TP-Link 4G LTE MiFi, Portable Wi-Fi for Travel, Unlocked

This saved the day when we moved into our flat and broadband couldn’t be installed for a couple of weeks. It’s so easy to use. Will come in handy as a hub when we travel too.

I have purchased this mobile wifi router to use on holiday in the caravan. I must say it is a little belter. It works really well and you can add 5 devices to it. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket and the battery life is good to excellent, I say that because I haven’t actually tried it for long yet, but on testing, it works very well indeed.

Bought this to replace a n Aircard which had failed. Used whilst touring in caravan plus on trips abroad with a couple of different sims it really has worked well, connected to all of our phones, ads and streaming via fire stick it works extremely well. Very pleased with this purchase and its performance to date.

I decided to give this a go because I had enough of our expensive but unreliable home broadband I paid 40 a month for.
I now use an unlimited data sim for 18 a month and have better connection than ever.
An additional plus is that it is mobile and can be carried during holidays.

I use this mifi at home and take it with me on holiday and use it in my touring caravan. However at home needs to be near a window and in the caravan near a roof ventilation window because difficult to get a signal from outside to inside. Runs all my devices including television laptops and mobile phones.

Internet Wi-Fi in your pocket. Great to have so my grandsons are kept entertained on their tablets whenever they are in my car or out and about with their mom.

This 4G mifi device is ideal for travelling, especially as a couple or family with several devices, and you want to avoid horrendous roaming data rates. It’s very pocketable and portable and of sturdy construction.

It takes a full sized SIM card (adaptors are included). Just get a local SIM card for the country you’re travelling to (or one with good rates there), make sure it’s activated (if the mobile network activation requires making a phone call, you will need to do this with another phone first as this device can’t make voice calls), connect to the WiFi access point with the details on the sticker and you’re ready to go.

The TPMiFi app is pretty good – which you can use when you’re connected to the device. It’s pretty modern design and easy enough to use (though some of the features might a bit hidden ). You can throttle individual devices which might be handy to ensure little Jonny doesn’t use all of your data by watching hundreds of slightly different 4K baby shark remixes. You can change the WiFi signal strength to eek a bit more out of the battery. You can also view SMSs received too.

The battery was the only part which was a little disappointing. It’s removable (big plus as it makes it very repairable in theory), but in areas with less 4G signal (e.g. rural areas) it can drain quite quickly especially when using lots of data. However, it can operate whilst being charged – so you can pair it with a USB power bank (like an Anker PowerCore) to stay connected longer.

Overall, thoroughly worth the modest investment if you use it even just for a couple of trips abroad.

This is just what I needed! We are currently staying in rented accommodation for approx 6 months and the only internet offers ic ould find online were 12month minimum contract. So I thought I’d give this a shot instead. I’ve paired it with a Lebara unlimited internet usage SIM. Both my partner and I work from home and this runs the internet perfectly without any issues throughout the day. We do move the router about the house depending on where we are to improve service (e.g. for TV in the evening we bring it downstairs). The charge is impressive and it’s easy to monitor via the app so you can plug it in and continue using it when the battery gets low.
Initial set up for the SIM is a bit annoying but if you download the tpMiFi app first you can view text messages received by the SIM there (would have saved me 30mins had I know this). Cannot praise this piece of kit enough. Definitely worth the money and the fact you can take it out with you into the garden, away on holiday etc just makes it even more useful! Full marks from me.

The good thing is that, well, it works. I got an iD Mobile SIM, it worked ok with the TP. I have used it in hotels, on travel, in conferences etc. It needs a USB socket for power, I’d rather it has its own power plug. Another thing is that the display stays on for about 20 seconds; every little you got to touch the button to get the display. There is no indication that the device is on. So it’s so easy to forget that it is still on, when you mean to turn it off. Where there is no traffic through it, I think it will power itself off after some duration. Haven’t tested that enough to be sure.

There is an app for the TP; it gives a better interface, but does not much more beyond what functions are available on the interface on the TP.

There is an interesting thing, a good thing, which is that if you plug the USB cable in to your computer, it will be recognised on the computer as a LAN connection, plus you can still connect to TP on wifi. The LAN is better than WIFI on reliability and performance. This will be handy when the storage card (SD Card) is used, but I haven’t tried that.

Because my iD Mobile is unlimited data, I am not so concerned about accuracy of display on the TP about data usage.