HUAWEI 5G CPE Pro, SmartHome 5G dual-band Wi-Fi, for ultra-fast connection in med-large homes, businesses or travel homes. Connects to 64 devices, App for complete control & 2 year warranty

Early days however ordered this to replace an existing Huawei B525. I am on UK Three network on 4G (no 5G in my part of the country) and distribute the WiFi LAN around my 3 storey 5000sqft house via an Orbi with two satellites plugged Into the B525, and use an externally mounted Poynting XPOL A0001 Omni antenna at the top floor and was good for 40-75Mbps download depending on network congestion/time of day. If I hang my iPhone out of the top floor window I can usually get about 10Mbps more than the set up I described.I get the 5G CPE out of the box, no tweaks, no antenna, put it on the window ledge of the top floor window (close but lower than the external Poynting) and immediately had 95Mbps vs 55Mbps against my regular set up as described above. I reckon I am getting at worst 33% better speed, but up more like 70-100% better on balance through the day. I am now getting a solid 85Mbps at my ground floor Apple TV, usually circa 25-35Mbps.I have to say the interface on my software/firmware is fine, works quickly enough and have enough functionality: I can change the WiFi channel width to 20/40/80mhz which is better functionality than my Orbi.Down side is the price which between £350-400 is expensive (it doesn’t have wifi6) but it is 5G future proof and as fast as I believe there is for 4G. On Three network I can not recommend it highly enough - nearly 100Mbps for £20/p.m. unlimited, that takes some beating.I will update when I have the TS9 adapters for my SMA antenna and can plug the external antenna onto it.UPDATE: External antenna seems to make little difference, on the 'location check' facility it seems its current location is not great and as this is virtually the same location but outside the window where the router is currently positioned I guess its the signal loss over the 5m cable from the antenna that loses any gain/benefit.TS9 connectors very much inferior to SMA, this is an unusual decision from Huawei and definitely a step backwards.One thing I have noticed the signal strength seems to drop off over night needing a reboot to get back to optimum speeds. Dont know why and hope this can be resolved in settings??Finally, I have to say my increase in speed in my original review was conservative, I am regularly getting over 100Mbps and would say it has literally doubled my real world speed even without an external antenna - amazing.

Great design, fabulous speed but absolutely terrible for networking. If you're only planning to use it with a few devices like smart phone, tablet or desktop it's fine. But if you have CCTV, a vpn router linked to it or a smart speaker like Alexa.. forget about it. Just won't work and there's nothing you could do. They are all connecting into the router, ping ok but can't be accessed on LAN at least, not to mention the internet. I believe the issues might be in its DNS / CLAT,CPE. Putting the devices' DNS on manual only made things worse. With the official firmware you can't change it as a regular user. Also, no option to switch off IPv6 if needed.In terms of speed I've got consistent 80meg from about 50meg with the old router, on EE's 4G. Mobile signal strength went up to full bars from 75%. That's useless as long as this can't be considered a good router.

Like other reviewers, I noticed a ton of weird management issues, and it was all down to the way IPv6 is handled.Huawei have basically locked every admin setting apart from Wifi SSID if you use this thing on EE, this goes without saying is not the correct way to approach this challenge.The speeds are great, I went from 30mbps on an LTE modem all the way up to 200mbps down with this.But I unfortunately cannot recommend this as at the price its set at, and function it delivers is not worth the purchase.If Huawei fix this bizarre method and allow us to enable something like IPv4v6 dual stack and open up admin settings then I would gladly recommend it.PS- I also bought the antenna, and noticed a 100mbps speed drop.My old LTE antenna in the same spot gave me around 200mbps down but limited my upload, so I would recommend using it without an antenna.

The pace of technology is remarkable. I am not able to test this on 5g yet although it has an LED to indicate if 5g signal is good. I am running off three network home broadband 4g and previously have a typical 12mbs download via speedtest using older 4g router. I would say the signal from three is not the greatest downstairs in my property. I have chosen best upstairs location the improvement is staggering easily averaging 65mbs sometimes 75 to 80mbs. The signal is stable uninterrupted for streaming . Very impressed with the Huawei 5g CPE and three network.An update ..... I have been using this router since Nov2019 my setup is complicated with two access points on the LAN so have option of base station CPE PRO and two Asus access points. The setup has been reliable I do get speed drops but streaming Iplayer etc all good. The Huawei settings page is easy to understand although updating firmware (once ) recently defaulted the IP address to out of the box setting. There's a lot of devices wired and wifi connecting to access points etc all works well, I am hoping that Three 5g comes to my area . I am so glad I cut the ties with major fibre broadband company > I do not miss them at all. I am hoping somebody will provide more reviews of the AF9E before committing to a purchase. WELL I HAVE RELIED ON THIS ROUTER SINCE LEAVING FIBRE COMPANY BIG NAME STILL NO REGRETS SEVERAL MONTHS LATER. YES SPEEDS ARE NOT COMPARABLE TO FIBRE BUT RELIABLE IPLAYER AND OTHER STREAMING SERVICES FINE LOAS OF CONNECTED DEVICES ALBEIT ACCESS POINTS (ASUS ROUTERS) IN THE HOUSE - CAMERAS FIRE TV COMPUTERS PHONES NO ISSUES - ALSO VOIP FOR MAIN PHONE LINE. THE ONLY DRAWBACK THE SOFTWARE UPDATE LOSES THE SETTINGS (IP ADDRESS DEFAULT TO FACTORY) MAYBE THE LATEST UPDATE FIXES THIS TESTING SOON. I WILL SAVE A BAK FILE THIS TIME TO RETAIN SETTINGS. I WISH I HAD MORE INFORMATION REVIEWS ON THE AF9E AERIAL BEFORE THINKING OF A PURCHASE . I DOUBT 5G AVAILABLE MY LOCATION ANY TIME SOON - RG10 AREA