Brill review, thank you. I purchased a TP Link 4G Router TL-MR6500v which includes phoning capabilities on this model. It's been a game changer for my household, as well as my parents who live in the countryside. Before buying this, our family (as with most people) had been with BT for their phone calls and internet for many, many years. We were paying through the nose for abysmal, snail speeds for our internet, and the quality of our landline calls were poor and crackly. It also didn't help that working plant at a nearby sawmill would haul down our phone line maybe once or twice a year! To top it all off were we're paying through the nose for a sub-standard service for years. I didn't even know 4G Routers were a thing until two years ago! It was just chance I Googled it, thinking "if I can get 4G internet on my phone, then why not for my home computer?" And up popped TP Links selection of 4G Routers! Never looked back! It's been a game changer for my parents. They now have excellent internet connectivity for surfing, streaming, video calls etc, whereas before with their landline, loading a photo of a loaf of bread was near impossible :/ They also receive their home phone calls through this router too, axed their physical landline. The quality of the phone calls are superb. Bought a Smarty Unlimited SIM for £20 p/m, can't beat it. Also bought an external MIMO antenna which has helped boost our connection to our local phone mast too. Moving to a 4G Router and axing BT entirely has literally cut our Internet and Phone bills in half. And we now have incredible internet access and unlimited house phone calls without the addition of paying for line rental. Win-win! Never. Looked. Back!
Just to point out there are two types of CAT 6 , one refers to cabling type and the other refers to LTE bands, the difference between this and other routers is that it supports carrier aggregation, which can bundle multiple LTE bands for higher download/upload, this is currently supported by EE and Vodafone and also known as 4G+.
I just learned Cat 6 was used for 4G carrier aggregation yesterday. Pretty confusing, because first I was thinking of Cat6 ethernet, and then of Wifi 6 before I found out it was describing two carriers mimo LTE. And there are a buttload of other "Cat's" too. I think it will be easier to understand if it is named "LTE Cat 6" in the description.
NASCompares, your review is helping me out yet again. Thank you! I'm setting up a NAS and internet for my relative's boat, I'm going to try this as an LTE router. Doesn't break the bank as a marine LTE router would.
@@lit2021 It is, the wifi antenna is internal and those SMA's are for the LTE. This is actually amazing, because you can buy/install a proper 50ohm directional antenna.
Hi. Maybe my question sounds stupid but, does it have battery? I've seen on Amazon some of those TP-Link 4G routers have lithion battery slots. Thanks.
I bought the M1 Nighthawk some time ago. It was not a good purchase. It has almost no settings, in my case also very unstable. The usb port only works if the battery is pluged in, device becomes quite hot. Just bought a tp link mr600 now. Lets see if it is any better. The thing i liked about the M1 was the usb c power port, sadly the mr600 does not have usb c power port.
I should point out. THis router supports 4G+ (aka 4GEE (on EE), LTE-A, LTE-Advanced or 4.5G), for a theoretical 300Mbps, real world would be upto 60-70Mbps!
Thanks for a great review (what I know about routers you could write on the back of postage stamp!) Thanks again. Before I buy an TP link MR600 (V2) I need to find out if it will work on 3 BroadBand Mast in my area Wirral UK. Thanks Again for a good interesting review. 🙂
Great info and video. One question does the router serve as a load balancer, as well? If you have a sim card and Ethernet cable does it combine both signals, or just chooses the stronger one. Thanks.
That WAN port functionality is cool to have at that price point and the general consensus of having SIM backups are a good idea but sadly most high end routers don't have it
Hi there, If I use a 4G/5G sim card only with the MR600 router, will my download speed be up to 300 Mbps or 150 Mbps? unless I attach a Cat 6 cable? Just so you know, I plan to use it as a sim card router only (without ethernet cables). If 150 Mbps download speed without cat 6 cable still, as might as well get an MR400. Please advise. Thank you.
bought one of these from Amazon it was dead on arrival, bought a Huawei B535-245B instead and a smarty sim for £18.00 with unlimited data, without the outside aerial up today it has produced 67mbps down and 6mbps up. quite impressed for a mobile router with a month-to-month sim which doesn't tie you down to a particular network as the router is unlocked to all networks. I think I shall be staying with Smarty on 3 for a while its a heck of a lot cheaper than Sky or Virgin media. Sky is going up next month to £36.99, maybe time for a change. The outages on Sky forced me to move.
I bought this router and first day use sim adapter got trapped in sim port and bent pins, I thought no problem I'll swap out the mup c792-3 sim reader but can I hell find one.
