D-Link DWR-978 5G AC2600 Wi-Fi Router, Super Fast 5G Download Up to 1.6 Gbps, AC2600 Wi-Fi, MU-MIMO, 4 x Gigabit Port, Gigabit Internet Port, Removable External Antennas, Unlocked for All Networks

5 stars from me. It worked well out of the box. I started work within 2minutes. The weak link was the o2 coverage (via giffgaff). After 9 months the unit started to turn itself off. I did normal diagnostics and then reported it to d-link support. They were very impressive and sent me a replacement very quickly under the two year warranty. For the price/value, this unit is impossible to beat. I'd buy from d-link again without hesitation.

I live in a semi-rural area just outside of London with no FTTP available to me. I have a top-tier Vodafone 5G mobile internet subscription. The local 5G mast is approx 1 mile away and I have line-of-sight to it from my house. I also have an external 5G antenna pointing directly at the mast, connected to the router's MIMO inputs with some pretty tough cables. Everything should be set up perfectly for a stable and fast mobile internet. I've used D-Link products quite extensively in the past (mainly network switched) and had no problems, so although this router looks 'dated' I trusted the brand. It was fairly cheap compared other routers at the time and I thought I could balance reliability and price with the D-Link. What a mistake. I've owned it for 2 months and had nothing but trouble. Like other reviews here, I'm seeing drop-outs, weak 4-and-5G signal (even with my external antenna!), no 5G signal at all when using the router's own 5G antennas, frequent freezes, etc. The feature set is appalling for any modern router: * No static DHCP reservation * No support for security standards above WPA2 (even my iPhone keeps warning me that the network's security is weak) * No client list page, just a small pane on the router's admin panel homepage * No option to install a VPN * In-built 'speedtest' feature doesn't work - it always says "failed". The feature has been removed from recent documentation updates but it's still in the router's menu * No firmware updates available (apart from a minor patch version a long time ago) * The router body is huge, top-heavy, and cannot be wall-mounted * The 4 ethernet ports are in the most awful position, and the stand doesn't have cut-outs for the cable. So you have to decide between passing the cable under the stand and un-balancing the entire router until it falls on its face, or bending your cable into an unnatural 90-degree shape so you can still keep the router upright * System log doesn’t log anything useful at all, and it appears to get wiped when the router is rebooted As for specific problems with mine: * The 5G light doesn't light up on the front hardware panel, even though the admin page tells me I have a signal * It drops the connection so frequently, I've had to set it to reboot early every morning * It often freezes while my wife and I are both on conference calls * One weekend it had such awful performance I went into the admin panel to try debugging, and I saw a whole load of garbled data pre-filled in the WAN connection parameters form * The admin panel stops responding from time-to-time * Even with my external antenna pointing at a mast close-by, the strongest 5G signal I can get is "3 bars" at -105dbm * Sometimes it doesn't recover from its daily scheduled reboot and it sits with its lights off like an expensive white plastic brick until I hard-reboot it by pulling the plug. It 'bricked' itself again this morning and I've had enough, which is why I've come back to leave this review. I'm now outside of the Amazon return window so I don't even know if I'll be able to get my money back. I'm so desperate for a reliable router that I've ordered a TP-Link to arrive today. The D-Link will probably sit gathering dust in my garage for several years as a monument to a costly mistake, until enough time has passed that I don't feel shame and anxiety any more (and that my wife has forgotten about how much money I spent on it), and I can take it to the dump.

Great little mobile broadband. Replacement for my ZTE which I will never buy again. Although I just got it, the quality is clear. Has an SD slot which is an interesting addition.

This hub has an easy to use set-up wizard and allows advanced settings for the technically minded to play with IPv4 and IPv6 wi-fi and it accepts various sized Sim Cards in the same slot (micro size sits on a tray). It has both an 3G/LTE mobile network ariel and a wi-fi ariel, either or both maybe replaced with an external ariel in poor reception areas. It doesn't appear to have as sensitive a receiver part as my old D-link hub had (no internet available at around -67dBm) using my 6M high externally mounted ariel, so only gets four stars, because I needed change mobile provider to get a more usable signal.

Bought one of these to take on holiday as the wi fi in our regular hotel is poor. The device was easy to set up and works a treat. Please note that these devices only work in wi fi hot spots, so if your not in a hot spot then it won’t pick up a signal and you will get a constant flashing red light

If you want a WiFi hot-spot for the UK then this works well for little money. However, when most providers are giving huge amounts of data, I don't see why you wouldn't just run a hot spot off your phone. I bought this to use in France, because data roaming is a casualty of Brexit, and although many operators say roam like at home, they impose limits, which usually mean 5-6GB is all you get. Therefore we needed a hot-spot for our WiFi free holiday home (teenagers). This powered up and connected to a French network, received texts but would not provide any data. Tried with 2 different SIMs, both of which worked in phones. The issue seems to be that to provide data roaming, French networks want a full 4g connection, and this can only manage LTE. Therefore its being returned but its a decent product to use at home.

We live in a very remote area with no fast fibre. On the old home broadband the download speed at best was 1.5 and it is now around 8 so am really impressed! Also a lot cheaper. Very pleased with it!

Ho acquistato questo hotspot D-Link DWR-932 e ne sono rimasto davvero soddisfatto. L'installazione è stata semplicissima: ho configurato la scheda SIM direttamente da telefono e successivamente ho avuto accesso completo al pannello di gestione tramite l’interfaccia web (es: 192.168.0.1), che si è rivelata chiara e ben organizzata. In pochi minuti sono riuscito a personalizzare il nome della rete e impostare la password, tutto con facilità anche per chi non è un esperto. La potenza del segnale è ottima: stabile, veloce e senza interruzioni, perfetto sia per il lavoro che per lo streaming o la navigazione. Esteticamente è molto bello, compatto e leggero — sta comodamente in tasca o nello zaino. Anche la durata della batteria è più che sufficiente per una giornata fuori casa. Lo consiglio a chi cerca un dispositivo affidabile, semplice da configurare e pronto all’uso, magari anche per chi viaggia spesso o ha bisogno di una connessione stabile in zone dove il Wi-Fi domestico non arriva bene.

Works for first month or 2 perfectly and im using this as a remote router for a area thats a wifi blackspot in a shed Then your spend the rest of the time cutting your thumb open trying to undo the back to take the battery out and put it back in to turn it back on again If its for the same reason as mine by the tp link amplifier or a cat cable

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Estaba buscando un router móvil para cuando tengo que trabajar cuando estoy de viaje y no quiero descargar la batería de mi teléfono rápidamente. El aparato funciona y es barato, pero la velocidad que da es muy baja. Lo he probado con líneas de O2, Orange y Digi y con todas es más o menos lo mismo. Por ejemplo, con una línea de Digi, en mi móvil he logrado descargar a 400Mbps pero en este aparato usando el mismo chip, en el mismo lugar, no me da más de 15Mbps, está bien que es solo 4G y el móvil 5G, pero creo que la velocidad debería ser mayor. Sin embargo, por lo que vale (me costó 16 euros en oferta) decidí conservarlo y no devolverlo.

Dit is eindelijk een toestel dat werkt met een Telenet data simkaart! Ik heb het zeer snel kunnen instellen, geen probleem. 2 andere toestellen van een ander merk, heb ik moeten terugsturen, die erkenden de data simkaart niet. Eindelijk een oplossing met deze dlink_DWR-932 mobiel routertje.