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Huawei E5180 4G LTE Cube Review

The Huawei E5180 is a 4G router with a nice look. Working with a 4G sim card, the Huawei E5180 could provide wireless network for home or office, and it can easily replace an ADSL box when you have a deplorable throughput.

The Huawei E5180 is an unlocked 4G router that user can use with any 4G SIM card in European and African countries. Like all these 4G routers, simply put the SIM card in, start it, connect to the web interface with the information displayed under the router and you start a connection in minutes.

Comparing with the 3G router such as Huawei B683, it is more powerful but comparing with the other 4G routers, it may not be the best. Based on the functions, Huawei E5180 works perfectly if you do not have an internet to use. The only important point to note with these devices is that it is necessary to find the ideal location to have a good flow. We had tested it on many devices that they provide different data rates at different location. You may find the best one to use the Huawei E5180 router.

Technical Specifications

Dimensions: 70mm wide, 110mm height, 70mm depth

Weight: 250 grams

Supported LTE category 4

Supported frequencies FDD 800/900/1800/2100/2600 MHz and TDD 2600MHz

1 RJ45 female (fast Ethernet), 1 RJ11 female, WIFI N 300Mbps

2 CRC-9 ports to connect an external antenna available on the left side

SIM Card Type: micro sim

Some more info

You have two LED indicators on the front. The top one lets you know the quality of the received signal.

blue: signal is strong
yellow: Signal is weak
red: No signal

To use the router quickly, just insert the micro sim card into the router, plug it in and wait a few moments. Using the RJ45 cable, connect the router to your PC. You can also connect wifi to your router by looking underneath it! A label includes the SSID (name of the wifi network of the router) and WIFI KEY (the password to access this network). In a web browser, type the address http://192.168.1.1/ You will then access the interface to configure the router. The username and password are both admin.

External Antenna

If you want to have the best possible reception especially if you are very far from the cell tower, you can connect an external antenna to this E5180 router. The ideal antenna is obviously an outdoor LTE antenna, which has two connectors and when installing the antenna, make sure it pointing to the 4G cell tower, the cable entering your roof and going down into the room. We had one tested outdoor external LTE antenna, which can work well with the Huawei E5180 to get much better signal and surfing speed.

Conclusion

The Huawei E5180 4G router does the job perfectly. Capturing much better 4G than a mobile phone, it allows you to replace a box at the ASDL. The download speed on LTE reachs 150Mbps and upload speed to 50mbps. And the price of Huawei E5180 is not expensive since it’s available for long time in the market. Even though there are many 4G routers in the market, the functions of Huawei E5180 are enough for most cases.

HUAWEI B683 3G Router Setup Guide for Network Connection

Huawei B683 Setup Introduction

This guide explains how to setup your HUAWEI B683 3G router with the ability to share the Internet connection among multiple computers. Once you have completed the instructions, the router can log onto the internet and you will be able to connect your computers wirelessly to the router.

Select the following:

User Name: admin

Password: admin

Click on “Login”.

Enter your PIN, click “Connection” in the control panel’s left side

Enter the PIN code, which is printed on the plastic card where the SIM card was sitting. The “Save PIN Code” can advantageously be selected, otherwise you need to log in to your router’s control panel and enter the PIN code every time if the router has been disconnected.

Not all models support this feature. In this case, you can disable the PIN code on the SIM card (see description further along in the manual). Click “Apply”.

Set up the Internet connection and the internal wireless network

Click on the “Settings” at the top.
Click on the “Quick Setup” in the control panel’s left side.

Click the “Next” button to start the setup wizard.

Verify the following:
Profile Name: B683
Dial-up Number: *99 #
User Name: <efterlades blank>
Password: <efterlades blank>
APN: Check to your SIM card provider and enter the APN here
IP Address: <Dynamic>

Click on the “Next” button.

(1) APN = Access Point Name Depending on which APN you choose, you have different visibility (IP address and ports available) compared to the rest of the Internet.

Other settings:
Authentication: CHAP+PAP
Connection Mode: Auto
Under Connection Mode can be selected “Manual”. With this option, you must log into the router’s control panel and connect the connection each time if the router has been disconnected.

Click on the “Next” button.

Select the following:

Name (SSID): The name of the B683 router’s wireless local area networks (2)
SSID Broadcast: Enabled (3)

Click on the “Next” button.

