NETGEAR AirCard Smart Cradle - Wireless router - 4-port switch - GigE - 802.11ac - Dual Band

As I live out in the wilds of Suffolk, the broadband can be pretty slow. Best speed I can get is usually around 5 Mbps. EE does have 4G in the area, but I can only get it upstairs in one room with three bars showing on my iPhone. So having bought the AC810 and also the cradle, my signal strength has increased to four bars and the cradle now gives me a wifi network that covers the whole house. It's also more than doubled my download speed on 4G. I've attached a pic that shows normal 4G download speeds vs connected to the cradle. Recommended.

Not cheap , but nice piece of kit , works well

Got this to pair with an AC790 air card. The positives are it’s easy to put the air card on the unit, it’s easy to plug it in, you get the extra LAN ports and the stable base and, in theory, you get the extra wifi and LTE antennas. it’s a chunky base station too - and seems to include a fan in it but I never experienced it actually turn on, despite my air card getting pretty hot in use. As I got it for a few reasons, it’s worth looking at those in more detail. 1) To provide LAN ports to and to act as a router on my network. It does well here, with the LAN ports allowing it to be integrated with a power line network and so on - plus good WIFI coverage from the unit itself. The standard NetGear software to control it makes it very familiar to set up if you’ve used a NetGear router before. Downsides is it introduced a double NAT. For general internet use, this is fine - the equipment works around it. If you’re into gaming however, this can give problems and despite setting up uPNP, specifying a DMZ etc, I was never able to fully remove the double NAT with this unit. To be fair double NATing seems a consistent problem with the LTE setups I’ve looked at and possibly is down to the general way they work - certainly it’s not something i see with an ADSL connection. 2) To improve the LTE reception. it failed miserably here. It was no better than the base air card. Even attaching an external antenna to the two TS-9 ports made no difference (and the same antenna does make a difference with a different router). the air card also got very hot and I did experience some freezes/restarts - which is odd considering it HAS a fan in it - it just never used it. So overall it failed for what I particularly wanted - improved reception. It works okay as a router, it works okay as a base station - but it seemed a real missed opportunity to excel in those areas. it’s good but it’s 3 stars at best from my experiences of it.

This additional device changes the ball game in the field of mobile hotspots. The connection is stable and strong to feed the whole house at a high quality signal, are real addition to a fixed location, no more drop outs and resets. Good kit. A good buy. Very happy with this additional bit of kit, makes it just like a permanent fixed connection.

It does a terrific job. Very with it!

Great dock for the aircard giving great WiFi all over the house.

Didn’t work

All depends wat ur after It ok But not brill

Ottimo prodotto..acquistato perché volevo coniugare in unico prodotto le caratteristiche di un router portatile con un router fisso(porte ethernet).Fa tutto quello che deve fare e lo fa bene,Non aspettatevi portate stellari di wifi,ha una portata mediante le sue antenne come un router di medie prestazioni.Ottima la possibilità di inserire l'aircard senza batteria,in modo di non sottoporre la batteria a inutili ricariche.Eccellente infine la presenza di una porta USB 3.0 per poter condividere in questa rete "portatile" stampanti ,chiavette,e hard disk.Soddisfattissimo.

ist zwar nicht ganz billig, aber erfüllt seinen zweck mehr als erwartet. LTE und WLan um einiges stärker und stabil. Gleich nach der Inbetriebnahme Firmware update und seitdem läuft das ding ohne unterbrechung ->> TOP

I actually bought this on behalf of my son - who says that the device works well and does what its meant to do. easy purchase and fantastic same-day delivery so very happy.

un poco caro y algo voluminoso, funciona perfectemente en combinación con el router 4g, podría tener un tamaño mas pequeño y ergonomico, pero su funcionamiento es correcto.

Accessorio assolutamente necessario per amplificare il segnale del vostro hotspot wifi generato dagli apparecchi Netgear. Può anche svolgere funzioni da router con DHCP incorporato. Prodotto assolutamente efficace.