TL-WR902AC

Traveling can be a whirlwind of experiences, from the breathtaking sights to the unique cultures. But in today's digital age, staying connected is equally crucial. On my recent 10-day European cruise, the TP-Link AC750 Wireless Portable Nano Travel Router proved to be an indispensable companion, ensuring I remained connected without a hitch. First and foremost, the portability of this device is unmatched. Its compact and lightweight design meant it easily slipped into my carry-on, occupying minimal space. Unlike other routers I've used in the past, the TP-Link AC750 didn't feel like an additional burden. Instead, it felt like carrying a portable charger. Setting up the TP-Link AC750 was a breeze. I've had my fair share of experiences with routers, and I can confidently say that this was one of the most straightforward setups I've encountered. The instructions were clear, and within minutes, I had a secure Wi-Fi network up and running. The intuitive interface ensured that even those less tech-savvy could get it running without any hiccups. Now, let's talk about the real game-changer. Cruises are notorious for their exorbitant internet charges. Typically, you'd pay a premium for each device you connect. With the TP-Link AC750, I circumvented this entirely. I paid for a single device connection and then used the travel router to share that connection across my laptop, phone, and tablet. The savings were substantial, running into hundreds of dollars over the duration of the cruise. Not only did this device keep me connected, but it also proved to be an economical choice. Performance-wise, the TP-Link AC750 exceeded all my expectations. Despite its small size, it packed a punch. The dual-band AC750 Wi-Fi ensured a robust and fast connection, allowing for smooth HD streaming. Whether I was video calling family back home, streaming a movie, or simply browsing, the connection remained consistent and reliable. The TP-Link AC750 Wireless Portable Nano Travel Router is a must-have for any traveler. If you're planning a trip anytime soon, do yourself a favor and get this device.

....verify that your ethernet port is active!!! I am at an extended stay hotel and the wifi signal is very week at the end of the hallway where my room is. OK for texting and basic email, but my Roku took forever to connect and Netflix was a no-go. (Believe it or not, there are still hotels with "dumb" TVs.) Since I'm going to be here for a month, I figured this would be a great purchase. I had it sent to a locker (super great feature BTW) and it arrived next day no problem. Super easy instructions.... got it all ready to go..... and.... nothing. No signal. Nothing. Restarted everything, did all the trouble shooting....nothing. Finally called the front desk. They had no idea what I was talking about. Tried to sell me on the $4.95 per day enhanced wifi. They agreed to send engineering up..... guy takes one look... "Oh, I don't think any of those wall things work anymore. Well I'm not sure." So my next idea was to test in a different room.... he radios to the desk and we walk down the hall to an empty room. Take the router and my tablet with me...... plug in.... two clicks.... PRESTO !!!! works like a charm. So I arrange to switch rooms and all is good. Super strong full signal and running tablets and Roku no problem. Phones all connected as well. Super tiny and will always be in my travel bag from now on. Great product.

What a piece of junk. I bought this because I wanted a media server for my VR headset. There is a USB port for this exact purpose. First, you need to know that this reviewer is a computer guy of 40+ years. Setup was a bit difficult, but after an hour it was up and running. After a week, the nightmare began... Fail#1: One evening, I went to watch a movie and EVERYTHING was gone -- all 300GBs just vanished into thin air. The drive had been wiped out. After days of data recovery attempts, I recovered a small portion of the content. Fail#2: I decided to use my expensive USB SSD to store the media. All went well for a few days ...until I wanted to add some more movies to the SSD. After removing it from the router, it would no longer work properly on the laptop. I could only move about 1.5GB at a time before it would lock-up the SSD. After several hours of messing with the destroyed SSD, I gave up on it. Fail #3: I had an old 300GB USB HDD that I filled completely with content. And guess what? The router wouldn't locate the movie folders on the USB HDD drive. After wasting even more time, I guessed that it might have failed to locate my data because there was a small 9GB empty non-active partition on the drive in addition to the main partition. What a dumb limitation. Arrg! Windows had no issue recognizing this USB HDD drive, but the router could not. So now I'm sitting here writing this review while I'm reformatting and reloading the entire 300GB of data on the third drive yet again. If this router eats this third drive, I will update this review. The lessons I learned are that you should NEVER connect non-backed-up data to this router, and never connect an expensive SSD drive to this router. I honestly wish I had never purchased it. UPDATE: My 300GB drive is going to be too small for future use, so I purchased a new 2TD USB HDD. I formatted it and loaded the 300GB of data, and the router did NOT see the data. Really!!?? After some more experimentation, I decided to reformat the USB HDD with the 4096 format allocation unit size (which is crazy inefficient for large media files), and the router DID find the files! So, I writing this update while yeat again moving the same 300GB of data yet another time! To save YOU some time, here a quick tip: **Do NOT format any USB drive with any other allocation unit size than 4096 if you expected this router to be able to see the data. Or at least, format your drive with a test folder to see if this router can see it before dedicating all the time to load the content. ** Here's hoping this is the final saga in this sad story. (not so) FINAL UPDATE: Well, everything was great - was able to watch some movies!! ....until this morning, when the media server "just quit" in mid-movie. The WiFi bridge was still working just fine, but the media server magically disappeared. So, I was faced with the difficult decision of either returning the router to Amazon or experiencing the massive joy of taking a sledgehammer to it. But alas, I took the responsible route and am returning it to Amazon. After all that has happened, I didn't want it to damage my sledgehammer also! In all fairness, if you don't need a media server, and NEVER intend to connect any USB drive, you should be very happy with this product -- the Wifi was rock-solid. (another no so) FINAL UPDATE: Well, I THOUGHT the media server "just quit", but actually after moving the USB drive back to the computer I realized that this absolute POS router killed a BRAND NEW $70 USB DRIVE at the hardware level. It no longer spins up. Arrrg! It just gets worse... THE FINAL UPDATE! The nightmare is over! Just received my RavPower (ironically, the same exact model number, scary, aye?) and got everything set up and running as a bridge and media server in under 10 minutes! Super happy again!

