Guys, this package can be used effectively in ZTE MU5120 portable 5G router ya?
10,000 mAH, ~16 hours battery operation & can use as 18W powerbank as well.

~RM1.6k at shopeepee/Lazatda



Because i’m frequent outstation to penang and KL.

So it has true unlimited? Or will have FUP of 1TB?
Difference between the umobile rm68 postpaid package?

I am quite impressed with 5G speed. So far i got YES 5G Power 35 used at at my office although didn’t have 5G coverage yet. 100GB data quota, hotspot quota takes from main data quota.

Then i have unifi 5G postpaid 65 used in my ipad pro M1 12.9 5G. 60GB data quota + hotspot quota 10GB only though.
If use hotspot with my laptop, that 10GB is definitely not enough for work

I’m more of a future proof guy. Don’t mind spending some money to use for years to come.

Appreciate your inputs guys.

yes can lock.
May i ask, U Home 5G is using which band that can offer best 5G speed?

assuming you use max 30GB per day.
10 days = ~300GB
30 days = ~900GB.

ok la the 1000GB allocation is enough for your needs what?

if not, need to topup rm30 for additional 1000GB.

ZTE MU5210

Tested for a week now.
Bought at Shopee for RM1.6k. Search for sing4g shop.
Size is almost the same as my iphone 8 plus. Not that heavy, ~240gram and can function as 18W PD powerbank too.
When battery reaches 10%, it will shutdown the powerbank function.
Can lock to Band 77,78 as per recommendation, but i just use Auto mode only.
10,000mAH, can last about ~16 hours of operation, depending on how many devices & users connected. Max 32 users on 2.4ghz, 32 users on 5Ghz, totalling to 64 users.
So far no overheat or 5G speed drop due to heat issue. Just warm only.

Didn’t really use more than 4 hours so i can’t really say about the long lasting battery life.
When used after 4 hours on my 4 devices (2 iphones, ipad & windows laptop), battery life shown on screen was about 74%.

But from what i read on the manual, it’s NOT recommended to use the USBC charger while operating ala fixed 5G router type like those big towering routers.
It will degrade battery life.

Average 5G speed i get is as below at Jitra Kedah:

DL: 500Mbps
UL: 70Mbps

Average 4G speed when i go places where no 5G coverage

DL: 30Mbps
UL: 10Mbps

I believe this portable 5G router is just what i really need for travelling to KL, Penang for work purpose.
Just need to check for umobile 5G coverage on map then it’s good to go.

Will write a proper thorough review on Review Section when i have the time.

This post has been edited by Zaryl: Jul 24 2023, 12:20 PM

Do you use 5G solely as main internet source for your house? Or got fiber fixed line?

If you shut down the 5G router at night before sleep, then your CCTVs will not work? And other IoTs in your house?

hi sifus,

just took umobile 5g together with the ZTE MC888s router black color(contract for 2 years) yesterday.

so far been testing almost a day, and the nearest 5G tower is just behind my house, about ~100m, direct LoS.

but average speedtest i get is <150Mbps DL, 20Mbps UL at my parents' house in Klang area.

i checked the speedtest pattern,

afternoon - got ~130Mbps
evening - ~25Mbps
midnight - ~35Mbps

latency wise, ~30-50ms.

this is very unacceptable. But i could easily get ~500Mbps at my home in Jitra kedah or Penang though via ZTE MU5120 5G portable router ( i have another U5G simcard).

all settings are by default, except i changed the wifi password of course.
so I was thinking to buy another 5G router on shopee.

so Zyxel 3UK NR5103E v2 comes to mind. This one using Qualcomm or Mediatek chip ya?
Saw TPLink X50 5G but the price is kinda steep.

Didn't want to terminate to pay the penalty obviously. So i just continue using this package like normal.

i shall make the ZTE MC888s as a spare router in case i could use this better at other places using my another U5G simcard.

Actually my parents' house has unifi 100Mbps. But it's kinda slow because a lot of devices are using it and my little nephews are here too. Playing roblox, ML and what not makes the overall internet speed slower.

hence I took the decision to get myself a 5G simcard and router.

I gave the ZTE MU5210 to my wife as she frequent outstations for work.


Tried different placement and voila, i think I finally got it.
This time i put the ZTE MC888s router LITERALLY ON THE WINDOW itself. Perhaps windows somewhat amplified the signal and act as a natural signal booster?

and the speedtest difference is night & day!

But i worry the router will get fried real quick soon, seeing the window faced sunlight and the room is kinda hot.
Gotta put a fan there for improvised cooling

Speedtest before


Speedtest after


Circled is the 5G tower just behind my house, about ~100m or so



But i wonder if i do get the Zyxcel NR5103E v2 or similar powerful 5G router, i would get >~300Mbps ya?

This post has been edited by Zaryl: May 24 2024, 06:47 PM

Ok now that the 5G speed problem was resolved after correct placement, now i faced another problem:

ZTE MC888s will keep on DC on certain time and WiFi SSID will reappear after 1-2 minutes.
the DC frequency sometimes vary; sometime it will DC after an hour, then sometime few hours.

I already put a 16” Khind table fan set at speed 2 and aim straight at it.
I guess the router overheats and it forced itself to auto restart?

