ZTE MU5120 – the most powerful portable 5G WiFi hotspot, huge 10000mAh battery, 18W reverse charge, NFC, 2.4” touch screen, connects 64 devices – Sim Slot UNLOCKED

Got this router as it generally had good reviews and I knew 3 network were using them. I put my EE sim in and worked well with smart TV perfect solution for a WiFi network with no line into house.

Good product. Works as described

After trying a £600 5G router and finding it lacking for the money this little U50 5G router does the trick. I have a pre paid EE data sim and took it out of my existing 4G router and put it in this one. Other than changing passwords and the WiFi details no other real configuration was needed.So far so good.

This product does not come with an antenna of any sort.Testing it around the house (in East London, UK), I found that it only picked up 4G and gave a very disappointing 5Mbps download speed. I tested it out in the street, and that is when it picked up 5G and the speed shot up to 450Mps! Yes, a nearly ten fold download speed increase! So as it comes out of the box, you just will not not know how good your signal reception will be. HOWEVER...THE SOLUTION IS buying a cheap pair of flexible antennas with TS9 plugs. When I did that the speed went up to a healthy and consistent 30-40Mbps indoors. I was so pleased that I got that higher rate, that I have just bought a more expensive LTE type of aerial that is specifically designed to pick up 5G as well as 4G. I am expecting great things with that new dual-aerial antenna.So the bottom line is, it may only work well for you if also buy an additional LTE-type antenna or pair of LTE aerials. Remember that the two connectors must be the tiny TS9 type of plug (2.5mm diameter).

I've been looking to upgrade our motorhome Wi-Fi for a while. I've previously used both Huawei and LTE 4G Mobile Hotspots but with 5G now rolling out more widely I wanted to take advantage of the higher data transmission speeds especially for streaming video. This unit is the first one I've found that is reasonably affordable. It's much bigger (and heavier) than my old Huawei 5577 4G hotspot but this is a good thing as it provides space for a much larger internal antenna and a larger battery. Reception and signal strength seem much improved over the older 4G units. So far, I've had no problems getting a good signal in our motorhome using one of two positions in the van; either by the habitation door or on the dashboard. The ZTE U50 supports external antennas so I might get one to use in poorer signal areas. I'm using an existing EE data SIM but my unit was delivered with a Smarty Data SIM so you have everything you need to get up and running with mobile data. It recognised the EE SIM and auto-configured so I was up and running in under a minute. It charges via USB-C and battery life is excellent; around 10 hours. One thing to note - it goes in to sleep mode if nothing is connected to it and you have to wake it up (with a short press of the power button) in order to re-connect. It doesn't seem to get too warm in use either. Highly recommended.

The experience was WOW at the beginning with speeds reaching 130+mbps. I was surprised. Fast forward 3 months and it frequently drops to levels of 0.5mbps when you are seated just next to the router and with the router in the same location as when I got 130+mbps. Frequently disconnects - Highly unreliable for remote work, and will DEFINITELY let you down. Avoid this at any cost. I did not have any access for wired internet. I regret spending 180 bucks on this.

This is a review for the ZTE 5G CPE MC888.I live in the country and we have terrible wired internet, and no fibre broadband available here. 4G coverage is excellent, so we've been using '4G broadband' for a few years now, via a Huawei mifi device and a SMARTY card. We ended up needing two cards/devices as our walls are thick and the signal wasn't getting through. Wanted to get rid of having two devices, and use a better router with a mesh system......I did LOADS of research before getting this!! I'd tried a cheaper Archer MR 600 CAT6 4G device first, which just got very hot, kept dropping out and was disappointing! Sent it back, did more research and came up with this.I'm using a SMARTY card in it, and I'm on the edge of a 5G network, so thought I'd get the 5G capability, even if we can't get 5G just yet. As I thought, I'm only getting 4G, BUT the speeds I'm getting are still amazing compared to the old wired BT internet, and to the SMARTY card used in the mifi device. Setting up the device was easy. It works best in a very specific spot on a window sill in the living room. I moved it all over the house to see if anywhere else was better: upstairs was worse strangely.Bought a set of three Deco mesh hubs (TP-link Deco X10 AX1500, £144.99 on Amazon), as on its own the ZTE couldn't get through our very thick walls. The set up works perfectly. The first Deco hub connects to the ZTE router directly, and becomes Hub number 1 (hidden under an old 50's radio's shell in the photo!) which then sends the signal to the other Deco hubs. I now have a brilliant signal all over the house, with two Decos, and one extra one which we only use when people stay in the Granny annex.We've had this set up for a couple of months now, and we only lost signal once, when it was chucking it down with rain/stormy. We've had bad weather since then, and all has been well. Copes with three devices at once streaming films with no problem. No problems with Teams meetings for work, with lots of people on the meeting, and sharing presentations etc.It's fairly pricey (£212.49 when I bought it), but so far this has been money well spent.

It's quite buggy - the LAN devices and the WiFi devices cannot detect each other - if you are not a developer with advance use case it's probably fine