(2) To be selected on all the computers that will be connected to the Huawei B683 wirelessly.
(3) The B683 is visible in a radius up to 100 meters.

Select the following:

Encryption Mode: WPA2-PSK
WPA Encryption: AES + TKIP
WPA Pre-Shared Key: code of your choice (4)

Click on the “Next” button.

Review your selections and exit the wizard by clicking “Finish”.

The router now connects to the Internet and you can continue the installation on your computers with wired (LAN) or wireless (WLAN).

(4) Wireless key must be entered on each computer and then connect to the router wirelessly.

Changing the WiFi code of HUAWEI B683

To change the WiFi code on your HUAWEI B683, start by opening your internet browser, you can uses Internet Explorer to show how to do.

Step 1: Enter “http://192.168.1.1” in the address field

Step 2: Login and enter “admin” into the password

Step 3: Locate the “Settings”

Step 4: Find “WLAN” and “WLAN Basic Settings”

Step 5: In the “WPA Pre-Shared Key”, enter your new personal code and press “Save Settings” at the bottom

Should You Buy Huawei B683 or Huawei B593?

These days, we found some customers are in trouble of how to Choose the wireless router between Huawei B683 and B593?

Frankly speaking, it’s a good question for those users who are committed to Huawei brand. Based on reliable quality and performance in network connection, Huawei routers had crashed to CISCO WLAN routers to some extent.

Then how to determine which router among Huawei routers? Take Huawei B683 and B593 as example, which one is better? For most users who want to buy router, the question should be “which one is appropriate?”

To answer “which one is better” is easy; Huawei B593 is 4G LTE CPE which supports maximum download speed up to 100 Mbps and 50Mbps at uplink. With latest new technology, users could surf at revolutionary speed without latency. The two MIMO antennas can help B593 to reach the fastest possible speed.

However, Huawei B683 3G Wireless Router could only run on 3G UMTS and 2G network, it can’t work with 4G LTE network. And the maximum speed could reach only 28.8Mbps, which is only a quarter of speed from B593. There is only one external antenna connector on Huawei B683. So there is no doubt that Huawei B593 is much better than Huawei B683.

But should you buy Huawei B593 rather than Huawei B683？As the professional consult in wireless solution, the writer suggests users should have a second thought and the decision depends.

If you buy the router for SOHO, home or office, in most of cases, Huawei B683 is enough to support the Internet activities based on the current 3G network. According to the practical test for 4G LTE CPE HUAWEI B593, the peak speed can’t reach 35Mbps with good network environment under LTE network. And to use new 4G service, the service fee is not at the similar price as 3G.

There is no doubt that HUAWEI B593 LTE CPE would finally replace HUAWEI B683 Wireless Router. From a long-term point of view, 4G LTE network will become common. Since the LTE is just at the beginning, for the users concerning about the cost, HUAWEI B683 would be appropriate for current usage.

If you need router for the wireless network solution in a project, concerning the future network upgrade and function is more important than cost, HUAWEI B593 LTE CPE should be the first option. This LTE CPE B593 is born to meet the industrial applications after time and time test.

Above is my opinion for user’s reference, if you need them, you could check the site www.4gltemall.com for unlocked routers.

Huawei B970B 3G HSDPA 7.2Mbps Wireless Router Review

The Huawei E970B 3G wireless router is currently the most high-end product for Internet access via UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, EDGE and GPRS. Whether at home or in the office, the 3G WiFi Router HUAWEI B970b will provide you with a reliable Internet connection, through which you can access either via cable or via WLAN. Insert your SIM card in the box, configure the box comfortably with your internet browser – and you’re on the Internet!

The huawei b970b can be used for all networks.

It supports the following data transfer methods:

– HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbit/s – fast download

– HSUPA up to 5.6 Mbit/s – faster upload

– WCDMA up to 384 kbit/s

– EDGE to 220 kbit/s

– GPRS up to 53 kbit/s

Huawei B970B 3G HSDPA 7.2Mbps Wireless Router Review

Conjunction with the PC: either via WiFi or LAN cable

Antenna connection available – suitable antennas can be found in our shop

Scope of supply:

– HUAWEI B970b wireless router, different labels, B-stock (damaged packaging unit in perfect order)

– Power Supply

– manual

Here now there is new upgraded version HUAWEI B683 3G HSPA+ 28.8Mbps Wireless router available. With the upgrade to support 28.8Mbps download speed, it could also support 32 users to access internet. What’s more, there is USB slot in HUAWEI B683, which is for USB storage flash card, the user connected to the WiFi signal could share the files in the storage.

