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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Bought this as broadband speeds where I was moving to were abysmal, and I thought it would have us up and running (working from home) faster. I have line of sight to my nearest tower, which is only 4g, so I'm only getting 66mbs down and 30mbs up - still better than the cabled broadband. I did get faster speeds at my old house. However, on a very regular basis, it disconnects from the mobile tower and I have to manually reconnect which can be quite slow. It has been so unreliable that my family threatened revolt if we didn't switch to cabled internet. The interface isn't as good as tp-link routers use - you can't set a static IP address easily for example. Now we are using cabled internet I might have a play with it too see if I can get it to work better - this was something I couldn't do when the family were using it as it took such an inordinate amount of time to boot up and connect.

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

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.

nachdem leider an meiner Adresse nur 16MBit ADSL buchbar sind (es sei denn, ich hole mir einen DTAG Knebel VDSL Vertrag) habe ich mich entschieden nur LTE/5G zu nutzen. Hierzu nutze ich eine DTAG 5G unlimitierte Datenkarte. Der DWR-978 läuft in Standardeinstellungen (nur LAN IP, Passwort & WLAN wurden angepasst) vor meiner Firewall. Ich mache somit ein NAT-behind-NAT (Double NAT) für mein Heimnetz. Der DWR-978 hat, entgegen all meiner anderen LTE Router, noch einen normalen SIM Karten Slot (müsste standard SIM sein, ansonsten MICRO SIM). Die Karte lässt sich nur in der richtigen Richtung/Position einschieben und fixieren. Ein kleiner negativer Punkt ist mir aufgefallen, dass die SIM Karte in der WEB-GUI nicht korrekt angezeigt wird. Hier hat es geholfen, das WAN APN Profil kurz auf Manuell umzustellen und dann wieder zurück auf Auto, und die SIM wurde korrekt erkannt. Hoffentlich wird dies in eine neueren Firmware auch noch angepasst. Bisher, nach 2 Tagen Nutzung, kann ich nur sagen, dass das Gerät stabil ist. Es liegen konstant ca. 250MBit per 5G in meinem Netz an. Alles in Allem kann ich das Gerät weiterempfehlen.

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.