Huawei B593s-22 LTE/4G Unlocked UK Plug Wireless Router- Black-(150 mbps)

This is ideal if you live somewhere without access to good broadband. Basically it provides everything your normal broadband would provide, as well as allowing you to plug in a USB hard drive which you can share on the network. You can easily take it with you too, so you can have your broadband connection wherever you go.Signal strength with the built in aerial is surprisingly good- better than on my phone. I bought the additional external aerial, which seems to add about one bar to the signal strength, but I'd only recommend that if you have poor reception.Wi-Fi signal coverage is really good, covering all of our large 3 bed house and garden.It has 4 Ethernet ports, so you can plug in other network attached devices or have a fixed higher speed connection if you use it with a desktop computer. Some other reviewers have mentioned having difficulty getting the connection working. I suspect this is an issue with the SM; you'll need a mobile Wi-Fi SIM, as some providers block use in Wi-Fi dongles etc. Also, whilst the router supports port forwarding, most mobile providers don't allow you to forward incoming connections, so remote access to a networked hard drive for example is less straightforward, but this is not a problem with the router itself, and for 99% of people this would never be an issue anyway.I am also using it to replace our landline phone connection with voip, which saves a lot of money.You should also note that it uses a standard size sim card. The only thing that I would really like to have seen would be an adsl option so that you wouldn't have to swap routers in different situations, but overall, very happy, good value for money.

Cracking piece of kit!!!! I've used a 3 sim card and EE sim card to share data and still make calls. Uses a standard size sim card not nano or micro. You might need a sim card adaptor. Make sure you use a mobile minutes and data sim for voice call and not just a data only sim. If data only then use Skype or some other provider.You might find this a cheaper alternative to using a fixed line broadband solution especially if you work from different locations or have really rubbish broadband speeds and find mobile data is quicker.Really easy to set up and no real issues connecting to either of the two networks above.Ok - so there is an initial outlay but hopefully the info below will help balance out.Why would you consider this?1. Your broadband line speed is rubbish or the service is just not worth it (mums house)2. Fibre is expensive and relies on fixed line....cue the additional telephone line rental (mum won't pay or dad says no)3. You work from different locations and are currently paying for internet at home, office and mobile (aka techno grans house)4. You have an old school machine or kit at home that still needs a network port - woohoo there are 4 ports to use5. Yes you can tether (share) your internet connection from a mobile phone - but it falls over for point 4 and you don't really want to use the mobile with the additional output of wifi sharing next to your ear......hmmm all that radiation.......6. Buy a cheap cordless or corded handset to continue making calls if on mobile and data plan. Or use Skype only if you have a data plan7. Contingency in case your internet provider / telephone line falls over8. You can add a USB device to it too - I haven't tried it though9. Broadband rollout is being overtaken by better speeds from your mobile provider10. You have unlimited data or a very large data allowance with your mobile data plan11. You are moving house / office (aka Mum, Dad and Techno Gran kicked you out)Suggestion -Transfer your fixed line number to an online provider - eg Vonage (caveat you can't make emergency calls through this, use your mobile)Get yourself a mobile with data plan - can surf using data and calls using minutesData only - Use Skype, Vonage or other ones that work data only through your mobile on wife connected to this deviceHope this helps with your decision making.PS - I am not promoting or affiliated to either providers mentioned above. Just sharing my experience.

Oh gosh, best money I've ever spent...I'll spare everyone the details (phone lines cut by farmer) but I'd been running an O2 ZTE M710 3G dongle modem in our loft, linked to a Draytek router to share it, and we were getting some very variable results. I'd even connected-up a directional antenna and the best we got was a 2Mb/s rate - and some computers oddly got virtually nothing, then data, then nothing. I think the dongle was overloaded with multiple data request and couldn't cope. And the ping was about 3s (yes, 3,000ms!).So, 2 weeks ahead of the phone lines being due to be fixed, we (a family of 9) couldn't bear it any longer. "When's the WiFi (sic) going to be fixed?" I'd regularly hear. So I found this item on Amazon, compared it with a few others, and placed the order - hoping it would live up to its promises.Wow! Although I had trouble linking it to our Draytek unit (no doubt a setting I'd omitted), it's now directly linked to our house network and we're now getting a 4G signal with '3 bars'. We're now getting around 10Mb/s up AND download speeds - with pings around 80ms (needed for gaming). It's all highly variable of course, but such an improvement over a cheap dongle.The only trouble I had was getting O2 to connect at 4G, for which I had to set a custom APN of 'm-bb.o2.co.uk' (with no authentication). 3G connected fine, but I think the default (auto) APN is for a pay-monthly SIM and ours is Pay as you Go and so it needed changing.The family is happy - on-line CS:GO & Wii-U players rejoice (yes, UPnP works too!).I haven't bothered with a dedicated antenna, but might do in the future. Anyone got any experience of this?Summary: works like magic. Easy set-up with just a slight 4G setting change for me. Great signal reception. Fast speeds & lots of settings for advanced users. Am truly amazed and wish I bought this 3 weeks ago when the lines were cut.UPDATE: I'm now using it elsewhere, in a rural location (with no external antenna), and 3 bars on EE is getting me 40Mbps download and 15Mbps upload. This really is an amazing device!