{"id":50631,"date":"2020-06-04T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/?p=50631"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:31:11","slug":"review-tenda-4g680-v2-0-4g-lte-router-with-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/reviews\/review-tenda-4g680-v2-0-4g-lte-router-with-wifi.html","title":{"rendered":"Review: Tenda 4G680 V2.0 4G LTE Router with WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In times like these the thoughts of a broadband outage are enough to make you shudder. So here’s a look at the Tenda 4G LTE Broadband Router which could just save your sanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4G to WiFi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 4G680V2.0 N300 is a router with VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and Tenda say it will “support over 300 mobile\/cellular networks in over 135 countries”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is everything you need, in a single box, to receive 3G or 4G LTE cellular broadband and turn it into a WiFi network that you can use to share an Internet connection with up to 32 of your devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2.4GHz 802.11 b\/g\/n wireless LAN it creates can transfer data at speed of up to 300Mbps down and up to 50Mbps up, where supported by your local cellular network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as being a backup for when your road is dug up or some other outage, it could also be perfect for a temporary office, holiday homes or rural houses that have rubbish broadband. I’ve even read of people using them in their car as a WiFi Hotspot too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The box includes the 4G680V2.0 unit, Quick Install Guide, Two antennas the 12v\/1A Power supply, Ethernet cable and an RJ11 phone cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a minute or two the unit had booted and I was able to connect to its WiFi network and access the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our install actually lived up to the advertised ‘zero config’. I just took it out of the box, slotted one of these Three Data Sims<\/a> into the bottom of the unit (it’s unlocked for any network) and turned it on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can set a maximum monthly data usage limit via the mobile app which will automatically disconnect for the cellular network to avoid overcharges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two hidden internal antennas handle the Wi-Fi, whilst the two external ones are for 3G \/ 4G. As the unit has removable cellular antennas (SMA connectors) you have to option of changing them for a high gain antenna like this<\/a> or even an external one like this<\/a> to really maximise your signal strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as your SIM supports it (not data only) you can also simultaneously make phone calls as well by plugging a regular handset into the RJ11 phone port on the rear. You can make calls and use the WiFi data network simultaneously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can manage the router via a browser (default 192.168.0.1 admin:admin) or Telnet. It can provide DHCP (or not) although it’s worth pointing out that the router does not allow Port Forwarding of any kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the WAN port allows you to connect your hardwired broadband instead, using the unit as for WiFi and moving the cellular feature to become a failover backup option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict<\/h2>\n\n\n

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This unit was superb in our tests. It worked straight out of the box with zero configuration and established a reliable WiFi network from the 4G cellular network. I’m dropping a half star for no port forwarding capabilities but all in all highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In times like these the thoughts of a broadband outage are enough to make you shudder. So here’s a look at the Tenda 4G LTE…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-06-04T07:34:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"94bae07e-e576-4e1d-a589-6583daa6687a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-07T09:31:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlLrgfuV2Th2liWWD2qZoeg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-reviews"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tenda-hero.jpg?fit=777%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50631"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53774,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50631\/revisions\/53774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}