MERCUSYS TP-Link TL-SF1005D 5-Port 10-100 Mbps Desktop Ethernet Switch-Hub, Ethernet Splitter, Plug & Play

I think this router is well worth the money. Personally I bought this to be a fail over for my fibre service as the company I'm with is a small company due to no openreach fibre as of yet. We have had a few outages and that means we have been offline multiple times and the worst was nearly 24hours. We also have lots of WiFi controlled smart devices that don't work without a connection so I have this router setup as a fail over if and when the fibre goes down and the plus side you can take it on holiday or in the car. I'm using the smarty social tariff at £12 a month which uses three network. I have a high end phone which also uses three and where I live signal and speeds are poor at best I get 30mbps on my phone. On the router I have seen spikes of 50mbps but again settles at 30ish unless early hours of the.morning. I have been testing the devices ability over a few days and been switching off our fibre connection so we are completely relying on the 4g. I did this over a few days but longest test was a Saturday where kids were home and watching tablets aswell as me having the TV on and using phones. Now this handles it quite happily and we have over 30 devices online. I could still access my cameras remotely, I experienced no buffering and I was very impressed. I feel like for a small household who doesn't require internet to work from home this would be superb. I have it located upstairs using the internal antennas sort of in the middle of the house and that seemed to be the best combination for a location to have power and access to the loft to get ethernet to main router but also signal and speeds. I can't rate this thing highly enough. I have also ordered a 5v usb to 12v adapter as that will be easier to.plug in at home but also easier to power in the car or from a power bank if we have a power outage. My only complaint is it doesn't have a battery which I could find a single one on the market that provided battery and ethernet. Not the end of the world as I have a jackery power station but just something to bare in mind. The only thing I have noticed is the WiFi strength isn't the greatest with my tablet which doesn't really affect me as my.main router does the distribution but this may just be my tablet being weird. All in all id recommend this, I would also recommend getting the usb supply atleast then you can keep the router power by a power bank or similar and move it round your home to find your best signal location like I did.

So far this has been amazing.So I've had a weak signal spot in my house for so long and as more devices enter the house, it has gotten more noticeably worse. Now in this weak spot is where I have my 'gaming setup' and you will know how frustrating it can be and how mad some can get over 'lag' and all sorts. Hence why I bought this and i can say it has been a revelation. It has been a great tool to not only boost the signal strength but also boost the speed too. I plugged it in right next to my computer and it says it has a good connection and only sometimes it will glow orange. It was an overall easy setup. There is multiple different ways to set it up and I took the website way and it was a little confusing but I understood it. I just plugged it in and then got my ethernet and plugged it into the adapter and into my computer (ethernet cables not included). It works great. I've not really had any issues with this so far and I don't think it's ever been close to as bad as before. I've seen massive improvements and I love it. The build looks nice too and gives a modern feel and I like it also. It doesn't produce any noise from what I can hear for people worried about that. Definitely recommend.

Impressed by not so easy setup to identify type of product at start of app :- setup process, initially it didn’t work until I selected the product setup product setup as “router”, did it the find the device:- after which it was then straightforward menu-driven setup.Once nano SiM orientation figured out and inserted, all lights turns solid “green”:- all ok and works like a treat , it’s 5G reception indoors, good reception of 5G, to my surprise getting 5G, it’s powerful enough t to pick up 5G signal indoors, happy with this, from past experiences this was my look-out for in routers with 5G providers SIM, at 5hz instead of 2.4 hzConstant power supply via plug is added value instead of battery powered router.The router box sits steady on table or flat surface which is a plus, RJ45 cable supplied is stiff and short for connecting to a WiFi- router when this is used as a repeater, ( paradox ), 2 routers in series.But works, no conflicts, connected netgear m2100 to this router: compatiable n works!!Please with promotional priced for SIM - router device,Reception signal pick up indoors good, all green lights on side of panel!A bit pricey for old technology but with broadband prices for wired broadband these days, SIM based broadband is a way of cutting unduly high cost of broadband without the added long term contracts, this setup n configuration adds value to you as a user! Would have liked the upload speed to be faster at 20 mb/sec! But trolled by provider of services! Otherwise product device meets expectation of 4G router

Only had it a few hours so basing our comments on our immediate experience.First it's very plasticky and light weight.It doesn't have a rj45 slot.It does have 3 antenna.It is single band.We needed it to run seamlessly.When it was connected using wps it automatically added _ext.We reset it (button underneath) after plugging it into a socket near a PC (nowhere near the router).On the PC we closed any running internet service.We looked for the Merc Id , clicked on it to make it functional. (It's not connected to the router yet).We then input into a browser the link from the leaflet provided so that we could then set the same ssid and wireless service password as our router.And that's all there is to it.Works wonderfully at the moment.The important bit it's not in the best place since it has an orange light not green and a distance from the router.Despite this it has more than doubled (2x to 3x) the speed compared to the tplink 850 it has replaced.So at the moment it's adequate for very little money. Easy to set up. Hopefully it has longevity.