D-Link DWR-978 5G AC2600 Wi-Fi Router, Super Fast 5G Download Up to 1.6 Gbps, AC2600 Wi-Fi, MU-MIMO, 4 x Gigabit Port, Gigabit Internet Port, Removable External Antennas, Unlocked for All Networks

I am in a week 5g area and use external antenners, and on the odd occation i get a 5G signal but only get 56 to 70Mbps down but and I say BUT if you do 4g only i end up with (sometimes) 220 - 240 Mbps this is with EE again in a lowish area but My antenners are quite large.. Mostly it between 120 and 160Mbps and 40-60upload on average. The only niggly thing which i am not sure if its the router or ee is that I have to reset it on a daily basis ( you can set it manually to do thisd) to keep a decent signal.. other than that, I used to have a mr600 v2 which gave me a max of 88Mbps and I though that was good :) Would I recomend it. For 4G OH yes most defenatly, for 5G well seeing as I don't have a very good 5G signal thats a dificult one but I am sure if I did have a 5G signal it would not dissapoint.

I live in a semi-rural area just outside of London with no FTTP available to me. I have a top-tier Vodafone 5G mobile internet subscription. The local 5G mast is approx 1 mile away and I have line-of-sight to it from my house. I also have an external 5G antenna pointing directly at the mast, connected to the router's MIMO inputs with some pretty tough cables. Everything should be set up perfectly for a stable and fast mobile internet. I've used D-Link products quite extensively in the past (mainly network switched) and had no problems, so although this router looks 'dated' I trusted the brand. It was fairly cheap compared other routers at the time and I thought I could balance reliability and price with the D-Link. What a mistake. I've owned it for 2 months and had nothing but trouble. Like other reviews here, I'm seeing drop-outs, weak 4-and-5G signal (even with my external antenna!), no 5G signal at all when using the router's own 5G antennas, frequent freezes, etc. The feature set is appalling for any modern router: * No static DHCP reservation * No support for security standards above WPA2 (even my iPhone keeps warning me that the network's security is weak) * No client list page, just a small pane on the router's admin panel homepage * No option to install a VPN * In-built 'speedtest' feature doesn't work - it always says "failed". The feature has been removed from recent documentation updates but it's still in the router's menu * No firmware updates available (apart from a minor patch version a long time ago) * The router body is huge, top-heavy, and cannot be wall-mounted * The 4 ethernet ports are in the most awful position, and the stand doesn't have cut-outs for the cable. So you have to decide between passing the cable under the stand and un-balancing the entire router until it falls on its face, or bending your cable into an unnatural 90-degree shape so you can still keep the router upright * System log doesn’t log anything useful at all, and it appears to get wiped when the router is rebooted As for specific problems with mine: * The 5G light doesn't light up on the front hardware panel, even though the admin page tells me I have a signal * It drops the connection so frequently, I've had to set it to reboot early every morning * It often freezes while my wife and I are both on conference calls * One weekend it had such awful performance I went into the admin panel to try debugging, and I saw a whole load of garbled data pre-filled in the WAN connection parameters form * The admin panel stops responding from time-to-time * Even with my external antenna pointing at a mast close-by, the strongest 5G signal I can get is "3 bars" at -105dbm * Sometimes it doesn't recover from its daily scheduled reboot and it sits with its lights off like an expensive white plastic brick until I hard-reboot it by pulling the plug. It 'bricked' itself again this morning and I've had enough, which is why I've come back to leave this review. I'm now outside of the Amazon return window so I don't even know if I'll be able to get my money back. I'm so desperate for a reliable router that I've ordered a TP-Link to arrive today. The D-Link will probably sit gathering dust in my garage for several years as a monument to a costly mistake, until enough time has passed that I don't feel shame and anxiety any more (and that my wife has forgotten about how much money I spent on it), and I can take it to the dump.

I would have given it 5 stars but it was late delivery for prime membership. All that said I use it for 5g on a SIM card. I’m in a very good area for 5g so I can’t complain about it. Very well made and I like it. Only thing I don’t like is there’s no app. In QR scan code on it to add to the D-Link app and when I go to add device it’s not listed to add manually. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It was excellent

Smarty SIM card can work, fast 5G router Small expensive, but suitable for my needs without broadband contract.

