TP-Link 300 Mbps 3G/4G Single-Band Wi-Fi Router, 1x 2.0 USB Port, 5x Fast WAN/LAN Ports, Connect up to 32 devices, WPS Button, No Configuration Required, UK Plug (TL-MR3420), Black, White

And I still am given my previous less than satisfactory experience with TP-Link products especially when it comes to their Wireless Access Points and Repeaters - Not because they make bad products, But their firmware was excruciatingly buggy. While I only managed to get my unit set up last night after work, It has been very easy to set up and configure and I literally had it going out of the box within 10 mins after a cup of tea or two. When booting up it takes a minute or two for the router to detect any 3G or 4G dongle and connect to the internet but thats a very minor issue compared to the bugs ive experienced on their products. Obviously the 'loading time' of the dongle could be sped up a little but so long as it works properly then I will be happy. I'm currently running this with a Huawei E367 testing out an EE data sim which was purchased at the same time. Since the dongle only supports 3G so theres no hitting anything above 10-20mbps. Speedtest reports between 5-6mbps but that's in the dead of night. The E367 is capable of hitting 21mbps but it has never gotten close which means its either the router that's capping the speeds, The ISP or just a bad dongle. I have seen LTE dongles going cheap on ebay and im tempted to purchase one for fun and have a play around. Ive heard that these routers use the PPP Protocol which creates massive overheads and stops the internet from running at its full speed. It seems ok so far, No problems to report but I wont keep my head held to high because shoddy firmware could easily strike again. After Im done with EE I will most likely move back over to 10GB a month from 3. Reason why i hesitate going back to Three is they throttle their connection HARD. I was with them for almost two years. net performance was good at first but the speed just totally dropped and it got to a point where Id be around 256k or 1/2 meg speeds. I'll see how this plays out over all - bad firmware could still kill the device for me. TP Link need to update their firmware a little more, Their last update was back in 2012, Im using an EE simcard but yet the dongle connects to T-mobile and there are no options of adding your own Access point to their profiles. Gonna give this a few weeks and report back when i have the other dongle in

This router is far FAR easier to set up in 3G mode than competitive products from the likes of Billion. Additionally I have moved from Netgear equipment to standardising on TP-Link because the TP user interfaces are easier to operate, and each setting is given its own help file & notes - so it is very hard to go wrong. The QSS button on the front panel will allow quick and easy connection to any other compatible TP-Link wireless device. The achilles heel of this or any 3G router will be the quality and speed of the 3G dongle you use. If your dongle is a tad slow or in a poor reception area you will find the router performance adversely affected (as you would expect). Imagine a Maserati with a 1.4 engine... Performance when connected to adsl via an appropriate modem is excellent. The only feature missing from this router which I would like, is a second usb port for connecting a hard drive. This is a feature of my TP-Link TP-Link TL-WR1043ND - Wireless router - 4-port switch - Gigabit Ethernet - 802.1 and allows quick and easy access to multimedia files (Mp3 and video). It would be good to have this feature on the TL-MR3420.

After some initial confusion about firmware updates I was very impressed with this router. I would have rated 5/5 if it wasn't for the firmware issue as it's not mentioned in the manual. Vote useful if you need a firmware installation guide, I have included below. Compatibility - Purchased a 3 network (using in the UK) Huawei e353 dongle and it worked straight out of the box with no firmware updates. Had an old e1550 dongle by Huawei that I couldn't get to work, even though was stated on the TP-Link website that it was supported. Signal Strength - I love in a large old 3 bed flat with solid brick walls between every room and I get full signal on my mac, and cheap £100 tablet in every room. THERE IS NO INSTRUCTIONS on how to do a firmware update. So, for those people who have dongles that should be compatible with this device and cannot figure this out, here's how: Download the latest firmware from the TP-Link site. Save it to desktop for ease of access or wherever you please. Plug in the router and connect to you're PC/Mac via the ethernet cable as described in the user manual. Type the TP-Link IP address (192.168.0.1 is default) and enter you're user/account name and password (admin, admin is default). Look down the left hand side menu and select 'System Tools'. In this drop down menu select 'Firmware Upgrade'. Copy and paste the location of the firmware upgrade you downloaded or select browse and locate the file that way. Click upgrade. VOILA. Hope this helps someone.

