I bought the TP-Link TL-MR3020 as a gift for a friend of the home only by Surfstick has Internet access, the reception of your provider in the living room but is really bad. For such applications this device is absolutely the right one.
But from the beginning:
Expected package 1A as Amazon.
Unit unpacked and the first thing you should do: FIRMWARE UPDATE! If people here partially writing their surfsticks would not recognize that is probably on of outdated firmware.
So new firmware on it and my E173 from Huawei was detected immediately! With new firmware even PIN entry is possible in the old had to be deactivated before using the router.
If a stick despite the latest firmware can not be identified as the producer side a binary file to be downloaded to a few sticks that have not yet made it into the firmware. This is easily imported via the web interface of the router.
I have tried all modes of operation of the router and am thrilled.
First, the mode which is why you buy the device: 3G / 4G (LTE sticks are supported since the latest firmware)
I would like to highlight but the "WISP" mode:
This is a convenient mode because it opens up many possibilities.
What does the router ?!
The router's client and access point in one device, so you can, for example, increase the range of a network by placing the router at the reception limit of the first wireless network, the router einpflegt the credentials so that it can log into the network and in turn this access redistributed via its access point function. It is not a repeater function for the MR3020 spans a network with a new channel and SSID on your own!
Access to corporate networks is usually very tricky: Only registered devices with corresponding MAC address to the network also have to be authenticated as an authorized user and often the access to a device is limited.
Now the router: It can have MAC addresses of any device, this can be easily adapted in the web interface. Entering login data is equally possible, so copying is allowed to the MAC address of his company laptop to the device with this the company network to connect, and as mentioned above has one via the access point and Internet access for tablet, smartphone, etc.
Now I want to continue to give him garnicht: -D
