Cudy 4G AC1200 Wi-Fi 5 Router with SIM Slot, Detachable Antennas, LT500D

I got this router to use at a campground with my RV. The WiFi here is slow and unreliable so we needed a backup solution. I got this to go with a consumer cellphone SIM. We’re in an area with weak cell coverage so I also put up a yagi antenna with 9db gain. I pointed it at the nearest tower 2.4 miles away. With my iPhone alone I was only getting a RSRP in the mid to high 120’s - essentially a dead zone. With the yagi and this router my first try improved RSRP to 114-118. Then the magic happened. After disconnecting the router and then reconnecting it I got a 99 RSRP reading. It had switched from the B2 band to the B12 band. Fortunately this router allows you to manually select the bands to use. The B12 band is great for rural areas like mine as the longer wavelength passes through trees easily and the waves flow with hilly terrain better than 5g frequencies. So I have the router set to use bands B12, B14, and B2. This gets my RSRP to the upper 90’s and RSRQ to 10. It’s a nice, stable connection. Sure, the top speed won’t be as great with this setup but it’s way better than the nearly nothing we had before.

went through two of these by firstnum with no luck, using a verizon sim from an already working hotspot looking to set up wireless for a friend who lives largely away from "civilization" as an upgrade to his old mobile hotspot "puck" Put in Sim, powered up, joined wireless network and verified it was online. as a precaution, went to Cudy's site and got the latest firmware, did speed tests and got 50 + mbps w/o issue. Ironically that was the same speed my laptop gets from my older AC1200 wireless (Vs my hardware connection of 500+) given he's used to getting may 5mb... this is fantastic for him. Very impressed by the interface and internals, lots of options, including adding more of these for a DIY Mesh. If you're looking for a router to run off SIM card or just something that will replace an existing router and give you LTE roll-over this has you covered.

The product does work, it's just doesn't speedtest as fast as a phone does in the same location. It's almost plug and play, it depends on your carrier. If you're one of the big three carriers or whoever this router is compatible with, then it should auto config. My carrier is not one of the big three, it's a MVNO third party so if that's the circumstances, the settings will have to be manually entered for the APN. Luckily it's kind of easy to find the APN settings online on the carrier website. There are only a couple setting needed to get it to work. That's the only hold up I ran into and it's not the fault or the product. The reason I give I give it 3 stars is because it's not as fast as it should be. My phone in the same exact location will speedtest about 80+ mbps down. The router while connecting to it on 5Ghz on the same phone, will speedtest to about 15-20 mbps. The phone is right next to the router doing these speeds. I'll be doing more testing in other areas, but this was tested with what a typical signal strength would be, 3/5 bars, which isn't bad. Last time I checked, 4G LTE are pretty fast and this router has large antennaes to receive the cellular signal, a phone doesn't. I guess you get what you pay for so now I see why people spend hundreds to over 1k dollars to get higher speeds for this market. Overall though, considering the low price compared to the competition, this isn't a bad product. The software logging into the router looks pretty good, I like the options and features. It even has WPA3 for wifi and 5Ghz. For casual users or people that don't need blazing fast speeds, this works. My use case is RV travel and perhaps some other types of travel so I'll be moving a lot with this. Multiple devices will be connected, phones, roku tv, streaming services such as jellyfin, plex, netflix, etc. For 4k content, I don't see this being reliable. For 1080p HD content, I think this works fine. For typical internet usage, this is fine. Just keep in mind that this will not be pulling the same speeds a phone can get from a sim card. For something inexpensive, this is a decent product. For something faster, gotta look at another product and pay more, probably way more.

In the Cudy N300 section I reviewed that modem adding that I had purchased the less expensive N300 as a trial unit to see how cellular internet worked for me. I recently moved my electronics shop to another building on my property and I needed internet in that location. Simple, purchase the LT500D for use in the house and move the N300 to the shop. No need to dig trenches through the lawn or drill through concrete walls. A cheaper simpler way of getting internet into a second location can't be imagined. OK, what about the LT500D? It works as well as the N300 with the advantage of 5G WiFi speeds and detachable antennas if I need the option. I can also transfer sim cards between the modems as data usage requires. Very satisfied.

I tried this product as soon as I have it in my hands. It worked with Panamanian SIM card in Panama but unfortunately it was running from the "shared data" (as a hot-spot), and not with the "unlimited" data from the provider. Therefore, it didn't work as I wanted ideally. I am not sure if in other countries provides bring unlimited shared-data, but that is not the case in Panama and this made me feel dissapointed; nevertheless I had to give it a try. I share this in case you have the same intentions as I had.

