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

This is a great gadget. We bought it because we have a house in Greece and need reliable and affordable WiFi. We tried it out in London using a Three data sim card and it was hopeless. For our area, apparently Vodafone gives a much better result than Three. Then we took it to Greece and used a Cosmote data only Sim card. We had tried the Vodafone sim card there last year and it was no use in our area. But with a Cosmote data sim card, the speed was excellent, in fact achieving better speeds than using the full fibre broadband we are used to in London from Virgin. If you can get a sim card with strong coverage for the area you live, this MiFi gives excellent, reliable WiFi 24 hours hours a day, 7 days a week.

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.

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.

You need to change the Network Selection from 5G/4G/3G to 5G NSA ......otherwise you wont get a connection

Do not buy! Very good at the beginning, absolutely useless in a few months when connection starts to drop frequently.No response or support from seller.I purchased a ZTE 5G CPE MC888 router 10 months ago. Around 5 months ago, it began experiencing connection drops, and over time, the issue has worsened. Initially, I thought it was due to problems with my network provider, but after testing several SIM cards from different providers, I determined that the router itself is the problem. The same SIM card works well on an iPhone and provides similar speeds without connection drops, but on the router, drops are frequent. It is impossible to rely on it, and no point in keeping it.Just a money waste…

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.

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.