ZTE MF920U, CAT4/4G LTE Mobile Wi-Fi, Unlocked Low Cost
ZTE MF920U, CAT4/4G LTE Mobile Wi-Fi, Unlocked Low Cost Portable Hotspot, Connect up to 10 Devices, 2000mAh Battery, with FREE SMARTY SIM Card- White
Commitment- free SIM plans
1 month plans. No contracts, no credit checks and no surprises at the end of the month. Cancel or change plans anytime. Pay in advance and enjoy the flexibility.
Add-ons that never expire
If you run out of data, add-ons are 1 Pound per GB – the same as it costs on our Data discount plans. Buy them from your dashboard and keep them until you use every MB.
Truly unlimited calls & texts
To standard UK landlines and mobiles, and roaming within EU countries. Call and text your friends and family as much as you want. No catch.
Keep your number
Simply text ‘PAC’ to 65075 to get a code valid for 30 days. We’ll walk you through steps to enter this code to transfer the phone number you want to keep.
| Weight: | 190 g |
| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 6.3 x 1.2 cm; 190 Grams |
| Brand: | ZTE |
| Model: | ZTE MF920U |
| Colour: | White |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Manufacture: | Livewire Telecom Limited |
| Dimensions: | 10.5 x 6.3 x 1.2 cm; 190 Grams |
Arrived quickly and easy to setup. Has a mobile app as well to control the router. A great product, just what we needed instead of paying for costly installation of fibre and monthly contract.
It is quite straight forward to set up, however, the instruction booklet makes it seem as if it would be more difficult and tells you not to ‘rudely’ open the cover for the SIM card slot.
I bought the 4G dongle hoping to use it as a connection backup in an Asus router.
It was a gamble: it wasn’t listed in the list of compatible dongles (all very old and very slow) and… it works perfectly.
If you are looking for a 4G dongle for an Asus router this is the best option.
Inserted a SIM card I already had so did not use the SIM card that came with the dongle. I plugged into a MacBook Pro laptop and was up and running quickly. Really easy. I am not technical and had all sorts of bother with the previous dongle I purchased which was a different make to this. This feels much better quality than the previous one and was the same price. I would highly recommend this dongle to people.
Never heard of Mifi. Found this beauty. Very easy to set up with S m art y sim card. She runs netflix and a kindle and has had no trouble!
Just a note about setting up S mart y card. Which was a little harder.
Activate online, so set it up on a laptop is best. Choose your plan. Then it can take a little while for that to kick in and wifi to work.
When it says text sent, thats online on your sim account. It wont appear on the screen.
Hope that helps.
Wish i had known about mifi before renewing contract with VM. Would have save 25 a month! Im swapping in a years time.
Hope that helps….
I bought this little Hotspot from my Caravan. Paired with a data sim from a well-known provider, it provides the portable wifi the family needs without battering my phone’s data allowance. The Wi-Fi bubble is good if not excellent, but in a caravan or similar, you don’t want it broadcasting too far. It is simple to set up, and easy to manage via a browser, and I have had no problems after a summer of solid use. At the price, it is a solid buy, recommended. 5 Stars.
Speedy delivery. So easy to set up. Non stop full signal since set up in an area I’ve had trouble connecting using my phone. Really pleased I installed this & at such value for money I highly recommend it!
I struggled a bit to get started but that was because I hadn’t read the instructions properly. I am away from my home wifi quite a lot and always worry about running out of data on my phone so this gadget will be extremely useful as an extra source. The Smarty sim works well but I am exploring other sims and may try using a ‘3’ data sim that lasts for 12 or 24 months and then simply be replaced with a new one when it runs out rather than having a monthly deal.
We (family of 5) wanted internet access while we were on holiday in Turkey. This provided exactly that. Even when we were at the beach. We purchased a local Turkcell data Sim card with 200g load on board and it lasted longer than the 2 week holiday.
I so impress with its speed it can give. I have a three days sim and I achieved an amazing nearly 64 mbps download speed which I was missing.
So far seem less connectivity. No drops of calls/ Voice/ picture when connected to work laptop on MS teams. Others gave me trouble and with Huwei I couldn’t connect to MS TEAMS.
Impressive user interfaces including Reset and WPS button outside so don’t have to open the cover and take battery out.
I reckon great product in its category and price range.
I was considering an expensive cat 11 product from TO LINK which is priced arround 150, if this didn’t work.
2. Unlocked to all networks, do you don’t have to stick with the promotional / complementary sim provided.
3. Battery and back cover is fixed. Which is great asthetic in my opinion as you are saved with opening the cover over and over as the case has been when connection used to drop with other devices then I had to remove the battery and reinsert or use the reset button provided inside the cover .