Firstly an aggravation that can't really be blamed on TP-LINK. There seem to be a lot of 3G dongle grrrrrs - no-one ever seems to be able to use pre-pay 3G-4G 'out-of-the-box.' This could well be an operator issue. Most if not all English networks now hoover up yet more personal data [so they can lose it in a hack] before they permit you to use their SIM card. This router is not equipped to deal with interaction and so quite understandably SIM and hence access won't work. You can't really blame TP-LINK for this.. You can now get EU 3G pre-pay data SIMs quite easily. Operators assume a ludicrously limited set-up so you may never receive these txt prompts. Unless the SIM is locked to an IMEI number my advice would be to pop a new pre-pay SIM card into a regular phone or other device which accepts SMS messages, hand over all that lovely personal data so the operators can share it with a spotty teenager later and install the SIM in the dongle once everything works... Having said that I would not recommend this router. I had this for three months. It was initially bought as ISP backup. I can't comment on that now as I can't remember reliably. Once that episode was over [thanks very much VM] I reused it as a basic access point for about five or six wifi clients. I'll grudgingly forgive TP-LINK for omitting 5GHz wireless and gigabt network because the thing is so cheap. My gripe: poor reliability. For two and a half months it operated well until I began to suspect an intrusion attempt; the network segment kept failing, log-ons were unreliable and internet was bumpy but I couldn't find any sign of intrusion. After several harrowing episodes the router started to lock up which helped isolate the issue. The fix was to restart the device using the physical switch which TP-LINK had thoughtfully provided [probably in anticipation.] It has failed in so little time: once it got to a point where it required a restart every morning it was disposed of [which is where a scheduled reboot function in the firmware might have saved it.] [by the way it's the later curvey version - seems to be a photo mismatch on the page]

I am using this with an O2 3G modem on T-Mobile with great results; it has allowed the mobile broadband connection to be used with multiple computers just like an ADSL wireless router without installing the (crap) software drivers/utility with 3G modem. OK, so it's not as polished as established brands (insert here ;), but the firmware is updated regularly - every month so far - and it worked with both O2 and T-Mobile modems with no issues (O2 modem is better with T-Mobile SIM). Not that established brands have good firmware these days - and try getting upgrades for them - at least TP-Link releases updates... Personally I'm very happy with this, loads of functionality, reasonable quality, many updates and cheap price - compared with established brands of similar build quality, not much better firmware, next to no updates and much higher price. They only have themselves to blame for racing to the bottom...

I am writing this review from Mallorca for you UK people who require connectivity whilst in Spain. I have a Movistar ZTE MF110 prepago dongle and have used it successfully for 3 years, one computer at a time. This modem was never supported in TP Links website but neither was my British Telecom (BT) UK 3G dongle but by luck this clever little box found a way to use the BT dongle. Unfortunately the device could not find a way to connect to the Movistar prepago. I can only surmise it was because I needed the Movistar escritorio software to perform some hand shaking because it was a pay-as-you-go (prepago) device. Because this little box has a WAN port I was able to connect my laptop to the wan port, connect the dongle to the laptop and use Internet connection sharing to get internet access into the TP link device. Once this was successful, all my apple devices had complete access. So the moral here is ensure your 3G dongle is supported before you buy. I did contact customer support but got absolutely nothing back, not even an acknowledgement that my email was received. I am returning this to Amazon only because my dongle is not compatible and with the configuration that ended up working doesn't require a wireless router with a 3G port. It connects really well with my apple devices and connects all over the villa we are at so this WOULD BE dynamite with a working 3G device.

The router itself is a good router, easy to set up and has excellent wireless coverage. The problem lies with the list of compatible USB dongles - it includes some that are incompatible. In my case a Huawei E3231 from'3'. Contact support and you will be advised to upgrade the firmware but it still doesn't work. I was also advised to get the dongle unlocked and then even connect using a USB cable - all in vain! I managed to borrow a Vodafone dongle and that is compatible. Unfortunately I had to wait too long before I was able to test the router otherwise it would have been sent back to Amazon. So I am now deciding whether to sell the router on ebay or to sell the unlocked '3' dongle, keep the router and buy a TP-Link dongle which you would like to think is compatible. My advice would be to test your dongle before you buy but since it only seems to be available through online retailers, your only hope will be if you happen to know someone with one of these routers.

