{"id":3573,"date":"2016-06-07T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2018-03-24T18:11:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T10:11:26","slug":"huawei-b890-4g-lte-router-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/huawei-b890-4g-lte-router-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei B890 4G LTE Router Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone is so lucky to get fast broadband at home in past time.\u00a0But after getting the new 4G LTE Router Huawei B890, there is possibility to enjoy high surfing speed.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei B890\u00a0LTE Router provides Internet via the mobile network, a solution with 4G in many cases just as good speeds as the fiber experience.\u00a0In addition, it comes with a clever extra feature.\u00a0The router is in fact also a DECT base &#8211; the technology used in the good old wireless landlines.\u00a0The base station has in fact higher power than your phone, and then you can carry mobile calls via DECT phone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/huawei-B890-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3580\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/huawei-B890-1.jpg\" alt=\"huawei B890\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/huawei-B890-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/huawei-B890-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/huawei-B890-1-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can make calls, receive calls, send SMS and do what you could with a regular cell phone.\u00a0Buy you own SIM card and plug into the B890 router, then you will have your own phone number. The only thing you must remember is that you need a SIM card that also supports voice.<\/p>\n<p>Since most subscriptions include free speech, this is not a bad solution.\u00a0The Huawei B890 Smart Hub is especially useful if there are many people using the phone &#8211; for example, children who have not yet own phone, or if the modem is used in a workplace.\u00a0It also gives you the opportunity to have a private phone in the cabin, boat or home office.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/Huawei_B890_Front_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Huawei B890\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huawei B890 4G Router<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Range of up to 300 meters<\/h3>\n<p>If you do not want to spend money on having a separate SIM card or a twin card to the B890 router, you can use the SIM card from your phone, and still be available for talks.\u00a0DECT phone looks enough like a cell phone, but it works only within range of the base station, max 300 meters.<\/p>\n<p>The Huawei B890 router can work in both 3G and 4G, but not on GSM\/2G.\u00a0That means it will not work in areas where you only have EDGE coverage.\u00a0When you talk to your DECT phone, Huawei B890 modem will use 3G.\u00a0You can surf and talk at the same time.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/Huawei_B890_Antenna_Connector_and_WAN_LAN_Ports.jpg\" alt=\"Huawei B890 Antenna Ports and WAN\/LAN Ports\" width=\"700\" height=\"530\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huawei B890 Antenna Ports and WAN\/LAN Ports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The B890 LTE Router supports 4G 800 MHz frequency, in addition to 900\/1800\/2100\/2600 MHz. The maximum download speed is 100 Mbps, while the maximum upload speed is 50 Mbps.\u00a0There are faster LTE Router now, which could support so-called CAT4 modem with max 150 Mbps download, and even LTE Cat6 router which could support peak download speed to 300mbps, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/huawei-e5186-4g-cat6-802-11ac-lte-cpe.html\">Huawei E5186<\/a><\/strong> 4G Router is the first one with LTE Cat6.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the router, there are three LAN ports and 1 WAN port.\u00a0When the SIM card will act as a backup, the WAN is down. In addition, the router provides a USB port that allows you to share external memory or printers.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/Huawei_B890_WPS_button.jpg\" alt=\"Huawei B890 WPS Button\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huawei B890 WPS Button<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The wireless router communicates at 2.4 GHz, but not at 5 GHz.\u00a0This means that the connection can be a bit unstable if there are other wireless networks nearby.<\/p>\n<p>For this test, we got us an external antenna to put on the house wall.\u00a0The external antenna is a 9 dBi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/4g-lte-outdoor-antenna-2-x-sma-connectors.html\">4G panel antenna<\/a>.\u00a0It has 4G in the name of course, means that it supports 4G frequencies, but it also supports 3G and 2G.\u00a0But the Huawei B890 router does not support 2G. It only weighs half a kilo, and a mounting bracket makes installation easy.\u00a0The antenna is directional, so it is advisable to inform about where the signal is strongest before installing it on.\u00a0Best is to place the antenna as high as possible, especially because the highest frequencies attenuated lot of vegetation or house walls. The antenna comes with two five-meter long antenna cables, which could connect directly to the back of the Huawei B890 router.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/Huawei_B890_SIM_Card_slot.jpg\" alt=\"Huawei B890 SIM Card slot\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huawei B890 SIM Card slot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our first attempt was to wander around inside the cabin to find out where the coverage was the best.\u00a0It turned out that on a couple of points in the living room got symbol H+ on the mobile screen.\u00a0We measured download speeds up to 13 Mbps; sometimes, the peak speed could reach 25Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In our test, Huawei B890 wireless router operates fairly undisturbed by other networks and we witnessed 802.11b\/g\/n (at 2.4GHz) as sufficient.\u00a0With the Huawei B890 4G router, we can also follow what happens in the cabin, via IP cameras connected to the wireless network.\u00a0This works fine on 3G.\u00a0There is no problem to flow TV2 Sumo or Netflix in HD quality to your TV, as long as you have enough data available on subscription.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/Huawei_B890_Stick_for_SSID_and_WiFi_key.jpg\" alt=\"Huawei B890 Label\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huawei B890 Label at bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Availability<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/huawei-b890-4g-lte-smart-hub.html\">Huawei B890<\/a> 4G LTE Hub\/router is with very budget price now at www.4gltemall.com, but you can also buy a package that also includes the external antenna.\u00a0But if you prefer to LTE Cat4 router, or even latest LTE cat6 router, you may refer to other models. Here you can check more Huawei latest 4G LTE routers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/4g-wireless-router\/huawei-4g-lte-wifi-router.html\">http:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/4g-wireless-router\/huawei-4g-lte-wifi-router.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone is so lucky to get fast broadband at home in past time.\u00a0But after getting the new 4G LTE Router Huawei B890, there is possibility to enjoy high surfing speed. Huawei B890\u00a0LTE Router provides Internet via the mobile network, a solution with 4G in many cases just as good speeds as the fiber experience.\u00a0In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/huawei-b890-4g-lte-router-test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huawei B890 4G LTE Router Test<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,3],"tags":[1876,1197,2789,2788,1875,2791,2787,2790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4gltemall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}