle 30 plus things connected to it at once

Got a local (Movistar) sim. Up and running in five minutes. Careful if streaming HD uses about 4Gb an hour. Soon goes through the 40Gb on the sim card on Disney/Netflix unless you change streaming quality.

Bought this for use in our static caravan, easy to install, easy to use, far cheaper than the on site Wi-Fi . Would recommend.

Used to give temporary wifi in holiday cottage This was simple to set up. It picked up a poor 4G signal (cottage in a bit of a dip) at the cottage and gave good strong wi-fi coverage that penetrated some thick stone walls.
Overall, better than expected result for non-technical user and happy family when it rained.
As it does. In Wales. On holiday.

This router is a very good high quality one. Provides you with great speeds as long as you’re in an area with good signal etc. I used it with an EE Sim and i was getting about 100mbps down and 30mbps up which is a good 4g+ speed although it is a bit slower than my iPhone if the sim were to be in the phone but thats ok. Used it for about a month with a sim then i decided to cancel the sim since i no longer needed it so now i just use the WAN port to plug it into the main router that i have elsewhere in the building to my room. Solid connection! Never had any hiccups or any unusual disconnections from the Wifi etc

I decided to purchase one of these as a backup when Virgin Media kept messing up with very poor speed or non at all.
It has all the features of my older Archer C9, but uses less power (smaller PSU) , DDNS service including NO-IP and tp-link , built in VPN , PPTP and OpenVPN
In my area it is using the dual 4G towers to get a 100% signal at 70Mbs using antennas supplied. I may change to external ones with a bit more research to improve further.
As a test, I started 2 x UHD playback from BBC on separate TVs while connected to V.Media Cable and then pulled the VM box network cable (used as a modem only), the router changed over without any video interruption or buffering, to 4G operation.
That was the 3G/4G fallback in wifirouter mode. It can be used purely as a 3/4G router if needed.
I used a new Vodafone sim card which needed no configuration, just insert and it does the rest.
choose a plan where you only need to top up 5-10 every 90-120 days to minimise costs, could be any network with 3 or 4G but check network for best coverage in your area

I love the UI and the range is okay! If you don’t rely on it for your primary connection or you can live with fluctuating speeds and coverage it’s pretty alright especially for the price. I found it particularly useful for hotel stays as hotel wifi was awful.

I did have issues with mine as the network in my area is prone to outages and I live in a bit of a dead zone so it just didn’t really work out for for my use case but you shouldn’t really hold that against the device.

This surprised me as it’s better than I expected.
I’ve managed to connect my smart tv, iPhone, homepods and laptop.

It was fairly easy to set up (make sure you access the admin interface on your computer and change the wifi password!!). You can also install an app on your phone to access the router’s admin menu.

I thought this takes a nano sim card but it doesn’t, it’s actually the micro card that it takes but they’ve enclosed an adapter to put the nano in then slot it in to the router. Please note you’ll have to insert an unlocked sim card in to the router (i.e.: a sim card which doesn’t require a pin number to work) but if you don’t have one, you can disable the sim card’s pin through the router’s admin menu on your laptop.

Speeds are ok-ish, watchign HD content on tv is ok but you do get some pixelation and buffering at times. If you can afford the 5G routers, go for one for those but they’re so much more expensive sadly.

The router offers ethernet connections as well (which is fab) as well as dual band, 2.4GHz and 5GHz (which I assume is why it’s so expensive!). You can disable either bands or have them both at the same time (then the devices choose which one they connect to).

Bizarrely it comes with a very short charging cable.

Overall:
Good if you can’t get a broadband connection where you are but you have very strong mobile network signal but very expensive (I paid 119, I expected a good 4G router would be around 50-60 max).

I live in a non-cable area where the BT infrastructure is terrible. Our absolute top broadband speed that we can get through conventional methods is 4Mb, yet the 4G signal is excellent, regularly giving us 40-80 Mb on our phones (how backwards is that). Since I knew devices like this were a thing, I contacted EE and as a fairly loyal customer I ended up with a 64GB data sim for 27 per month. They sent me a little diddy “Osprey” 4G router to go with it, which would probably be fine for actual mobile users but it is somewhat unsuitable for home use due to the lack of UPnP. Plus, I liked the idea of switching between home and 4G broadband on the one device, so I ordered one of these.

The other reviews saying that it was a true plug and play type of thing didn’t really match my experience. One issue is due to no fault of the hardware itself – we get our broadband through Sky, who it turns out actually go out of their way to try to stop you from using your own kit. As I’m not totally without technical ability I managed to circumvent all this, but if you’re looking for the “plug and play” experience but have Sky as your broadband provider I’d have to recommend against a device like this. Incidentally if anyone wants to know what I did to make this work feel free to leave a comment.

Secondly, while it seemed to work fine initially (and was actually our sole source of broadband for a while for reasons I won’t go into), one day about a month later I switched over to 4G and was surprised to find the speed we were getting had slowed right down. It was at roughly the same speed we got through the fixed line broadband, which was horrifying when you consider the entire reason I’d bought into all this. Worse, it would completely drop every now and again. It still worked fine in home broadband mode which you would have thought would have placed the blame squarely on EE, or at least the 4G hardware inside the unit, but as it turns out it was actually the most basic of things – I had to choose a different wi-fi channel for the router. Nothing at all would have suggested a problem with the wi-fi – everything was showing good signal, even when the net had completely dropped. However setting the channel manually, and setting the bandwidth to 20hz made the 4G connection literally 10x faster and stopped the drops. Bizarrely, it would seem that if left to its own devices, the device will sometimes automatically set the wi-fi channel to something that interferes with the 4G. That’s astonishingly stupid.

So yeah, in summary, even if all the evidence points to something else, try messing with the wi-fi channel if you have problems as the auto channel detection is apparently rubbish. However, that aside, the product is now working perfectly and I am more than happy with it day to day.

UPDATE: Removing a star. Internet drops have started to rear their head again in spite of messing with the wifi channel. It is looking like the same issue myself and others have reported – all signal bars are fine, yet the internet keeps going down for a few moments, and more frequently than is acceptable. And again, only in 4G mode. Being pretty sure this wasn’t EE’s fault (the signal, speed and reliability we get on our phones is outstanding) I started wondering what was unique about the 4G setup versus switching to broadband. This led me to the DNS server – for reasons I won’t go into, in 4G mode it was using TP-Link’s default DNS server, and in broadband mode it uses Sky’s. Wondering whether the TP-Link DNS server was flaky I switched over to Google’s DNS (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 if you’re interested) and since then, the connection seems much more stable. I couldn’t get it to drop once while stress testing it last night – but I won’t say emphatically that the problem is resolved because I said that about the wifi channel didn’t I? Something for people to try though, if you have the same problems.

I’ll update again when I’m satisfied the problem is resolved, or if I needed to do more work. Starting to envy the people for whom this was “plug and play” – it hasn’t been my experience in the slightest.

FINAL UPDATE: Well, it’s been a good nine months and things have definitely settled down, so I’m re-adding a star. 4G is generally slower than our mobiles, but it’s fine and definitely faster than our awful Sky broadband. To recap, using Google’s DNS was ESSENTIAL, and you may also get better results by altering the wireless channel and bandwidth settings. In reference to the comment on this review, I haven’t marked it down for any of Sky’s issues at all.