Cudy AC1200 Dual Band Unlocked 4G LTE Modem Router with SIM Card Slot, 1200Mbps Mesh WiFi, 5dBi High Gain Antennas, DDNS, VPN, Cloudflare, LT500

This device is awesome. Works great and good signal. I never knew you could do this with a phone SIM card. I end up cutting or Internet do it to be too expensive. I had a free mobile line which I never use. I came across this device and I order a SIM card from my provider. And boy let me tell you this router works excellent. A so easy to set up just plug and play.

Easy setup. Plug card in, plug unit in and it works great on TMobile.

Very pleased with this device so far. I use a cellular SIM card for internet through this and it is working exceptionally well so far.I highly recommend this if you live in a rural area and normal home routers aren't available for coverage.

I bought the product because it is advertised to work in the Americas, WRONG. I spent nearly a month trouble shooting, till I concluded that I needed to return the product.The instructions of the device did not match what I was seeing on my computer, they were totally inadequate in Chile. It takes more than having the ability for the modem/router to work in Latin America to sell the product as working in all the Americas. You need to be able to configure it. I am an end user, not an internet specialist who can get into the weeds to set the correct parameters to the device, and in Latin America it is very difficult finding someone who knows how to do it. The product may be plug-and-play in the US, but definitely not in Chile, and probably not anywhere in Latin America.I changed my internet provider, because they did not help me configuring the product, but that did not solve the issues. If one looses a signal, which happens a lot in remote or rural areas, I was told by the second internet provider that I need to reset the device and the configurations went out the window. Since it took about twenty (not an exageration) to get to speak to someone who knew how to do it, I gave up. I wasn't going to go through that every time that I lost a signal, and the provider who set the right configurations did that from their office without telling me what they did. Someone told me that if they tell you how to configure the product, they might be fearful that you will know how to get the service without having to pay. I have no idea if this is correct, but it might be the reason why tech support of the internet provider do not know how to do it.Tech support at Cudy works only by email, no phone, and Monday through Friday on a different time zone, probably Asia, so at best my queries were answered the next day. That is very tough when you are without an internet connection and you are in a remote area where you need the internet to conduct all your personal business. One needs a product that is plug-and-play.When I researched the device I was told that the signal extender, which I did not need, came with it. I took it since "it comes with it" implies that it is free of charge; it was not. I had to pay not only the product that I did not need, but import fees for it too. I supposed to get free shipping, I paid US$23.44.If you are thinking of buying this product for use in Latin America from Latin America you will need to pay for Import fees; in Chile they were US$38.01. To return the product it cost me US$65.70. Amazon gets discounts which you as the end user will not get when you return the product. MercadoLibre which is the Latin American version of Amazon sends you labels with the shipping charge included. That is definitely something that Amazon needs to emulate, because they are going to have to return the shipping costs to me. That's also where you as a buyer probably need to go to buy a modem/router if you are going to use it in Latin America.The product itself is probably very good, but all these other issues are very significant factors which don't appear to have been addressed at Cudy, so that I do not recommend that you purchase the product unless you know exactly how to configure the modem/router yourself. If you are travelling through Latin America and you will be going through various countries, at least you got a warning from me which is more than I got.

After much research, we purchased this product based on how we were going to use it.. Home use only.We have two cellular carrier that work in our neck of the woods.. AT&T (Good signal) and Verizon (Poor signal)Pros:1. Setup is easy.. Went to AT&T, purchased a plan, threw in the sim, and it worked. It picked up the cellular signal okay when we got home.An average of 15mbps (21 at beginning of the month; 11 by the end of the month.)2. BEST option for those who live in a "true" rural area where the only option is Dish Network (terribly expensive)3. Wireless router feature worked well under 1k sq ft4. Price point for device and cellular service is unbeatable.Cons:1. No Router app.Web interface is NOT user friendly.Downloaded an app (Android) that interfaces well - "Any Router Admin Setup: AutoLogin 192.168" by Tech Tool2. Based on today's standard and the price we paid for this a month ago, this should be a 5g router and not limited to 4g.3. Upgrading the firmware is ambiguous - Please list ALL changes so users can make an informed decision.4. Wireless signal degrades beyond an 800 sq ft area.Up to 800 sq ft - Excellent Signal800 - 900 sq ft - Good Signal900 - 1000 sq ft - Fair Signal1k - 1200 sq ft - Weak Signal1200 - 1500 sq ft - Intermittent Signal1500 sq ft & beyond - No SignalConclusion:All in all we are pleased, we have decent internet service at a reasonable price. Would definitely recommend for those need a home router.

This is hands down, one of the most easy to use routers, that I have ever seen. You simply pop in your sim card, connect to the network, it pops up the web page, and you select the options you want, done. I love that it has preconfigured APN's to choose from, without having to hunt down that option in menus, and fight against programming one in, like my CPE-0001 cellular router.The menu layout, options, telemetrics, are all extremely well laid out, easy to understand, easy to edit, change.I went from a CPE-0001 LTE router to an AT&T Unite Explore/Netgear AC hotspot, to this router, and immediately I was getting much better speeds, more consistent connections and traffic, and had zero issues connecting range extenders, devices. I ended up not even needing the range extenders, as this one has roughly double to triple the output range as my previous routers.If you are stuck in a rural area with no real options for broadband Internet, this is the router you need. Buy an unlimited cellular data plan SIM, pop it in this router, and voila, you have Internet, that beats the snot out of Hughes net and viasat, for way cheaper and way more useable data. If you can get the 5g version, and have towers remotely near you, you'll get near broadband speeds, but face the usual data caps with throttling after around 500-800gb. If you do go that route these Cudy routers just can't be beat IMO for the price and ease of use.