We have a mountain cabin that has poor cell service and no internet. I can make a cell call from outside, but not inside the cabin. I bought this to see if the larger antennas would bring in cell service and if not I could use an external antenna. I received the router and installed a sim card from an extra phone I had. WiFi worked great, but not internet. I contact our provider, Consumer Cellular, and was told they would sent a new sim card that would work. I installed the new sim card and it worked without any other setup. I then took the router to our cabin, set it by a window, and we now have WiFi and internet at the cabin. I can remotely look at cameras and adjust the temperature. Very satisfied. Update: I have been using this router for about one and a half years now and am still satisfied with it. I did put up a nice external antenna to get a better signal. I also changed carriers from Consumer Cellular to Google Fi. Part of the reason for the change was that I got a free data SIM so an extra line is no longer required for the router. The Fi data SIM was inserted into the router and all worked without any other setup.

It gives me no joy to report that after many months of struggling with this router I could not get it to work properly for the basic tasks. I've been using it with one SIM chip, two SIMs and even installed a 'beta' version of the embedded software but it regularly drops the signal to the internet interrupting downloads, streaming, VOIP, video calls, etc. The drops can come as often as once an hour but seemingly random. (We use the exact same chips in our phones and other brand routers without this problem) In addition the router never failed over to the 2nd chip in order to pick up the slack when the first slot failed to connect. (Kind of the reason to have the 2nd chip, or so I thought) Finally the customer/tech support was not helpful - ignoring emails for weeks at a time, constantly asking for the exact same information over and over again and never offering any useful information or suggestion leave alone solution after 5 months of communication.

Followed " Alex's comments and got 30mbs down. "So I use this for internet on the road with our RV. I grabbed a sim card from visible and was able to activate it without having to put it into a phone. The listing on Amazon says to set the TTL to 64 and HL to 65, but you want to set them both to 65. It'll be seen on the network as a phone instead of a hotspot. The other thing with visible in the listing, it says to set the apn to vsblinternet but use vzwinternet instead. vsblinternet didn't work getting the sim to connect, but it did with vzwinternet. The other big difference is to set the MTU to 1428 and it increases the speed greatly. The removable 4g lte antennas are nice in case you need to run those antennas outdoors for better reception. The admin interface is normal for people used to work inside of routers. It has all the functionality you want. Only had it for the set up period and will give it a more thorough test soon. 25 people found this helpful"

I live in an area with no landline internet (or phone) access. Mobile internet is available, but the signal quality is often poor to non-existent, and is usually slow. Weather is a major factor in signal quality, and the weather changes a *lot* where I live. I have an iPhone and an Android phone that I can use as hotspots, but, despite living in a small home, even the WiFi coverage is flaky. I’ve tried using cheap (but reputable brand) WiFi extenders but didn’t notice any improvement in coverage or performance. After a particularly frustrating set of weather, I got desperate enough to seek another solution to mobile phone hotspotting. I first checked if any terrestrial ISPs had brought civilisation to my neck of the woods, but no such luck. I even considered Starlink but the monthly price is a little out of my financial reach (only just, I’d have gone for it if it were 25% cheaper). So, I looked for an alternative and found the Cudy.. Setup was trivial. I transferred the SIM from my Android phone to the Cudy, screwed on the two interchangeable antennae, plugged the Cudy into its power supply, and was up and running within seconds. Brilliant. So far, I have experienced no dropouts or loss of signal, and I can pick up WiFi throughout my home without any connectivity problems. I only wish I’d bought Cudy sooner! (Yes, I’m so pleased with the improvement that I’ve named the router)

Perfecto, desde que lo he puesto no falla la cobertura y el Internet va bastante estable sin duda una buena compra . Lo volveré a comprar para otro sitio

Le setup est assez facile. Les 2 niveaux (débutant/expert) permet de le configurer comme on veut.

Très simple a configurer et fonctionne parfaitement.

Il router funziona benissimo, sim card e si collega perfettamente alla rete cellulare. Usato in una zona dove la copertura telefonica è appena sufficiente e non ci sono linee per internet fisso a casa nemmeno la vecchia ADSL. Il router prende e consente di navigare e anche vedere film e serie tv in streaming.