I am thinking of getting this one, but carefully listened to what you said. My preferred network is O2/Giffgaff. I looked on Google for any reports not working in LE10. Another problem came up that O2 will not allow data from a router as it will be blocked. Any advice from anyone, please.
Just want to buy this but realised it does not have an RJ11 phone socket like some others do. I want to be able to phone out to a landline from the router via the internal sim card.My SIM card allows a set amount of data, unlimited calls to mobiles and landlines (I am in India) but all I can access is the text option or data transfer, so calls are lost.Is there any adapter I can buy, or a phone app that will allow me to use a wired standard phone with this ?Please bear in mind I have no idea on the techincal side of networks etc, just a basic answer would be great. Suggest Me please.
Hi, would this incrise my internet speek, currently using 300mbps sim card on phone with usb c cable to pc and getting +100mbps, unless when downloading games and stuff, it moght go to like 40mbps..
Hi All Can we use SIM card for internet and use 3 LAN ports to share internet connectivity with other devices which supports only RJ45 and doesn’t have wifi.
just ordered a smarty sim , now nervous whether it will work in this router. How can I definitely find out as me and technology are not meant to be together in the same room. Sending back the MR 200 AC750 as I think Ive made a mistake and now need to order the MR 600..
JV1V - all setup. The range covers the entire 2-floor house and conservatory extension. Best in mind the router is positioned on the top floor at the very front of the property in the window and the range extends downstairs all the way to the conservatory. It’s likely it goes further but I haven’t been outside :) to put it another way, it’s better than the routers provided by Virgin Media!
JV1V - I would say it’s possible. Maybe need to point the antenna in the rough direction. Obviously it’ll depend on any interference, objects in the way etc.
at the end of the video it is said that 3 network might work or not in certain areas due to the bandwidth ?.......what does that mean? 3 network supports certain 4G LTE CATEGORIES in one area but not in the other? e.g. LTE 7-8 900-2600 MHz respectively....?
Curious on what speeds your getting from this. I'm with three but have heard these arent compatible with that ISP. What would your recommended alternative be? Thanks
Nice unit, but does not detect a US TMoblie sim card, & also doesn't have the option to select a different band. If it were able to connect multiple bands, the chances of connecting to more then one SIM card would be greater.
Just happy it has 4G+ I get 120mb down and 20mb up in my area. Beats broadband providers on a Three contract for uncapped unlimited data £20 a month lol
@@rayanr.574 in my experience it wasn't that great. Found out the Three mobile network repurposed a 3G signal band (1480Mhz - band 32) to create their LTE-A signal. This router doesn't support band 32 so I was only getting a maximum of 36mb instead of the 100mb my phone gets. The online gameplay wasn't bad, i didn't notice anymore lag than on wired broadband but downloading games with that speed is soul destroying. Could be a different story if it was a different network like EE.
@@XcaliburReborn i live in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Internet is quite good in my area with my corrent router 4G+ i get 10MB but when using the sim in my phone i get 75-100mb the problem with my router is that it's old i have it since 2015 i mean technology advanced since that time. Even my gaming experience is pure garbage my ping is always above 75. Sooo idk
Should i go for this? Bcoz i facing internet fluctuations (wifi disconnection) problem in my one month old tp link tlmr6400... Does this problem occur in this model too? Or this is just the network issue rather than device issues?
Looking to use this as my house wifi with a Vodafone unlimited sim. Will need to only run a couple of phones, iPad and mainly a smart tv. Do you guys thing this will do the job?
Actually, it is not true. There is a plan to add this feature -- to select 4G band manually to the LTE router already, but it will take a certain time to release a new firmware; that is why we mentioned that this router cannot satisfy your needs yet, but we hope there will be a chance to make you access internet with TP-Link product in the near future after added the new features.
Thank you for working on this because it is very important! We need to optimise our antenna for our local base station, so knowing the router's preferred band is very important! Also is an opportunity to make TP Link router look most professional, with LTE statistics.
You didn't tell us it's crap. 100% signal, line of sight to mask 300 meter (or less) yet speeds less than half my mobile with same sim (usb to pc). gs9+ 3mobile
Nas Compares you just LIED you can only connect to a iPhone with Wifi is a LIE you can Also Connect Wired Via USB as Well I have done so quit Lying to us
I think he was refering to CAT5/5e/6 network connections... can you plug your printer/TV into your iPhone via network cable? No. So its no use in this situation where as this device is.
