@kernel from Uniterm Direct was kind enough to loan us one of these units so I thought I'd pay it forward and do quick review for the benefit of the forum. 
What's in the box: Router, Ethernet cable, PSU, SIM card adapters (nice touch!) and some docs.
Supported Bands: FDD-LTE Cat4 (800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz) / TDD-LTE (2300/2600MHz)
WiFi: 2.4 & 5GHz
More Info: Product Page
Setup was a breeze. The wizard starts off by forcing you to set a password. After entering country settings it works out your provider APN settings and lets you setup WiFi. In my case I used Telkom Mobile and it worked out of the box. When the wizard is done you are presented with a status page:
First thing I had a look at was the SMS page, there is even a full SMS tool under advanced where you can send a new SMS and check old messages and sent.
I then set a data limit (Yay, no more OOB shark!)
I ran speedtest.net which ate over 100mb of data and then failed. I'm not sure quite what I was expecting in terms of alerts but at that point I discovered my internet connection was down and I couldn't open new sites so I went back to the router page and got this.
So that feature actually works really well. I then bumped it up and did a new test. Looks pretty good!
Some other useful features:
I didn't spend more than an hour testing this but the only issues I could find was:
So in summary: Great device. I think this is way more feature rich than the Huawei routers and certainly has a much better Web GUI.
What's in the box: Router, Ethernet cable, PSU, SIM card adapters (nice touch!) and some docs.
Supported Bands: FDD-LTE Cat4 (800/900/1800/2100/2600MHz) / TDD-LTE (2300/2600MHz)
WiFi: 2.4 & 5GHz
More Info: Product Page
Setup was a breeze. The wizard starts off by forcing you to set a password. After entering country settings it works out your provider APN settings and lets you setup WiFi. In my case I used Telkom Mobile and it worked out of the box. When the wizard is done you are presented with a status page:
First thing I had a look at was the SMS page, there is even a full SMS tool under advanced where you can send a new SMS and check old messages and sent.
I then set a data limit (Yay, no more OOB shark!)
I ran speedtest.net which ate over 100mb of data and then failed. I'm not sure quite what I was expecting in terms of alerts but at that point I discovered my internet connection was down and I couldn't open new sites so I went back to the router page and got this.
So that feature actually works really well. I then bumped it up and did a new test. Looks pretty good!
Some other useful features:
- IPSec VPN
- Dynamic DNS options: DynDNS and No-IP.
- WiFi: Usual stuff. WPA/WPA2 Personal/Enterprise, MAC filtering
- Wireless Guest network
- NAT, lots of options. Virtual Servers, Port triggers, DMZ
- SNMP monitoring. Not something you often seen on this level of device
- Basic traffic stats
I didn't spend more than an hour testing this but the only issues I could find was:
- If you try and change the LAN IP while DHCP is enabled you can delete the IP, but are unable to enter a new IP. Work around is to first disable DHCP and then change the IP. There needs to be some warning or different logic when making this change.
- Accurate signal strength. Simple percentage signal strength is of no use to me. I would really like to see the detailed RSRP/RSRQ/RSSI values.
So in summary: Great device. I think this is way more feature rich than the Huawei routers and certainly has a much better Web GUI.
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