149€95
The product is good and the performance is good. On the other hand, the firmware suffers from a problem with the management of text messages... Although I patched it with the latest version available on the site, it is impossible to send SMS... It is however essential with my operator to recharge the DATA account of the 4G SIM. Big disappointment.
Excellent 4G reception. Easy to set up. however, unstable internet speed, reboot required regularly despite firmware and 3 bar 4 G updates. My TP link M3750 portable 4g rooter works in parallel and is faster and more stable. I'm sorry, it looked promising.
Easy to use, user friendly web interface and easily configurable, tested with an external Mimo antenna on Sosh and Freemobile in extreme conditions in 3G I am in France in the countryside, there is no 4G, hills and trees have invited themselves in the landscape!
Of course the two operators are on the same antenna. The only drawback is that I am obliged to use the DNS of OpenDNS. Otherwise the performance is 2 to 8 times better than my ADSL line.
I've been using it for a while now, but it's not a good idea to use it for a long time, so I'm going to use it for a long time.
Flow in the house 35up/15dw/lt50ms
Data rate at the window facing the antenna: 75up/35dw/lt32ms
The operation of the DWR953 in multi-WAN mode is totally erratic in my context of use (ADSL 6Mbps + 4G at 40Mbps with stable reception level from 96% to 100%)
The malfunctions occur both with 4G in primary and secondary link.
Symptoms in "load sharing" :
- 4G "sleep" with all traffic routed over ADSL,
- Bandwidth roller coaster from 1Mbps to 6Mbps,
- (Probably) random load balancing management that disrupts internet access (some sites don't like to see network packets with different IPs arrive for the same request).
As for the "failover" mode, it is not really usable since the 4G packages do not cut the service beyond the "fair use" but provide a drastic reduction of the bandwidth. No configuration possible on the DWR953 to trigger failover on bandwidth stub.
On the other hand, as soon as one has an exclusive use of 4G or ADSL, the operation of this router is stable. I have not noticed any loss of connection after 2 months of use and many (many) tests.
The last but not the least is that it is regrettable that its routing capacities are really insufficient. Indeed, in my context, this router is connected in wire to an ADSL box having the DHCP activated. Well, except for a multi-wan operation, it is not seen by the box (its gateway to the box is deactivated and I did not find a solution to activate it neither by the administration GUI nor by command line configuration -ssh or telnet- forbidden by the router). Direct consequence: impossible to route the flows initiated by the box network (192.168.1.0) to the router internal network (192.168.0.0). To get around this limitation, you have to connect to the box's network all the peripherals that you want to share between the 2 networks.
Simple to use and a rather pleasant web interface. It allows dual-band but above all: it picks up signals very well, I manage to pick up 4G at home with it when I am normally on the borderline with 3G+.
My only regret is the lack of settings for the WIFI activation/deactivation schedule and the possibility of managing quotas for connected devices. Indeed, when you have only this means of Internet access like me, the traffic is capped and this setting becomes essential. And it's good to be able to cut the WIFI at night without doing it systematically in manual ...
The router software is quite simple to use.
With my Bouygue sim, (no other 4G antenna in my area).
56mbits without obstacle in front of the router, otherwise I am around 40mbits, but in any case much better than my ADSL network at 2mbits!
waiting impatiently for the fibre.
I can connect via Wifi or wireline, and the speed is about the same.
I've tested and tried with a 4G SFR and Free chip
The speed varies a lot depending on its position, the best is to add external 4G antennas and connect them to it (which I will test soon)
I'm not sure how to configure the 4G cards automatically, so you have to use manual configuration and play with the DNS.
I've managed to configure the connection of the 2 networks, my current box on the dedicated RJ45 and the 4G on the other, but it's impossible to add the two, either connected to one or the other, so it's probably a DNS IP configuration problem...
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but I'm sure it's a good idea.