@@NRTuf it has a double Nat type and it’s on stricted so good for everything else not the best for gaming unless someone has found a way to sort the Nat type out
@@cameronfletcher3589 i tryed it, it works for fortnite after 2 games it crashes you out then you have to try re log back in.. I managed to get on dual net 20ping less then a usually get, but because of the reason it crashes and makes you re log in i coukdnt be stuffed using that feature, if they come up with a way to make it work i think it changes your ping and nat type and thats what makes it trip out.
Brill review, thank you.
I purchased a TP Link 4G Router TL-MR6500v which includes phoning capabilities on this model. It's been a game changer for my household, as well as my parents who live in the countryside. Before buying this, our family (as with most people) had been with BT for their phone calls and internet for many, many years. We were paying through the nose for abysmal, snail speeds for our internet, and the quality of our landline calls were poor and crackly. It also didn't help that working plant at a nearby sawmill would haul down our phone line maybe once or twice a year! To top it all off were we're paying through the nose for a sub-standard service for years.
I didn't even know 4G Routers were a thing until two years ago! It was just chance I Googled it, thinking "if I can get 4G internet on my phone, then why not for my home computer?" And up popped TP Links selection of 4G Routers! Never looked back!
It's been a game changer for my parents. They now have excellent internet connectivity for surfing, streaming, video calls etc, whereas before with their landline, loading a photo of a loaf of bread was near impossible :/ They also receive their home phone calls through this router too, axed their physical landline. The quality of the phone calls are superb. Bought a Smarty Unlimited SIM for £20 p/m, can't beat it. Also bought an external MIMO antenna which has helped boost our connection to our local phone mast too.
Moving to a 4G Router and axing BT entirely has literally cut our Internet and Phone bills in half. And we now have incredible internet access and unlimited house phone calls without the addition of paying for line rental. Win-win!
Never. Looked. Back!
This channel is promising. I will not be surprised if this channel will succeed.
Just to point out there are two types of CAT 6 , one refers to cabling type and the other refers to LTE bands, the difference between this and other routers is that it supports carrier aggregation, which can bundle multiple LTE bands for higher download/upload, this is currently supported by EE and Vodafone and also known as 4G+.
I just learned Cat 6 was used for 4G carrier aggregation yesterday. Pretty confusing, because first I was thinking of Cat6 ethernet, and then of Wifi 6 before I found out it was describing two carriers mimo LTE. And there are a buttload of other "Cat's" too. I think it will be easier to understand if it is named "LTE Cat 6" in the description.
NASCompares, your review is helping me out yet again. Thank you!
I'm setting up a NAS and internet for my relative's boat, I'm going to try this as an LTE router. Doesn't break the bank as a marine LTE router would.
The 2 antennas are not for WiFi, rather it’s for reception of your mobile service provider’s LTE 4G+ signal
I hope so, I'm about to purchase this router and really hope it has good reception.
@@lit2021 It is, the wifi antenna is internal and those SMA's are for the LTE. This is actually amazing, because you can buy/install a proper 50ohm directional antenna.
Great review. Look fwd to the software review. Nice background and Casio Databank 🤓 👍🏽
There are quite a few technical inaccuracies in the video having read up on the specs.
Unlike a rising trend in youtubers, you know the difference between Mb/s and MB/s ;)
you checked the 3 boxes alright. awesome review
Hi. Maybe my question sounds stupid but, does it have battery? I've seen on Amazon some of those TP-Link 4G routers have lithion battery slots. Thanks.
I bought the M1 Nighthawk some time ago. It was not a good purchase. It has almost no settings, in my case also very unstable. The usb port only works if the battery is pluged in, device becomes quite hot. Just bought a tp link mr600 now. Lets see if it is any better.
The thing i liked about the M1 was the usb c power port, sadly the mr600 does not have usb c power port.
I should point out. THis router supports 4G+ (aka 4GEE (on EE), LTE-A, LTE-Advanced or 4.5G), for a theoretical 300Mbps, real world would be upto 60-70Mbps!
That what I'm looking for, honest people :)
Thank U
does it work with 5G sim in future ?
Great vid thanks. What do U prefer the M1 or MR600?
Thanks for the review. Just found the sound levels too low - might want to do something about that.
The router discconects from the network regualrly. After two hours trouble shooting no wiser as to why. Any ideas?
Thanks for a great review (what I know about routers you could write on the back of postage stamp!) Thanks again. Before I buy an TP link MR600 (V2) I need to find out if it will work on 3 BroadBand Mast in my area Wirral UK. Thanks Again for a good interesting review. 🙂
Great info and video. One question does the router serve as a load balancer, as well? If you have a sim card and Ethernet cable does it combine both signals, or just chooses the stronger one. Thanks.