Speed is good whilst connected but has locked up once needing a reboot and has to be reconnected to the internet via the portal regularly as it disconnects every couple of days

It initially connected to the Three network OK but after about 30 minutes the speed fell from 50mps to 3mps maximum and I couldn't get any improvement even after several full resets. Then I started get an error message saying my new HP ZBook is unable to connect to the Wi-Fi network (my old copper wifi connects fine) so that decided the fate of the unit. Wi-Fi coverage was average, placing it in the hall at the centre of a 4 bed 1930's house gave a pretty reasonable signal everywhere but because it's a 5g router it needed to be at the back of the house to get a fast network connection which left the front rooms without a useable signal. This unit doesn't have mesh technology so you can't add a wireless extender. First thing to note is you need to connect via a cat5 cable to configure it, most laptops don't have this but fortunately my USB C monitor does, you can't use an app to set it up. The admin console is pretty much the same as my 10 year old D-Link ADSL modem/router and takes 30 seconds to process any changes but the firmware seems stuck on V 1.0 and won't upgrade, on such an old model of router seems strange that it's on V1 from the factory. Full system reset both using the console and also the reset button hasn't helped to resolve any of the issues. Also worth noting the sim slot is for a full size, they do provide a carrier for a micro sim but it's pretty rubbish and I'm now struggling to get my sim card out of the device, another annoyance is the power cable is ridiculously short. Although it's 5g it feels really dated, the user interface is clunky and the lack of an app really doesn't help it.

Excellent worked straight out the box and able to pick up the weak signal that my previous router could not.

Le dernier routeur 5G de chez D-Link, un appareil imposant avec de bonnes finitions et des antennes d'excellente qualité. Malheureusement trop cher pour ce qu'il propose, la partie logicielle est une horreur et mérite des mises à jour. L'interface manque cruellement d'options et les temps de chargement sont extrêmement longs. Beaucoup de coupures vu qu'il est impossible de forcer une bande précise, je passe de la 5G à la 4G toutes les 30 minutes. Très déçu des débits que ce soit en fausse 5G Free 700MHz ou en 4G à 600 mètres de l'antenne à la campagne. Le reboot du routeur via l'interface bug complètement et coupe toute connexion wifi ou ethernet, redémarrage à la main obligatoire. Service après-vente D-Link incompétent, qui ne fait que répéter ce qu'on trouve dans la FAQ du site sans jamais donner de réponse concrète. Pour 500€ je ne recommande pas cet appareil, la partie logicielle est trop jeune et aucune info sur les futures mises à jour. Mon B715s quatre fois moins cher est bien plus aboutis, performant et configurable facilement avec des logiciels dédiés.

AGGIORNAMENTO: Ho contatto il supporto d-link, mi hanno fornito un router sostitutivo con lo stesso identifico problema, si resetta ogni tot di ore, ho fatto il resto, sconsiglio l'acquisto. Il router si blocca 1 o 2 volte al giorno in 5G, se fai il reboot dal sito di amministrazione si blocca il wifi. Sotto rete 5G windtre aggrega 3 bande, in 4G né aggrega 4. La velocità massima di circa 200 mega è la stessa sia in 4g che 5g, in 5G upload è più alto, massimo 70 mega. Per migliorare la stabilità sto testando solo il modalità 4G nella speranza che non si resetta ogni giorno. Quando si blocca si deve riavviare manualmente. Il router costa tanto, ci sono alternative più economiche.. Forse è un problema di compatibilità con la rete 5g di windtre? Non ho modo di testare. In linea di massima sembra un po' un prodotto in beta testing. Comunque, cerco di tenerlo in modalità solo 4G, andare a 200 mega fa comodo.

Ich hatte leider mehrfach Probleme mit dem Gerät. 1. Im 2,4ghz WLAN konnte sich KEIN Smart-Home Gerät koppeln (4 Geräte insgesamt). Mit mehreren anderen Routern im 2,4ghz ohne Probleme getestet. 2. Plug & Play mit der Sim-Karte nicht möglich. Mann musste ewig konfigurieren, bis dass die Internetverbindung aufgebaut wurde. 3. Sim-Karte war NICHT "always on", sodass ich öfters die Meldung erhalten habe, dass das WLAN keine Verbindung zum Internet hat. 4. Teilweise mussten sich Endgeräte im Webportal anmelden, um ins Internet zu gelangen. "Anmeldung erforderlich". Dies war aber auch sporadisch. Hatte mich über das Gerät eigentlich gefreut, aber wurde persönlich sehr enttäuscht. Bin nun auf 4G umgestiegen und klappt nun alles einwandfrei.

This is an overpriced product. For this money, you cannot even have DHCP reservation. I needed a custom firmware to get 4G/5G working more than 3 days in a row (Orange in France, nothing fancy). Now it still fails every 20 days or so. Not a single update since I bought it. Even the button to check for update is not working. Wifi is really bad. I had to buy CPL to get decent bandwitdh. Else it was dropping to 0 from time to time. Tested with 2 Macs, even a 2021 M1 pro max. Does not worth money at all. A shame for a brand like D-link.

Ungefähr alle 6 Stunden kommt es zu Internetausfällen und das Internetsignal kommt erst wieder, wenn der Router neu gestartet wird.... Überhaupt nicht kaufen