GL.iNet GL-X3000 (Spitz AX) 5G NR AX3000 Cellular Gateway Router, Wi-Fi 6, Detachable Antennas, Dual-SIM, RV, T-Mobile & AT&T IoT Device Certified

Finalmente un prodotto che merita una recensione un pò più precisa visti i costi e obiettivo dell'acquisto Vado subito dritto al punto: perfetto per la mia esigenza di failover immediato da rete fibra a rete cellulare e ritorno alla connessione principale. Solo questo per me e per il mio caso specifico vale la spesa, visto che avevo necessità di un prodotto del genere e lo Spitz GL.iNet fa esattamente, e molto bene, quello che promette. Uso questo router in un contesto reale con NVR (videosorveglianza IP CAM non cablata e con alcune dipendenze cloud), dove perdere la connessione significa perdere eventi, notifiche e accesso remoto, anche a causa dell’instabilità di alcune camere legate appunto al cloud Tuya/Smart Life. Con lo Spitz il passaggio da fibra a rete cellulare è praticamente istantaneo: non ho perso frame, non ho perso eventi e, lato software, è come se la connessione non fosse mai caduta. Anche le camere restano stabili: la presenza continua di internet evita che vadano in “crisi”. Qui il failover non è marketing: funziona davvero, e anche molto bene. Mi aspettavo problemi lato NVR (freeze, schermate nere durante il cambio rete), invece nessuna interruzione visibile. Questo, nel mio caso, è oro. Per altri tipi di stream ad esempio uno streaming di una webradio ho notato la disconnessione e riconversione con un "bucho" sullo stream di almeno 5/10 secondi. Configurazione: È un dispositivo decisamente più avanzato rispetto ai classici modem/router consumer. Non è il tipico “attacca e vai”, ma proprio per questo offre un livello di controllo molto superiore: multi-WAN, priorità delle connessioni, controlli di connettività, VPN, AdGuard e molto altro. Se sai dove mettere le mani, puoi costruirti una rete estremamente solida e personalizzata. Specifico che non è un modem fibra, ma un router con modem LTE/5G integrato con 2 slot Sim e un sistema Failover integrato di buon livello considerando utilizzo consumer del dispostitivo Interfaccia: L’interfaccia di controllo è veloce, reattiva e ben organizzata. La dashboard è completa e chiara, con tutte le informazioni principali subito visibili. Nonostante le tante opzioni disponibili, non risulta confusa e permette di lavorare in modo preciso. Anche le app, Android e iOS sono veloci, complete e perfettamente funzionante. Stabilità: Dopo l’installazione ho fatto diversi test reali, anche forzando disconnessioni della fibra. Il sistema resta operativo senza interruzioni percepibili almeno lato NVR e camere IP wifi. Come detto sopra on traffico continuo attivo come ad esempio stream audio di una webradio il passaggio ha delle tempistiche quantificabile in 10 ma anche 15 secondi di default e poi riprende la normale erogazione Uso combinato: Io lo utilizzo insieme al modem/router principale (Fastgate), sul quale ho disabilitato il Wi-Fi. Lo Spitz gestisce il Wi-Fi e il fallback su SIM. Questo approccio è molto efficace: sfrutti la fibra quando disponibile e hai una rete cellulare pronta a subentrare immediatamente. SIM e rete mobile: Il doppio slot SIM è un valore aggiunto importante. Permette di usare due operatori diversi e aumentare ulteriormente la resilienza della connessione. Da considerare ovviamente i costi del piano dati associato alle SIM: meglio scegliere operatori affidabili per avere certezze a discapito dei costi di gestione. Il fatto di avere un sistema Failover sulla propria connessione internet presuppone costi maggiori Testato con sim 5G Vodafone e tutto funzionante Prestazioni Wi-Fi: Il Wi-Fi è buono e supporta Wi-Fi 6, ma non è il punto principale del prodotto. Questo dispositivo nasce per garantire continuità e gestione avanzata della rete. Se serve copertura Wi-Fi top, meglio affiancare access point dedicati. Funzioni: Le funzionalità sono molte e c’è ampio margine di personalizzazione. È un prodotto che permette di “smanettare” e adattare la rete alle proprie esigenze. Consumi e temperatura: Scalda leggermente, ma è normale per un dispositivo sempre attivo con modem integrato. Nessun problema riscontrato in uso reale. Contro: - Non è completamente plug & play per utenti inesperti (anche se ci sono setup guidati) - Interfaccia tecnica (per qualcuno potrebbe essere complessa) - Prezzo non basso, ma coerente con le funzionalità offerte Conclusione: Se cercate un router semplice, non è questo. Se cercate continuità reale, controllo e affidabilità, allora è un prodotto centrato. Per chi ha esigenze come videosorveglianza, accesso remoto o sistemi che devono restare sempre online, fa esattamente quello che promette — e lo fa molto molto bene. Promosso!