Usually routers like these will have priority on the broadband you select in the settings. If that fails, it will switch to the second source.
That WAN port functionality is cool to have at that price point and the general consensus of having SIM backups are a good idea but sadly most high end routers don't have it
Hi there, If I use a 4G/5G sim card only with the MR600 router, will my download speed be up to 300 Mbps or 150 Mbps? unless I attach a Cat 6 cable? Just so you know, I plan to use it as a sim card router only (without ethernet cables). If 150 Mbps download speed without cat 6 cable still, as might as well get an MR400. Please advise. Thank you.
Hey, I am about to get 3 unlimited in Sweden and I don’t know what you mean about coverage? Does it gonna work in my area?
bought one of these from Amazon it was dead on arrival, bought a Huawei B535-245B instead and a smarty sim for £18.00 with unlimited data, without the outside aerial up today it has produced 67mbps down and 6mbps up. quite impressed for a mobile router with a month-to-month sim which doesn't tie you down to a particular network as the router is unlocked to all networks. I think I shall be staying with Smarty on 3 for a while its a heck of a lot cheaper than Sky or Virgin media. Sky is going up next month to £36.99, maybe time for a change. The outages on Sky forced me to move.
how far away from it can you stand with good speeds?
I bought this router and first day use sim adapter got trapped in sim port and bent pins, I thought no problem I'll swap out the mup c792-3 sim reader but can I hell find one.
Hi I currently use Virgin media Broadband and have speeds of supposedly 200Mbps what would you recommend for a 4G router and plan?
I am thinking of getting this one, but carefully listened to what you said. My preferred network is O2/Giffgaff. I looked on Google for any reports not working in LE10. Another problem came up that O2 will not allow data from a router as it will be blocked. Any advice from anyone, please.
Just want to buy this but realised it does not have an RJ11 phone socket like some others do. I want to be able to phone out to a landline from the router via the internal sim card.My SIM card allows a set amount of data, unlimited calls to mobiles and landlines (I am in India) but all I can access is the text option or data transfer, so calls are lost.Is there any adapter I can buy, or a phone app that will allow me to use a wired standard phone with this ?Please bear in mind I have no idea on the techincal side of networks etc, just a basic answer would be great. Suggest Me please.
Hi, would this incrise my internet speek, currently using 300mbps sim card on phone with usb c cable to pc and getting +100mbps, unless when downloading games and stuff, it moght go to like 40mbps..
Hi All
Can we use SIM card for internet and use 3 LAN ports to share internet connectivity with other devices which supports only RJ45 and doesn’t have wifi.
Yes you can using LAN ports.
Is there 2 models of this MR600 router because the router featured on Amazon is pictured without the center silver stand?
Yes there is v1 and v2
just ordered a smarty sim , now nervous whether it will work in this router. How can I definitely find out as me and technology are not meant to be together in the same room. Sending back the MR 200 AC750 as I think Ive made a mistake and now need to order the MR 600..
@michealmchenry353 Any progress / issues you could report back on this?
Still waiting for comparison
Thank you for this great review🙏🏻
My question is speed can make data run of out data?
Brilliant helpful review .. thank you.
Just ordered mine from Ebuyer for £127. Not too bad of a price and sounds like a good bit of kit. Going to pop an unlimited Smarty SIM in, £18/m.
TheJackah have you setup your MR600? I’m interested to know what the wifi range is. No one seems to address this aspect of it or other mobile routers.
JV1V - all setup. The range covers the entire 2-floor house and conservatory extension. Best in mind the router is positioned on the top floor at the very front of the property in the window and the range extends downstairs all the way to the conservatory. It’s likely it goes further but I haven’t been outside :) to put it another way, it’s better than the routers provided by Virgin Media!
TheJackah - thanks mate! Would you get coverage of at least 20m (65ft) from the router on the same floor at the router?
JV1V - I would say it’s possible. Maybe need to point the antenna in the rough direction. Obviously it’ll depend on any interference, objects in the way etc.
JV1V - I’d think so. I did a test today. Went down the street and I had 2 signal bars before it cut off completely. This was about 4 houses down.
at the end of the video it is said that 3 network might work or not in certain areas due to the bandwidth ?.......what does that mean? 3 network supports certain 4G LTE CATEGORIES in one area but not in the other? e.g. LTE 7-8 900-2600 MHz respectively....?
Love you the way you explained bro.
