TP-Link TL-WR1502X Portable Router WiFi 6 AX1500Mbps, Mini Travel Router for Home & Travel, WiFi Router, VPN Router, Gigabit Ports, USB Port, Enjoy Network Anywhere, Type-C Power, Pocket-sized

Excellent router and good value. Spent a bit of time looking for one that would work with my Tp-Link RE330 Wi-Fi extenders and hopefully replace my Sky Hub. Set up all my clients and used one mesh via the Tether App without any problems. Then came the challenge of disconnecting the Sky Hub and just using the AX53. Someone had provided details of the settings and procedure in the comments but blow my megabits off it connected without doing anything. Seems to be running fine. Very pleased 👍.

If you travel a lot, either with work, or with the family on holiday, this TP-Link TL-WR1502X Portable Router might just save your sanity. Before a family holiday, you can sit at home, with a cup of coffee and connect all the family devices, the phones, laptops, tablets, iPads, Steam Decks, portable printer etc. Then once you get to your destination, switching on the router will connect all the devices to a secure local network, the printer will see the laptop for example. Then all you need do is either plug the router in to the hotel ethernet port, or log in to the router's management page, scan the Wi-Fi networks, find the hotel guest network, connect the router, and viola, all your devices are now connected to the internet via the Portable Router. If you have not used a TP-Link device before, they have very intuitive menu interfaces. The one for the TL-WR1502X is particularly good, and even Muggles will be up and running in minutes. The other tech gobbledygook is handled by the router automatically. There are some really nice extra features offered by the TL-WR1502X. You can set up a router VPN (virtual private network), so if you were in a country that blocks say, Netflix, you can just swing your connection back to your home country, and enjoy all the entertainment accounts you have. You can even connect back in to your home network in your house, if you know what you are doing. So you could be on the far side of the Earth, but your devices all think they are back home. TP-Link also do an app called Tether. This app is very good, and lets you manage all your TP-Link devices, including the TL-WR1502X. You can do everything in Tether, from rebooting the device, to setting up your devices to either the 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz Wi-Fi channels, to maximise performance. You can even tell the router to give priority to the games consoles, if they are active. There are also all the usual parental controls, so internet connection can be time-limited to the children's devices, if you wish. And the beauty is, on your next family holiday, all you need do, is make one connection to the new hotel network/Wi-Fi, and you are up and running again. A good travel router like the TL-WR1502X is pretty much a vital necessity these days, for the travelling business person, or family holiday. Several YouTubers did full performance reviews of the TL-WR1502X. They found the radial signal strength to be good, and the router radiates a strong signal upwards. So, if you are renting a two-storey holiday house, the router is best placed centrally on the ground floor, for best coverage. The final feature, that might earn you some free drinks at the hotel bar, is the router offers a guest network feature. So, if you find yourself befriending the hotel neighbours, and they are not getting on well with the hotel Wi-Fi, you could set them up on a separate guest network from your travel router. The two networks will be completely separate from one another. Just make sure to get a free dinner out of it. Price versus performance versus features, the TL-WR1502X really is a no-brainer. Highly recommended.

So a lot to talk about here.So I bought this router for approx. £120 on Feb 24th (Prices correct at the time of purchase).I am with virgin media as my ISP in the UK, and had recently upgraded to their "1 gig" package, as I managed to secure it for quite a good monthly deal, considering it came with broadband and TV etc. This package expects you to receive approx. 1gbps across the line. I typically get about 950 across the line. But the hub 4 was obviously not the right hardware at all, to be able to transfer anywhere near 1gbps to my devices on Wi-Fi.Of course, it makes sense for you to be able to achieve the same capabilities of speed you are getting over the cable on Wi-Fi. You would want your Wi-Fi speeds to be that of Ethernet or somewhat similar because you are paying for such a high bandwidth service. It almost makes it seem there is no point in paying for it since majority of the devices in your network will be over Wi-Fi. Because of this, it does make sense to be able to get a router that is capable of delivering such high speeds. Since your Internet service provider will not provide a router capable of that. I think if you pay for 1 gbps, you will get it via ethernet, but you'll get nowhere near 1gbps with any ISP router at the time of writing.If you are in the same boat as me, then you will want a router that is capable of transferring high amounts of data to lots of different devices around the house on Wi-fi in the same way it could over ethernet. And you will really want that, because you want to be able to use the full capabilities the service that you are paying for provided by your ISP. That was the primary objective. If that isn't you, then this review might not be the right review for you, but nevertheless, its a good read for any sort of shopper in the market for buying a new router.I bought this router as I thought it had the best value vs ASUS competitors, as all ASUS did, was give a good typical catchy branding line of it being a "gaming router", and they get purchases. I also notice that a lot of other brands like Netgear are like this. In my opinion, TP link is probably one of the most value for money brands out there in this market. So if you are looking for a router, no matter what price range you are looking for, TP link is generally brand I would recommend.So before buying this router, the hub 4, with no other devices connected, gave me 250mbps* on the 5Ghz band, and 30-50mbps* on the 2Ghz band. This new router gives me about 900Mbps* on the 5Ghz band, and around 100-200 mbps* on the 2Ghz band.* = Peak speeds. Not average speeds.Now the literal only reason you see that sort of improvement, is because this is a Wi-Fi 6 router. As a Wi-Fi 6 router, it should theoretically, give me 3x the amount that a Wi-Fi 5 router will give in the same setting. However as you can see, it gives considerably more than 3x 250mbps, and it gives 900* which is 50mbps less than ethernet speeds. Pretty impressive for a 5Ghz channel. I got typical expected improvements on the 2.4Ghz channel, which is also good to see.However do not expect a new router to massively improve Wi-Fi range across multiple floors. Yes it covers a wide area, and will give full speed to the same floor, but it doesn't cover a large floor. If you want better range for a large house floor, get a better one than this. If you want signal on multiple floors, you will need a mesh network, so in that case, buying two of these and using one of them per floor might be a good idea. But if you just want to cover around a 10m by 10m floor, this router is perfect for you as it will give high bandwidth to devices on that floor.So for me this is a 5 star router as it did exactly what I expected it to do, as the results of speed was what I expected to get based of how it should have theoretically preformed. But beware, as it might not be right for you, if you need it for any other purpose, other than getting more mbps. Of course, the benefit to you is highly dependent on the ISP speed that is provided. So expect less benefit overall if you switch from a hub 4 or sky box, on a 200mbps connection. However, you will still benefit as long as you have a Wi-Fi 6 device.If this was a helpful review, I would appreciate you to click the "helpful" button below so more shoppers can see it. Have a good day.

In my quest for a travel router for cruise ships I tried GL.INET (great but overly complicated software that you don't really need most of the time, and so much tweaking involved to get capture portal wifi to work), ASUS (I use 5 of their routers at home so I am used to their software, but once again a lot of fiddling to get captive portal wifi to work) and this TP-Link is by far the easiest to setup through captive portal it detects a captive portal is present and bring the screen up automatically if you don't want to spend the first couple of hours trying to get your travel router connected to hotel / ship wifi try this.

My original ISP's router wasn't enough to cover my entire house. This was the first time I've ever bought a router and I'm so glad I did. I have a 15m Ethernet cable that goes from my old router to my new one. I decided to place the new router in the kitchen. My kitchen is in the middle of the house. Before with my old router and in the bedroom furthest away, I would get download speeds of around 10mbps (original speeds of 170/150. With the new router it's around 160/140! Highly recommended.