Tenda Router 5G NR LTE - AX1800 Router WiFi 6 with Gigabit LAN/WAN Port, 4G/5G or Wired Connection, Portable Mobile Router, Nano Sim Card, Pulg and Play, 5G03

If you’re looking for a high-performance 5G router that delivers speed, reliability, and future-proof Wi-Fi 6 technology, the Tenda 5G03 is an absolute premium features at a competitive price, making it one of the best investments I’ve made for my home network.

I took a risk as there were no reviews to look at for this specific device (5G SIM Card Router), but drastically unimpressed with the device that arrived, and my expectations were low... My friend came over to help set it up, I'm okay with networking, but he has experience, and it was my first try with a SIM router. 1. Most importantly, signal strength was tested in four locations in the home where my phone was saying signal was strongest, I tried 4 different SIM cards (Vodafone, ID, Smarty and O2) and not one of them went above 15mbps down and 3mbps up. Whilst I wasn't expecting 5G, I don't live in a 5G area, but I expected the antenna to beat my phone which was able to pick up 40mbps on 4G in the same spot. 2. The device was seriously light, I have looked at a friend's Huawei 5G Pro 2 alternative and that weighs way more than this, I suspect Tenda put all their effort into its looks & they cut cost on the internals. Given the weak signal, light weight, etc, etc, this is a small array of weak antenna and some very basic processing power. I can't stress enough how weird it is picking it up, given its external dimensions, and feeling such little weight... 3. Changing out SIM cards was a pain as there is no recess to help you push the Nano SIM in before it pops back out. I used the SIM tray of my phone to push the edge just enough for the spring to activate and eject the SIM each time. 4. Price is seriously tone-deaf, considering the poor performance, £300+ is frankly ludicrous. Again, my friend showed me a little Netgear mobile hotspot which he says was around £250'ish when he bought it several years ago, and that had better reception and Wi-Fi performance than this device. Using that little Netgear in my home, he swapped between the same 4 SIMs and each were pulling in excess of 50mbps apart from O2 which fell behind to 28mbps. Ultimately, I hope this helps someone, I have been looking at these for months and took the plunge on Prime Day, I now wish I had spent the money on a competitor that's a little bit older, but has considerably better reviews. Oh, and my friend knew on the first SIM when it pulled just under 7mbps that this was a non-starter.

Tenda Router 5G NR LTE, AX1800 WiFi 6 Router, is my first 5G router. First boiling 0-10 clear 10 works great, I have a Smarty Mobile card. Before purchasing this router, I tested the 5G coverage and it is good. the router does not lose the signal. I recommend

I've been running this in a house in France for about two months now and am very impressed. It replaces an ADSL line and so for Euro 20 pcm I get about 450 Mbps down and 200 up. The ADSL and phone line cost about 50e pcm and gave me 4 Mbps down and <1 Mbps up, so no contest. 5G really is a game changer for wireless broadband. In France (but not, sadly, UK) it has been rolled out almost everywhere, even small villages. I also run a Wireguard VPN over the link back to our office and this has been very stable and reliable. 5G setup can be fine tuned to the various 5G carrier frequencies but basically it works out of the box with a suitable sim. ( 'Free' 300GB pcm in my case.)

This review may be a little unfair as I simply couldn't get my Vodaphone 5g data sim to work. However product quality seemed reasonable. don't be deterred by this review as I've used lots of Tenda products in the past and I've been delighted with them. I did buy the following day through Amazon a TP-Link X-50 5G router put the sim in and simply worked.

Sim slot is not working