Alcatel 5G EE wifi portable router supports LAN Rj45 network cable interface battery 6460 mA

The 5GEE WiFi from EE is a mobile broadband device, meaning that it’s designed to get your gadgets online while you’re on the move. You can use it at home, but you’d be better off with a dedicated 5G home broadcast device for that.

For mobile broadband though the 5GEE WiFi has a lot going for it, including the ability to get up to 64 devices online at once, and support for Wi-Fi 6.

In fact, on paper it’s a lot better than most mobile broadband devices – both 5G and 4G ones, but does it hold up in practice? Read on to find out.

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The most notable feature of the 5GEE WiFi is that it supports up to 64 simultaneous connections at once. That’s a remarkably high number for a mobile broadband device – some 5G rivals top out at 20, and many 4G options top out at just 10.

64 is more the sort of number you’d expect from a home broadband device, not least because most people would be hard pushed to take advantage of that when out and about, unless you want to share your Wi-Fi with everyone in the café or train you’re in. Still, it’s a reassuringly large number.

The EE 5GEE WiFi has some other decent specs too, including a 30-metre Wi-Fi range, so you don’t need to stay glued to it to keep connected, and support for Wi-Fi 6, which the company claims will help improve the 5GEE WiFi’s efficiency in heavy bandwidth situations. So this is the sort of device that should never let you down.

One perhaps disappointing spec is that it only has one ethernet port, so you can only get one wired connection at a time. But for most people that probably won’t be a problem, since most connected gadgets support and are just fine on Wi-Fi.

As for the battery, that’s 6,460mAh, which is a reasonable size but nothing amazing – the Huawei 5G Pocket Hotspot Pro for example has an 8,000mAh one. Still, it should last you for a good long while if you’re only connecting it to one or two devices at a time. Make full use of those 64 simultaneous connections though and we’d expect you’ll probably need to plug in before too long.