But the speed still fast, although now it’s only average at ~150Mbps after auto restart. Before this ~230-280Mbps easy.

So, it’s time for me to make that Zyxel NR5103E v2 5G router purchase then? Cooling is good, never auto restart?

This post has been edited by Zaryl: May 24 2024, 03:19 PM

Black color one.

Software version: V1.0.0B02
Hardware version: HW1.0

after getting the router, i immediately disable auto update and never bother to check for update manually.

all settings are by default.

5G signal strength: -85dB
5G bar: Full 5 bars

if i do TURN OFF the WiFi and let say, i just use a direct LAN cable directly to my laptop or pc, the router won't restart anymore?

or rather, if i just simply connect to my PS4 Pro LAN port, router won't DC and restart yes?

if so, i will go to nearest pc shop tomorrow and get a ~5 meter LAN cable to run

Tried 3 round of Battlefield 5 multiplayer game. Using WiFi, the speed is not bad and i surprisingly i got NAT 2 connection, which is very good. i can play 2 out of 3 rounds. 1 round took like ~30mins, so 2 rounds around 1 hour.

Round 3 I was DC due to the router restarted itself as usual.

This post has been edited by Zaryl: May 25 2024, 02:51 AM

nope didn't set it.

in the Advanced Setting, the Awake feature is turn off.
but i'm not sure if there are other similar settings that i might didn't find.

in my case, the router will lose the WiFi LED indicator, then after 1-2 minutes, it will appear, and i can connect again to the internet.

but you mentioned a solution to "turn off the Wifi and connect to another old router as AP", you never experienced auto-reboot/hang at all?

PS - tried to put WiFi coverage settings to Medium range as it used 50% power. See whether no more hangs/WiFI auto restart after this

This post has been edited by Zaryl: May 25 2024, 10:41 AM

any auto DC so far?

btw i've made up a few auto DC patterns:

First time online: ~10 hours (placement before at windows 23/5)
2nd: ~6 hours (after placement at windows 24/5)
3rd: ~8 hours (236am-1050am 25/5)
4th: ~12 hours (1050am-1102pm 25/5)
5th: ~2 hours (1102pm-1250am 25/5)
6th: ~12 hours (1250am-1140am 26/5)

Time to find my old router and try to make setup like andrekua2 pointed out before.

ZTE MC888s 5G (turn off WiFi) -> old router acts as AP & broadcast WiFi -> devices

hopefully won't have anymore auto DC.

could you please advise on how to make the old router act as AP?

I have a DLink DVG F245 Unifi router.

so far i connected from ZTE MC888s LAN port 1 to DVG WAN port, unfortunately no internet.
Already turned off WiFi in ZTE.
Set DVG to AP mode (inside got AP, AP+MESH & MESH modes)
Set default DVG router IP address to 192.168.0.2 instead of 1 at the back.

What are the settings for a typical routers to act as AP ya?

I tried disabling DHCP in DVG but still no internet.
then i saw PPPoE settings, my username & password still uses the unifi one.

should i change this?
But I didn't have the full details though.

When i read at umobile FB group, they say everything is done automatic.

thanks.

did the experiment yesterday around 630pm and unfortunately, the ZTE 5G router still auto reboot, causing my Dlink DVG AP router to cease function for some time before it could function again.

this time, ZTE with Wifi function switched OFF -> DLink DVG F245 AP Router method could only lasted about ~6 hours before auto reboot this time.

So my hypotheses are:

1. ZTE MC888s is unreliable, couldn't last for at least 24 hours before auto reboot. Average around ~8 hours before it will auto reboot
2. something is wrong with the nearby 5G tower
3. 5G line is not very stable recently

I vouched for hypotheses #3, but this could be case-by-case basis though.


So the only solution is to try getting yet another reliable 5G router. In umobile FB group, many recommended Nokia Fastmile 5G router.

Appreciate if you & others could recommend me a very good, reliable, will not auto reboot 5G router. My budget is <RM800.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by Zaryl: May 27 2024, 01:38 AM

nice!

for uptime, could you please show us the Detailed Info page? scroll to bottom and you can see the timer.

it's right at the bottom of the main page when you entered admin website.

i'm having the same router as yours too, but it keeps on auto rebooting on certain times.

longest uptime it has was 12 hours.
shortest was 2 minutes.

i placed literally at the windows itself.
the room is quite hot without AC and fan it's ~32C.

but i reckon the router operating will be around ~36-37C (not exceeding 40C). Didn't have the digital thermometer/thermal reader gun to test though.

i am contemplating to buy the Nokia FastMile 3 5G router, seeing that many good reviews from people in Umobile local FB community.

This post has been edited by Zaryl: May 30 2024, 12:26 PM

not bad man!

your uptime is around 2.7 days (65hours) without auto rebooting.

mine the longest was about 14 hours yesterday LOL

yours lagi power bro!

your router is the one with the EE logo or the 3 UK?

yes i do think that is the case.

well, i could live with this limitations. because my parents' house still got the 100Mbps unifi i can rely on should Umobile 5G went down on certain times.

but I can't wait to test at my home in jitra. Hopefully the 5G signal there is stable and not too congested compare to klang here.

AFAIK, there are only 2 models given:

ZTE MC888s
Kaon AX1500

Nope. they will give based on availability.

we cannot choose which model we prefer.