RAVPower Filehub, Travel Router N300, Hotspot WiFi Devices, WiFi Bridge/Range Extender/Access Point/Client Modes, DLNA NAS Sharing Media Streamer - HooToo TripMate Nano Update Version

When I purchase tech products, I try to push them to the limit. With this travel router, I managed to get 5 devices playing back 1080p video at full quality without stuttering (picture does not show my phone as I needed it to take the picture). For a $20 gadget, it truly blows my mind. At five devices, the internet speed of the router was halved which isn't a huge issue if you are watching a video. The router was slightly warm to the touch while playing on those devices.Although the stellar performance of the router should grant an instant 5 stars, the web browser and official app are terrible. The only useful part of these programs is to change device settings. There are very limited video and photo viewing options. For mobile (I haven't dug into the web browser too much), you aren't able to sort files or even search for files. This demonstrates how far behind their app is compared to traditional file management apps. For Windows 10, the USB device connected to the drive can be mapped, negating this issue. I haven't yet found an alternative for mobile.Another thing to note is USB devices can still be accessed via the router even without be hooked to Ethernet.EDIT: I recommend not using the included micro USB cable. This cable is very cheap and nearly fried my USB port (very high pitch whirring sound with the smell of smoke). Any other micro USB cable is a much better alternative to this one.

I purchased this to use in a RV. I used my cell phone data hotspot and created a wifi connection that can be used to connect multiple devices. This did work just fine. I used 2 phones to get this set up. One phone was set up as the hotspot. I downloaded the RAV FileHub on another phone to use to control this unit. There are some things I don't like about it. It comes with a pre loaded admin password and a easy to hack wifi user connect password. A pin hole reset button allows you to go back to these settings if you need to. It appears to have settings you can access in the RAV FileHub app that would allow you to change these passwords but I spent a length of time unable to do so. I would like to suggest the manufacturer include a video in how to change these settings. When using anything like this with the user password, a secure connection is at risk if someone nearby knows the user password. I didn't check the range of this. It's most likely limited but if it's range covers the average size of a house, that's large enough for a hacker to get in. Changing the admin password and user password is vital to creating a personal secure network in public. I found this to be suitable for my need but I need to be able to change these settings. Maybe I missed these instructions in the booklet. Sadly, the instructions are very small and hard to read. If anyone can post a video how to change these settings, that would help. I'll keep it but at this point I will have limit it's use to as needed. Plug it in and unplug it when I'm not using it. Not exactly what I had in mind.

What I really wanted was a cheap dedicated media server, which this does effectively with no frills. I figured operation as a wifi bridge was bonus, and it does that okay too (fills a pocket in the parking lot that the ISP router doesn't quite reach). Transfers seem slow but that may be more my use of a low-cost flash drive than the data rate. As a wifi bridge, there will be a higher latency and slower overall throughput than being connected directly to the source router (a bit less than half, since all data is being repeated on the same radio), this is normal and it actually still performs well considering. Overall, no complaints.I did originally run into the "sticky defaults" issue, but solved it in the app. Basically, set a user password first. Settings changed in guest mode will not stick, you must set an admin "user" password first. Once signed in with the password, the other settings will stick (they become active on soft reboot).I did not test the Ethernet port.

Should be called "RavPowerless."I intended to use this thing as a file hub using DLNA for a USB hard drive full of movies and music. IT DOESN'T WORK. Using a 2.4a/5v power supply on the Ravpower, (recommend minimum is 1a,) I tried several USB drives, with and without external power, 320 gig up to 1 terabyte, including an SSD drive, either plugging directly into the Ravpower or with a powered USB hub. FAIL. (And, yes, I verified all the drives themselves we're working by plugging them directly into a Windows PC.) The only thing that worked, or even seemed to fully power up, was a 64 gig USB "thumb" drive.According to the user manual, "As a File hub... Share files from the attached USB storage" It goes on to state "USB Drive Connection: connect with a USB hub to share files to 4 USB drives connected to the hub." Four? It couldn't handle one! Again, FAIL.The networking and wifi features seemed to work fine. The app and web interface weren't very good, but usable nonetheless. If you want something to keep in your laptop bag in case you need a simple wireless router, it's probably worth the 15 bucks Amazon was selling it for, (I think it was a "lightning deal" of some sort.) Or maybe somebody with a pile of little thumb drives laying around could use it.

I am not a networking expert, but this device seems to have limitations. I hoped to be able to use a file on my flash drive attached to the Rav hub. For example, bring up a wordprocessing app on any laptop, open a file on the flash attached to the hub, modify it and save it back to the flash attached to the hub. I could not do this. This device allows one to access the files via the html application in the Rav hub, and then to transfer the file (copy it) to another device. You can't modify it on the flash drive, you have to copy it to your device first. If you don't have this capability, this provides it rather well. But I would prefer to modify it without copying it, so all files are just on the shared flash. I think I'll stay with my Samba share, which does allow some files to be used as I describe (except for LibreOffice write, which is my problem). I defer to any networking experts who can get this thing to work as I've described.