Does it support 5g sim card
Curious on what speeds your getting from this. I'm with three but have heard these arent compatible with that ISP. What would your recommended alternative be? Thanks
Is this better than Asus 4G AC68U
Can you check if it will work on Lithuania using a pildyk sim card. Thank you so much
Nice unit, but does not detect a US TMoblie sim card, & also doesn't have the option to select a different band. If it were able to connect multiple bands, the chances of connecting to more then one SIM card would be greater.
How is it going so far?
Love the way you explained, can you do comparison with any other brand as well. 😊
Can I buy this and leave it at my Europe an house and buy a data sim
Will such a router work with a LTE sim card or is it only for 4G?
Works with LTE card, but uses 4G then. I use it in this exact configuration, because 5G routers are expensive
Just happy it has 4G+ I get 120mb down and 20mb up in my area. Beats broadband providers on a Three contract for uncapped unlimited data £20 a month lol
How is it for gaming?
@@rayanr.574 in my experience it wasn't that great. Found out the Three mobile network repurposed a 3G signal band (1480Mhz - band 32) to create their LTE-A signal. This router doesn't support band 32 so I was only getting a maximum of 36mb instead of the 100mb my phone gets. The online gameplay wasn't bad, i didn't notice anymore lag than on wired broadband but downloading games with that speed is soul destroying.
Could be a different story if it was a different network like EE.
@@XcaliburReborn i live in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Internet is quite good in my area with my corrent router 4G+ i get 10MB but when using the sim in my phone i get 75-100mb the problem with my router is that it's old i have it since 2015 i mean technology advanced since that time. Even my gaming experience is pure garbage my ping is always above 75. Sooo idk
which one would you choose between huawei b525 or the archer mr600??
I've had Huawei router and its been nothing but problems.
@@roddyross5531 ok, same here, wifi super shit, and have to keep restarting router for full speeds
Can I change DNS in this router?
Should i go for this?
Bcoz i facing internet fluctuations (wifi disconnection) problem in my one month old tp link tlmr6400...
Does this problem occur in this model too? Or this is just the network issue rather than device issues?
Looking to use this as my house wifi with a Vodafone unlimited sim. Will need to only run a couple of phones, iPad and mainly a smart tv. Do you guys thing this will do the job?
using this router with onemesh supported repeaters in my home. Its my main network now and working very well
@@AvinashGA how is it for gaming?
@@rayanr.574 did u ever find out how good it is for gaming cause that is what I want it for but not sure if this is gonna be good enough????
@@cameronfletcher3589 same thing i don't want to hesitate to buy it. I need to make sure
@@rayanr.574 I bought it anyway and it comes on Friday so I will let u know how it goes.
What's the WiFi range like on this?
How about 5g sim card is it compatible?
Can it be optic router thanks
can you recommend other brands that can do the same for less the price? (most probably less performance)
Actually, it is not true. There is a plan to add this feature -- to select 4G band manually to the LTE router already, but it will take a certain time to release a new firmware; that is why we mentioned that this router cannot satisfy your needs yet, but we hope there will be a chance to make you access internet with TP-Link product in the near future after added the new features.
Thank you for working on this because it is very important! We need to optimise our antenna for our local base station, so knowing the router's preferred band is very important! Also is an opportunity to make TP Link router look most professional, with LTE statistics.
Will it work on att
this device is compatible for parabolic antenna?
Yes with SMA connector.
Nice. Kindly perform manual carrier aggregation. Ty
(There seems to be difference in Cat in US and in Europe for the specific same routers.. just to let u know all)
You didn't tell us it's crap. 100% signal, line of sight to mask 300 meter (or less) yet speeds less than half my mobile with same sim (usb to pc). gs9+ 3mobile
Thanks
Nas Compares you just LIED you can only connect to a iPhone with Wifi is a LIE you can Also Connect Wired Via USB as Well I have done so quit Lying to us
I think he was refering to CAT5/5e/6 network connections... can you plug your printer/TV into your iPhone via network cable? No. So its no use in this situation where as this device is.
this is not a review..
Anyone tried it for gaming.
Thats what i want to find out ?
Did u find out ??
@@NRTuf it has a double Nat type and it’s on stricted so good for everything else not the best for gaming unless someone has found a way to sort the Nat type out
@@cameronfletcher3589 i tryed it, it works for fortnite after 2 games it crashes you out then you have to try re log back in..
I managed to get on dual net 20ping less then a usually get, but because of the reason it crashes and makes you re log in i coukdnt be stuffed using that feature, if they come up with a way to make it work i think it changes your ping and nat type and thats what makes it trip out.
Oh god get to the details and stop waffling on
Get to the point man, you talk way yo much of nothing!!!