Review on Huawei B535 WiFi Sim Card Router Hotspot: Unlocked 4G LTE 📶 CPE Cat 7 Mobile WiFi (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa) - White by Michal Wjcik ᠌

Name: Huawei B535 WiFi Sim Card Router Hotspot: Unlocked 4G LTE 📶 CPE Cat 7 Mobile WiFi (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa) - White
Item: Huawei B535 WiFi Sim Card Router Hotspot: Unlocked 4G LTE 📶 CPE Cat 7 Mobile WiFi (Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa) - White
Rating: 4

April 21, 2023

The product is of good quality, there is only one minor defect.

This router is sold in the 2022 in different trim levels. In one configuration there are external antennas and a black power supply, and in other configurations there is a white power supply, but no antennas. I bought in amazon, there were antennas and there was a black power supply.

A few words about operators and terms of growth (I'm in the very center of the city, a sea of ​​communication towers, the maximum level of network reception):

Iota, tariff for modems - reception at the peak of 180 Mbps, return at the peak of 50 Mbps; However, it sags to 10-15 Mbps after 30-40 minutes of use, alas.

Megaphone, tariff for modems - reception at a peak of 180 Mbps, return at a peak of 50 Mbps, sags up to 100-120 Mbps (although it would seem that the network is the same as that of Iota, but no, it works much better ).

Nevertheless, I advise this router for purchase. It is reliable, accurate, supports frequency aggregation. This is a device for giving, at home or a small office. Of course, it is not suitable for corporate purposes (simply due to the limited firmware).
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Pros

De facto, it works out of the box (with SIM cards for routers). Easy setup. In the web interface, it is possible to configure automatic reboot - which is important for devices of this type. Works much better than devices that do not support frequency aggregation. This device has LTE cat. 7 (however, this device never reaches the declared 300 Mbps - read the comment).

Cons

Inconvenient SIM card tray. The sim cards themselves are micro-sim size (which turned out to be not very convenient for devices of this type - they would have made either Nano or already a classic large one). It turned out to be non-obvious that by default the manufacturer set different passwords on Wi-Fi and on the web face of the router. However, both of them are written on the case (but this is for the attentive). : after six months of use, oddities in the work were revealed: a) the router makes the guest network only WiFi 2.4, and if WiFi 2.4 is turned off in the settings, the ability to turn on the guest network disappears. At the same time, for some reason, in the vast majority of cases, the router drives all devices to a frequency of 2.4, even despite the “WiFi 5 priority” setting. As a result, I paired this router with Huawei AX3 and the problem was solved. Thus, my B535 works as an LTE modem, and AX3 Pro as a router inside the office. And in this combination, everything is much better. Still, the B535 cannot fully cope with the function of distributing the Internet over the air. On 1.2.3 computers/phones/tablets it's ok, and then WiFi speed cuts, the network becomes unresponsive, devices are forcibly driven to 2.4 MHz even those that are right next to it and even support Wifi 6.