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NETGEAR is delighted to be working with EE to provide its customers with the new Nighthawk M1 4G mobile router, said David Henry, Senior Vice President of Connected Home Products for NETGEAR. This new category of mobile routers is destined to be an essential tool for those that need to provide superfast 4G WiFi to a number of devices.” The Nighthawk M1 runs on Telstra’s 4G LTE network and it’s theoretically able to hit speeds up to 1Gbps. Talking of your phone, if it runs out of battery while you’re out and about (remember those days?) then you can use the M2 as a power bank. You simply use its battery to top up your phone’s.
What the ‘External’ antenna connectors on the M1 can and cannot do is a real minefield after reading the many very technical posts on this forum.
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The Telstra 4G LTE Advanced Category 16 network is being upgraded as we speak and they’ve started with the towers in capital city CBDs. BTW. I buy my batteries off Battery World here in Brissie. They are normally very good, but this one tested them.
The M2 also includes a USB-A port and a USB-C port. You use the USB-C port to charge the device, but the USB-A port (which is what most people mean when they say “USB port”) has a couple of useful functions. This device is a collaboration between Netgear and Telstra while under the hood Qualcomm has weighed in with the Snapdragon X16 LTE modem that supports faster data throughput on all areas of the Telstra LTE network. That upload speed is pretty impressive when you consider the upload speed on our Optus cable home broadband connection rarely gets over 2Mbps. The M2 certainly isn’t light on features. It supports both 2.4GHz (best for range) and 5GHz (best for outright speed) Wi-Fi bands and you can connect multiple devices – unlike the 4G USB dongles, which only provide a connection to the laptop/PC you’re using.It also acts as a data counter, telling you precisely how much of your data quota you’ve chewed through. It’s a shame that this counter only works on a monthly basis – for example, the 25GB of data I bought from Vodafone lasts 90 days, but Netgear will only allow the counter to last for a maximum of a month. Netgear Nighthawk M2: performance
For our review, we didn’t reach speeds anywhere near 1Gbps – but the headroom is there when the network catches up with this device’s stunning capabilities – and it’s not far off. Any product that can keep us connected at high speed on the go will always be popular. Meet the Netgear Nighthawk M1 – a mobile router that’s so fast you might need to wear a seatbelt. EE is the only UK operator to provide the advanced 4G+ network speeds that can deliver the full capability of the Nighthawk M1’s ‘Cat 16’ specification. EE started offering these speeds earlier this summer in London’s Tech City and Cardiff, and they are being rolled out across Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. This summer, EE demonstrated real world 4G+ speeds of 429Mbps in Cardiff city centre using a ‘Cat 16’ smartphone, and the NETGEAR Nighthawk M1 is the first 4G WiFi device able to access these speeds. Our speed tests in the Sydney CBD produced wildly different results. Our highest speeds were 293.48 Mbps (in Martin Place) and 146.21 Mbps (on the Martin Place side of the Pitt St Mall) with upload speeds of 37Mbps and 23Mbps respectively. Share to up to 20 devices: The Nighthawk M1 supports Wi-Fi access to up to 20 devices at once. That’s going to slice its available bandwidth up rather thinly, but if you’re after a device to run a larger number of devices, this could be quite handy.Mobile hotspot products are arguably the best match for business users who need that kind of continuity of data. The practical reality for many consumers will be that it’s simpler and easier to just set up your existing smartphone as an ad-hoc hotspot as needs require rather than running a separate hotspot device.
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