Great product. I will give a 5 star.
The battery life is about 2-4 hours from my testing the last 24 hours.
I can confirm ee, bt, ee data only sims work perfectly. When the other sims arrive will update this.
We have order a few other sims cards to test out as ee unlimited data 40 a month on pay as you go and then you need a bundle minimum bundle is 5. So your looking at 45 a month.
Now to the longer breakdown. I needed an internet solution that I could move around with me from place to place, and after looking around I landed on the ZTE Mobile Hotspot. 4G was a worry, but 5G models were far too cost prohibitive to consider at the time of writing. However, with a sim that allows tethering like the Smarty one included, you may be able to use a modern smart phone to fulfill the same functions (if not better) than the ZTE.
A few reviews I looked at claimed the setup was confusing, but I found it was simple if you followed the instructions – sometimes very literally. An example of this was the sim card itself; the diagram in the book shows exactly the way it needs to face without telling you explicitly. It may be a struggle to get the sim card inside with how recessed the slot is, but a pair of tweezers or other tool should do the trick. It was similarly easy to activate the included sim card, and within twenty minutes of setting up the billing for it (and restarting) the device was functional and I was away.
Speed wise I tend to get around 2.5MB/s at its highest – not zippy but I’m used to lower end broadband packages. Ping also tends to be higher than I’m used to when playing the occasional game, even when sitting right next to the device I feel it, but if you’re not in a need for ultra fast response times you’ll be alright. Youtube works fine at most times of the day even if the quality jumps around and you can do things like sending emails or browsing the web with no troubles. Just keep your expectations tempered when dealing with 4G.
The interface for the ZTE is also fine, allowing you to customize and adjust certain parameters to your liking, such as port forwarding or modifying the SSID password. Nothing too fancy.
Battery life is the only criticism I have with the device. If I took it with me to another room to sleep I’d wake up to it being fully drained, and it takes about four hours to hit a full charge even when plugged into a USB wall adapter for a phone. If you’re going long distances, need it for longer than about six hours or don’t have access to a wall outlet, either turn it off when it’s not in use or use a portable charger.
I initially bought this device as I had recently acquired a general use SIM (i.e. one can use in a mobile phone for making calls, texting and having data for accessing the internet) from a well known brand to use with my old portable hotspot or in my Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite tablet. Sadly this general use SIM didn’t work in my unlocked devices, so I decided to buy this ZTE device as it offered a 4g/LTE service. However, I then discovered the general sim didn’t work in it either (i.e. it wouldn’t give me internet access when I tried to link my Amazon Kindle, Windows 10 laptop or Samsung tablet to it). Further research and contact with the helpful folks at the general SIM provider led to a suggestion I should change the APN settings in the ZTE device but this also proved unsuccessful.
Lesson 1: Use an appropriate ‘data only’ SIM (that for me meant one that offers a 4g/LTE service which is what this particular ZTE model and my Samsung need). Funnily enough, Smarty offer a ‘data only’ option for the free Smarty SIM provided with this device!
Assuming you can get a good coverage from Smarty in your area (this can be checked on their website) and before you can use it in this device, you need to create an account with Smarty and select a data only sim package via the Smarty website.
Once you have created an account you then need to activate the SIM which took just 10 minutes (but you are warned it could take up to two hours).
Lesson 2: This ZTE device uses a ‘micro’ SIM (the Smarty SIM card comes in a standard size but it is easy to punch out a micro or nano sized SIM from it using the perforations provided). Do not try to fit a nano SIM in the device as you will probably have difficulty extracting it when you discover it doesn’t work).
Lesson 3: The activated Smarty SIM worked first time in the ZTE device and there was no need to change any APN or other settings. An Internet connection was immediately available on my laptop, kindle and tablet once I looked to see what wifi networks were available. Please note that I am not advocating that only a Smarty SIM will work in this device, as I suspect that other 4g/LTE data only SIMS offered by other mainstream providers will probably work too, but after my experiences, I would be a little cautious about trying to use a more ‘general’ sim that offers phone and text services in addition to data.
So now the ZTE is up and running smoothly, and my stress levels have receded, I am finding this ZTE device a delight to use. It is still early days, but so far so good. I am getting a good signal where I live with reasonably fast download speeds that are good enough to live stream television programmes, etc.
In Summary: I hadn’t realised how careful one needs to be when selecting a mobile wifi pocket hotspot and pairing it up with an appropriate SIM, so I hope this review is helpful if you are considering buying the ZTE MF920U, CAT4/4G LTE Mobile Wi-Fi device.