Huawei E5186 LTE Cat6 Wireless Gateway Review

Aug. 3, 2014 - PRLog -- From 2014, Huawei bring a new 4G router E5186 to its 4G product range, which is expected to mark a quantum leap in the development for 4G equipment. It’s virtual that all of the new standards are on board and will shape new global standards from the end of 2014. For the first time, LTE-Advanced (CAT6) and VoLTE are supported on the same device, that is Huawei E5186 LTE Wireless Gateway. You can read more about the new flagship below.



Features and characteristics of Huawei E5186

 Manufacturer and type designation       Huawei E5186s-22 (http://www.4gltemall.com/huawei-e5186-4g-cat6-802-11ac-lte-cpe.html) (HiSilicon chip)

 Download rate       Up to 300 Mbit/s

 Upload rate       Up to 50 Mbits/s

 Supported LTE Bands:       LTE 2600 MHz / 2100 MHz / 1800 MHz /
900 MHz / 800 MHz (FDD) + LTE 2600 MHz TDD

 LTE-Advanced Support       yes (first time)

 Backward compatible with       HSPA/HSPA+/UMTS (900/2100 MHz); GSM

 MIMO Support       MIMO 2x2

 Connector for external antenna       yes, 2 SMA connectors (Buy Huawei E5186 Antenna (http://www.4gltemall.com/4g-antenna-two-sma-connector.html))

 Category       LTE modem category 6! (CAT6)

 Telephone

 With integrated telephone system       yes, VOIP SIP Client

 Support VoLTE (Voice over LTE)       yes

 Connection for analog phones       yes, 2xRJ11

 DECT       no

 Integrator answering machine       -

 Network | LAN & WLAN

 LAN ports       4 LAN Gigabit ports (RJ45)

 WLAN standards       WLAN 802.11b/g/n/ac for up to 64 users

 5 GHz WLAN support       yes

 Encoding       WEP, WPA, WPA2

 USB       yes, 1 x USB 2.0

 Dimensions / Weight       194 x 177 x 64 mm and 450 grams

 Information material

 Manual       Not available online

 Available       On WWW.4GLTEMALL.COM

LTE Advanced and VoLTE

In spite of the appearance of Huawei E5186 looks like its predecessor Huawei B593, the standard is still the new evolution of the LTE technology.  Many European operator such as O2, Vodafone and Telekom, start deploying the further significant faster LTE-Advanced network from this summer. With the LTE-Advanced technology, the data rate of 225-300 Mbps could be achieved. We also concern about "true" LTE telephone which has not been in use. The so-called VoLTE is very convenient when calling significantly increases. Huawei E5186 could also work at the outdoor environment and is therefore ideally equipped for the future.

Technology at a glance

As already indicated, the wireless capabilities of the E5186 are outstanding. LTE is supported on the band 1/3/7/8/20 and 38 on Huawei E5186s-22. But there is Huawei E5186s-61 which supports different LTE frequency bands. In addition to LTE-Advanced  Category 6 ( CAT6 ), the operation over 3G and 2G is also possible. So all mobile phone types are supported by Huawei E5186. The router also dominates the latest wireless standard AC so that internal networks can be established with a maximum data rate of 1300 Mbps. A bottleneck via WLAN is therefore not to be expected in LTE-Advanced mode.



Connections

On the back of Huawei E5186, there are 4 Gigabit LAN ports (RJ45), two RJ-11 jacks for phones and a USB port. In addition, the power port and an on/off switch are at the side of phone jacks. Two external antennas can also be connected as usual, in case the reception conditions are not sufficient.

Telephone

You will probably never find a DECT connection at Huawei. However, the operation over VOIP is possible on E5186. What is new, as already mentioned, the support of Voice over LTE ( VoLTE ). If the provider offers the LTE technology, calls can thus be handled directly by the contract SIM card via mobile phone. The advantage for customers: more stable connections, call setup in under 2 seconds, and perfect voice quality.

The Huawei E5186 has some OEM version at the leading LTE vendors. Vodafone will soon release the B4000 LTE Gateway (http://www.4gltemall.com/vodafone-b4000-4g-lte-cat6-wifi-...) with Vodafone logo. Probably the Telekom will use the device, but it is not yet known. Here now the E5186 is already available on www.4gltemall.com. If you want it, you could have a check.