I am already a customer of many years of AVM products and was with the German quality goods have always been satisfied.
When I switched on the country by the lame 764kbit DSL LTE on the Telekom I had initially meet with fellow envoys Speedport LTE II of the Pink Giant.
Then the shock: If you can call this router device at all it has no advanced settings. Furthermore, the user interface was confusing.
In addition, the unit had to keep massive problems be WLAN radio stable and I had to manually restart it often. It also recognized for some reason not dLAN connection from the router to the PC in the study (LTE router on the 1st floor for connection)
I came to the conclusion: What do I want with an Asian airline scrap of Huwei? As a Fritz box is needed!
When the unit was then set up was great relief.
I count out any improvements to telecom equipment.
(Which have now indeed an improved Speedport but I highly doubt that there solved all the problems and the settings have been extended)
++ Improved reception
++ Upload: Especially the upload has, thanks to the two antennas to 150kbyte / sec increased the speed haven was not much better than they did with the DLS 764
+ Download: Has only a slight improvement, but in contrast to the Speedport stable values Download / does not vary so much (is 700kbyte to 1,3mbyte / sec)
++ Usability
++ Receive Settings: No comparison to the Speedport, is even the possibility the position of the LTE antennas optimize.
++ Home network:
---> Can anybody connected to the router device individually adjusted and also the connection caps (especially for parents want to allow the children of limited access, even for smartphones possible).
---> Keinerleit problems with LAN, or DLAN connections. Recognizes the device immediately after they have been connected.
++ Internet settings: Router Reconnect is naturally present, to tariff counter, statistics weeks consumption and comparison of individual months.
- Telekom has not yet among Internet providers available (probably because the Telekom first banned third-party products). One has therefore when setting up the LTE Verbinung Select "Other Internet Provider". Then but was no problem with the setting)
Unfortunately, the device has some technical weaknesses, but apparently all LTE routers still occur.
- Wireless connection breaks selterner from: Situated at the nearby lying together the LTE and WLAN radio network, is apparently an overlap and the WLAN breaks then together there. Restart on the device by pressing a button and problem is solved. But AVM praised Verbessrung per updatet. Already carried out an update and problem has become quite rare.
When Speedport LTE II I had 10x as many disconnections and the WLAN was a Katasrophe.
TIP: WLAN antenna should not be on a horizontal line with the LTE antennas, then the problem reduces drastically.
GUESS: I think one of the first LTE router, the problem will never be completely unrecoverable, I guess the nights high-end LTE Fritz box no longer has this childhood disease.
- LTE connection can break every now and then. Is this time but Fremdverschulden the LTE radio cell sometimes arbitrarily distributed Internet (with a neighbor who has spoken also purchased the Fritz box, confirms these strange occurrences). The negative point is that the Fritzbox it every now and then do not go selbt gets back properly connect. Ie either Router Reconnect or GAU case (LTE and WLAN fall simultaneously) by pressing a button both systems restart. Comes in perhaps 1: 100, with me once.
Conclusion:
The device is now and remains times German quality since you can not mekern.
Who LTE At length must be just be aware that it is radio. And radio happens to be no cable which always stable supplies data.
Digital mobile technology is now time still at the beginning of what is possible. LTE is and remains only one alternative for land and mobile electronics.
The Fritzbox 6840 LTE is initially simply the best solution in the home routing.
The small weaken the AVM yes vowed to remedy are in no relation to the benefits it offers.
Therefore, I recommend to everybody on the edge of its radio area lives up once to buy this device before you have to deal with the problem of an external antenna.
To achieve a truly home Admin will play the Fritz box probably the favorite toy to its network to its needs.
Cheap AVM has never been, the price / performance but balanced.