I don't often write reviews but having tried many different 4G/5G routers, I wanted to save you time by recommending this this GL.iNet router, which I have found to be by far the best. Firstly, the speed is between 3X and 10X faster than the others out of the box but using an external 4-way MiMo antenna doubles the speed again and provides and excellent broadband service in a a rural area with a less than ideal 4G signal. It is easy to set up but there are a lot of additional features, such as VPNs, the ability to tether to another network, and dual SIM failover to name a few. After nearly 2 years, it has been very stable and reliable until a couple of weeks ago when it suddenly stopped working. Having a good product is one thing but the support provided by GL.iNet has been superb. The support team are knowledgeable and responsive and after some troubleshooting sent out a replacement unit. It is not the cheapest 5G router by any means but if you are looking for a good performing router particularly as a replacement for a fixed line service if it isn't great in your area then look no further. The support is excellent and they come with a 24 month warranty.

buy it i use it and are more then happy getting 1.5-1.6gbps on 5g in sweden

Second update: I found a way to use unlimited plus (no throttle) Verizon discount carriers on it: Visible ($45/mo) or Total($50/mo). It IS possible, with a very specific configuration to use Verizon (LTE+NSA only) and we're getting killer download speeds where no other internet is available, a few miles out of town, and no extra antennas, through an external wall. Yes, it will require some real research and work to get it set. Once set, we are solid. High speeds and very reliable. Update: A year later, still using the modem and pretty happy, actually. I figured out my speed issues are due to having a carrier that deprioritizes data when the network is congested. This can slow speeds hugely. On a flagship plan, things should be pretty good. I'm a bit out in the country next to a small town with one main 5g tower, so it gets great speeds when it's not too busy, and pretty slow speeds if it gets really congested. In town, I expect this would be much less of an impact, since speeds in town are huge. We took this unit on a car vacation for a week to Florida, and kept the kids online the whole way, hooked up in two different hotel rooms and friends' condo with speeds around 200 mbps down without much searching. Learning the local towers and the band-masking function on the unit help a lot. I learned the issues are generally less with the unit and available local towers. 4 and not 5 stars still because I really need to use a different modem for my smart home devices. One thing this modem has going for it: AT commands to change IMEI is pretty easy. Once that was set and getting my TTL set to 65 for Metro by T-Mobile, it connected. Tower lock is pretty cool to keep your speed pretty steady, unless your tower's signal is low or acting up today, and then you need to step back in and make changes because then you're not connecting at all. Also be warned, carrier aggregation is limited to 2 bands, that is, one 5G and one LTE band. This means it won't be as fast as other modems with 3 band carrier aggregation, though I understand those are a bit more expensive. It's pretty terrible for administrating a smart home. It can handle just a few devices at a time, but in the end I've gone back to my AT&T sim card with my rock-steady CAT18 4G LTE Cudy router, which is frankly much of the time almost as fast and can do combined 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, keeping those slower smart devices synced up with the faster ones. This modem can only do separate 2.4 and 5 GHz Wifi, and didn't administrate the slower band very well. It does a good job if you just have some PCs wanting to hook up to a 5G 5GHz connection, and not far away from the unit. I also tried LAN out to WAN on the cudy. This took a good bit of setting changes to be able to get them to work together. To be fair there are plenty of options for doing this, though I found that using the Cudy router as an access point seemed to cut both routers' speeds in half, whether or not you leave the gl-x3000's wireless active or not. This setup also made video streaming almost impossible. Your wireless carriers will also still throttle you endlessly, though that's not GL.iNet's fault. VPN is still a must for PC video streaming, while streaming to TV seems to work pretty well. The very worst issue is that depending on your wireless band, you get 100% packet loss to many wireless devices connected to it, including phones and chromebooks. I think this may have something to do with the wifi frequency, because setting that seemed to help with some devices, but there are still moments of delay or no data passing through at all, leaving apps thinking they are offline, even if the device is connected. In the end, it's a solid 5G modem with just ok router capacities. It's supposed to be able to handle functioning as a WiFi repeater, or even as a tethering WiFi distribution device, but at $400+ there are much more affordable and honestly actually effective devices for that purpose for a fraction of the price. tl;dr: The good: Turns a basic wireless phone SIM card into pretty fast 5G home internet (if you can figure out settings) The bad: It's a pretty shoddy router for administering multiple devices, doesn't play well with LAN/WAN. The ugly: Limitedly customizable via a router interface, and doesn't outshine other 5G routers on the same service, especially for the price. In the end, I will probably end up returning this modem due to oddball snags, though I could learn to live with it. Maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong with this one regarding settings to make it work better.

Well built, stable, fast 5G download and upload speeds, very good firmware. Definitely a keeper! The FRITZ!Box 6850 5G I tried previously was not only much more expensive and significantly slower with the same 5G card in the same location, but also stopped working completely after just a few hours of use. Only gripe I had was that the GL-X3000 came with beta (snapshot) firmware pre-installed instead with the latest stable release, which struck me as quite weird since I don't remember signing up for as beta tester. :-) Also, the default MTU value (1500) is way too high, the data packets were so large that the inital download speed was below 1 (in words: one) mbit/s. I couldn't understand what's wrong until Gemini gave me the decisive hint to lower it to 1420. Therefore only 4 stars instead of 5. Other than that, it's a stellar piece of HW & FW, and I'm now hitting DL speeds of 400-600 mbit/s, and UL speeds of 130-170 mbit/s, which is faster than my previous fiber connection (althouth the idle ping is a bit higher - ca. 50 ms, but still online gaming works fine). All that without even an external antenna (but I live a few hundred meters away from my provider's 5G tower). Next I'm gonna install the Waveform QuadPro 4x4 MIMO antenna and see if I can bring down the ping value a bit. All in all, highly recommended, but you MUST adjust the default MTU value.