This little unit is really handy and works as advertised. I bought it to use on a cruise, but I've found it useful for one other task which is connecting a PC without wifi to my home network: The TP Link TL-WR902AC connects to the wifi, and an Ethernet cable runs between the TP Link and the PC. The TP link provides an IP address to the PC, and then acts as a wifi client on my wifi network. Most people aren't going to need this, but I work on old PCs that usually have no wifi adapter in them. Up front, I will add that the directions for the TL-WR902AC are very good, and should guide non-technical users through the steps to get things running based on their specific needs. I also used the TP Link unit on board Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas ship in July 2022. The idea was to purchase wifi for one device (the TL-WR902AC), and then use the TL-WR902AC to allow multiple devices to connect. The design is simple: The TL-WR902AC is the single client on the ship's wifi network, and then it broadcasts a new/different wifi signal and SSID that you can connect your devices to. I used a laptop PC to connect to the TL-WR902AC with an Ethernet cable to navigate the admin web interface on the TL-WR902AC, and configure it to connect to the ship's wifi. This technically all worked, but had at least a couple of problems with usability. First, the ship's wifi drops the connection after some amount of time of inactivity and requires that you log in again in the web interlace where you provide the username and PIN that you created when purchasing a wifi connection for 1 device. Because the TL-WR902AC isn't a PC or computer, there is no way for it to hold open the connection with a continual ping or similar. It might have been possible to leave the laptop PC running all the time and have it continually reach out to the internet to hold open the connection, but the second problem was that ship's Internet access was slow and intermittent. Even from a single smartphone, the Internet access was bad, inconsistent, and slow. So that complicated the use of the TL-WR902AC because it was not always clear where or why the connections were breaking down. This is not the fault of the TL-WR902AC, however. If the ship's internet connection had been more reliable, I might have been able to more effectively troubleshoot using the TL-WR902AC to share the connection using the single device. Being on a cruise, I did not take a ton of time to troubleshoot all of this, especially it became apparent that the ship's Internet connection was poor. Technically the TL-WR902AC worked so I won't ding it there. I do wish the TL-WR902AC had a few more features: First, it would be good if it could show you a status of the devices using its wifi: Device IP, name (if available), Kilobits in/out, last connection time, etc. Yes you can call up the DHCP table but that was just one piece. Second, it would be great if the TL-WR902AC could be configured to make an intermittent ping or http request to an IP address or http link that I provide, on a schedule of every few seconds or minutes. The idea would be to hold open a connection out to the Internet over the wifi connection on the "WAN" side. Third, I could not find a way in the TL-WR902AC's web interface to reconfigure the WAN wifi login information without going to setup wizard. This ultimately isn't a problem but it it would be nice if you could find the config without the wizard. You CAN do this with the wifi networks that you configure for your devices, but not the wifi network that the TL-WR902AC is the client on. So, bottom line, this unit works, but you need to have some experience with working with these kinds of things and have some understanding of what you're trying to accomplish technically. The included directions are good to help novice users get running, but like many technical things when you run into problems then it helps to have a technical background to troubleshoot.