HUAWEI B683 3G Wireless Router Test and Review

Mobile Internet, which was synonymous with luxury – until recently it is now a very common and convenient way to access the global network and to surf internet. Continuously falling prices of the service make more and more people choose to use mobile or wireless network. Following the wake of growing demand for mobile internet devices, manufacturers are trying to create mobile broadband to maximize the easier and more enjoyable communication for us.

One of these manufacturers is Chinese company Huawei, which launched the HUAWEI B683 3G WiFi router. It could connects to 3G mobile network via LAN or SIM card based on HSPA + standard.

General Review

Huawei B683 3G Wirelss Router stands out from the “crowd” of other routers, its unusual, modern design. The outside plastic is used in glossy casing (so-called “piano”), which unfortunately can be seen virtually every fingerprint. If clean it up, it looks very shining.

At the top of the unit is the Dial-up (used to connect to the Internet) button, the side is the ports for connections in the router (external antenna, connect the telephone line, power supply, USB port, four-port LAN 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45)).

At the front of the router there are two buttons – on / off switch and a button Wi-Fi/WPS (for creating wireless Wi-Fi networks).

Behind the rear panel is reset button (used to restore the factory settings) and pendants, based on which we can put HUAWEI B683 stand like a wall. In this back, you will also find housing flap, concealed SIM slot grille.

The discrete icons on HUAWEI B683 3G WiFi Router informs us connection status, the icons are located around the dial-up button. The lights of the icons will keeping on when the B683 is working, so they could show us below the information clearly, even in a dark room:

* Using the USB port

* Wi-Fi/WPS active network

* Internet connection through mobile

* Power

* LAN status

Package Contents

In the box, we can find the router power adapter and user manual for instructions. Manufacturer unfortunately not provided us information about the gadgets that can connect to the device. And users have to look for an external antenna themselves and buy on their own.

Interface and Support

The device is taken out of the box practically ready for use. To use the mobile Internet, we only need to put a SIM card into and snap, and plug the snap into B683 Router. After power is on, a 3G LAN / Wi-Fi router starts working. Usually, you don’t even need to set up a profile , but if you are unlucky to do this, it’s simple and easy, the configuration wizard helps you through the whole process step by step, you just follow up the wizard and click finish. All finished and it will auto connect to internet.

If we want to use more advanced functions of the router, you have to delve into the administration panel. Do not fail the people who want to have access to a large number of network settings.

Huawei B683 3G Router could set up below configuration:

* MAC address filtering

* IP address filtering

* Setup DMZ

* Mobile network settings (including manual network selection)

* DHCP

* UPnP

Regarding the stability and speed of data transmission – during the test, they are not a big deal. Only when the Wi-Fi connected the three devices simultaneously, this is not enough for the maximum device quantity that HUAWEI B683 could connect. It could support total 32 users to share the network.

Mobile internet worked without delay, the HUAWEI B683 Wireless Router could found and correct 3G network in a few seconds. The infrastructure of the operator at the test, unfortunately, did not allow for “squeezing all the juice” from the router. The test speed that I was able to achieve a 2.05Mbit/s (download) and 0.04Mb/s (upload), even the peak speed declared by the manufacturer could reach 28MB/s (download) and 5.76Mb/s (upload). I suppose it’s due to the network environment.

Huawei also has equipped its product in several additional and very useful features. One of them is the ability to send and receive SMS messages from the admin (of course, if our operator gave this functionality).

Summary

Huawei B683 3G WiFi Router is the ideal solution for those who want to create a small network. The device is so functional that allows you to use both mobile internet and desktop – through the telephone line.

Unfortunately, the device also has disadvantages. Manufacturer begrudged accessories for the router – in the standard package, there is only power adapter, user guide, then users couldn’t anything more.

Anyhow, we still give good praise on the router performance, because the case is well fit and makes a solid impression. It is a pity that the manufacturer has applied the glossy, new material. On the other hand, this type of equipment will not touch rather too often, so the prints should not be a problem.

The most important is that when we test it, it keeps working at stable status, which is key point users concern.

Actually, HUAWEI also has other 3G Wireless Routers, such as HUAWEI B970b HSDPA 3G WiFi Router, we will introduce next time.