Just moved to a new house and arrange for BT to connect up my broadband the day we moved in but with the engineer just not pitching up and no-one contacting us we've been left without broadband for, as it transpires after many lengthy phone calls resulting in suspension of disbelief as to how inefficient and ludicrous a company can be, over a month and a half from the original what was meant to be straight-forward engineer visit - i.e. one requiring only a trolley full of Cif and J-cloths, rather than a chainsaw and a lawyer. This little box, in combination with a little Three dongle (with them providing magnificent 3G broadband signal in our area with 02 only managing 1 pip on rectumnet, gives us back proper Internet with the simplicity of only having to connect up to our Home Wifi. Setup was a breeze, with the box recognising the dongle strait away and connecting up without issue. The Wifi signal is amazing also, giving us just below full strength on the ground floor with the box up on the 2nd, where my old Sky 'router' had trouble getting a single past the balustrade. The UI is easy to use & easy enough to tab through (if mouse is missing), Wifi settings come with it pre-enabled & are easy to tweak. The unit also looks great with decent build quality (insofar as consumer routers ever do have good build quality) The only issue I had was that the router doesn't seem to be able to report the 3G signal strength for the dongle I purchased (E3231v2), and I also can't see any interface allowing you to see any texts sent to the sim e.g. for 3 account activation, which just means I'll have to pull it out and stick it in a laptop to activate; but these a minor issues when considering the ease and brilliance of the product.

I purchased TP-LINK MR3420 (it is v5 EU model) router for connecting 4G dongle. The 4G dongles with wifi have very poor wifi performance and you maynot have good range at PC location, you have to place dongle outside house. Most 4G dongles have Qualcomm MSM8916 Chipset, they have ethernet over USB using RNDIS protocol, which is NOT supported by stock TP-LINK firmware. I also tried upgrading to latest official 1.7 firmware released in 2022, but no luck. Then I downloaded and installed OpenWRT 22.03.3 firmware for TP-LINK MR3420 v5, using ethernet cable and TFTP server running on PC. The router is now running perfectly, USB 4G dongle is detected after instaling RNDIS related packages from OpenWRT ssh shell. Router hardware is good enough, wifi signal is good. OpenWRT runs stable without issues. Also it supports connecting multiple USB modems, pen drives, printers using USB hub.

Ordinato il mercoledì sera, il venerdì mattina già arrivato... Amazon super! Per quanto riguarda il modello, dopo aver letto delle recensioni in cui alcuni utenti si lamentavano dell'invio del vecchio modello al posto del nuovo (come in fotografia), ho contattato il servizio clienti Amazon che mi ha assicurato che avrebbero provveduto a risolvere il problema... quindi a me è arrivato già il nuovo modello (quello più arrotondato). Il prodotto per ora funziona a meraviglia, ed uso una chiavetta brandizzata H3G E3131 (sbloccabile legalmente dalla 3 dopo 18 mesi dall'acquisto, per l'utilizzo di sim di altri operatori) a 21.6 Mbps con scheda prepagata (sempre 3) che va fortissimo: con un solo dispositivo per volta collegato, non rimpiango assolutamente l'ADSL, neanche nello streaming! Può essere (ma non ne sono certo) che aggiungendo più dispositivi che funzionino contemporaneamente, la velocità della navigazione diminuisca (poichè la banda utilizzata si divide tra i vari dipositivi in uso, per i quali il modem offre anche la possibilità di settare manualmente la quantità di banda per ogni dispositivo!), ma questo succede anche con l'ADSL! La ricezione del segnale diminuisce un po'(come è ovvio) nelle stanze più lontane ed intricate rispetto alla posizione del modem (anche se però devo provare a cambiare la posizione del modem, magari migliora un pochino), ma non è un grave handicap. L'installazione è risultata semplice seguendo il setup stesso del modem (dopo aver collegato il cavo ethernet al pc) senza l'ausilio del cd (basta dare un'occhiata veloce ai disegni delle istruzioni). Per chi usa 3, ricordarsi che l'APN automatico previsto dal modem VA CAMBIATO MANUALMENTE, altrimenti la chiavetta non si connette: non è "datacard.tre.it", bensì soltanto "tre.it". Occhio comunque a scegliere un operatore il cui segnale sia forte nella zona dove lo utilizzerete... perchè comunque il modem va benissimo, produce un ottimo segnale, ma se la ricezione della chiavetta non è buona non fa miracoli! Per chi poi, che come me non gradisce stipulare un'offerta ADSL (perchè temporaneamente in affitto, per i costi successivi all'offerta, o anche solo per la durata obbligatoria del contratto che di solito si aggira sui 24 mesi, ...), il modem TL-MR3420 della TP-LINK è un'ottima alternativa, per qualità (sia del modem stesso che del servizio reso) e per il prezzo! E poi vuoi mettere la comodità di portarti internet con la sola chiavetta quando magari stai fuori di casa più giorni?! Consigliatissimo!!!

This unit does exactly what it says on the tin. It was used to share a 4G connection after we moved house waiting for NBN. Connected to our existing Netgear Orbi wireless network with no problems and works really well.

works great . i'd order from here again. thank you

A facilidade de instalação.