Got this router for traveling so that all my devices can be on the same private network. This allows things such as AirPlay mirroring to my travel Roku from my iPhone and also allows me to have all my travel electronics (roku, echo, etc) pre configured to my private network. When I get to the location, I set up the travel router to connect to whatever wireless network is available then I turn on all my devices and they work with no additional setup. For anyone who has struggled to get a Roku working on public wifi with a confirmation/setup page, you know what a pain that can be (if you can get it to work at all, some networks I never could). This device has a very small form factor which I like, fits easily in my computer bag. Access is straightforward, connect a device to the wifi network of the device and use a browser to log in and change the settings. I did all the initial setup with my home wifi such as creating the SSID, setting up the security protocols and so forth. When I got to my first hotel to see how it worked all I needed to do was to scan for wifi networks and then choose the one I wanted the router to use. This particular one had a webpage to enter a code, once I had selected the network and saved the configuration I tried to go to a website on my phone (connected to the router's private network now). The configuration page for the hotel wifi came right up and I was able to enter the code once for the entire stay (Hilton hotel, hhonors was the wifi network I connected to). All my devices connected immediately to the router's wifi and worked great. For the price, I'm very happy with my purchase. Hassling with connecting each type of device to a hotel wifi is a huge pain and often fails (such as with my Roku and also my Echo) so this solution is simple and elegant and also provides additional security and features for use. I haven't tried any of the advanced features of the router yet, but they're all there (such as port forwarding, VPN, spoofing mac addresses, etc). My needs are fairly simple and this router checks all the boxes for me. Highly recommended.

This is the first AC travel router I've purchased, but also one of the only ones I've seen on the market. I've had it for a few days and put it through some of its paces - configuration, packing for a trip, etc. I want to love this router, but it's just OK. I'm not even sure I'll replace my 2.4Ghz Wireless N travel router with it at this point because of one of its pretty big physical flaws. PROs: - As with the other TP-Link travel router I owned, this seems to be a fully functional router in a compact package. It does MAC address access lists for the wireless, DHCP reservation, port forwarding, port range forwarding, DMZ, etc. - It's almost as small as the 2.4GHz travel routers I have. I have a case that fits my router, a 2 foot flat Ethernet cable, a micro USB cable, and a USB wall wart adapter. This thing fits in that case, taking up only a little more room than my 2.4GHz router did. - Some other major brand/highly rated travel routers here come with very little in the way of what's needed to work out-of-the-box. This router, like the other TP-Link I had comes with a flat Ethernet cable, a micro USB cable, and a micro USB charger. That means if you order it while away from home, you still have everything you need to get up and running. CONs: - There appears to be very little documentation on this router. When I go to TP-Link's United States website, it doesn't even come up in a search. When I searched on the router model in Google, it took me to TP-Link's United Kingdom website. There is a new firmware available for this router, but it says it's EU specific. So, for now apparently there's no US support for firmware or documentation for this router. - While the wireless MAC address access list is listed as a PRO up above, it's implementation is somewhat of a CON. It gives separate access lists for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. If you want to add a device to both, you have to do it in each place; there's no way to tell the router to add to both lists at the same time. With a medium to large list of devices, this is cumbersome. Also the MAC list can only be seen 9 devices at a time, so searching through the list to make sure everything is on it becomes tedious. - The micro USB power and Ethernet ports are on different sides of the router. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but when using these things in many different travel environments, and thinking about other travel and even home routers, this isn't really ideal. In some places, I have to put the router near the bed. I've started putting the router in its case, with the power on and running in order to not see the bright, blinking lights at night. The placement of these two cables prevents that from working out. - The micro USB power port on this router seems to be recessed further inside the unit than it should be. The cable barely plugs into it and I've had it slip out multiple times just by bumping the router. I've tried multiple micro USB cables with it, so I know it's the device. Looking inside the router, it doesn't look like mine has a manufacturing defect, it looks like it's the design. This is the one con that I think will make me either return this router or not use it to its fullest extent. Over time, all of these type of connectors wear and the connection isn't as solid as it was in the beginning (cell phones are a prime example of this). If this thing has a problem with loose connection out of the box, over time it will get worse and probably won't stay in at all without some external device like a rubber band holding it in. UPDATE 20170420: I ordered a second of these routers just to see if the micro USB port issue was isolated to the first unit I received. Out of the box, I found that the second unit has the exact same issue as the first: the micro USB connector is seated so far into the router that any micro USB cable plugged into it has difficulty staying seated. One cable I had barely "clicked" but did not stand up to any amount of tugging. Another didn't click at all and fell out on its own. The cable provided with the router is no different. Apparently this is a design flaw with the router.

**TP-Link AC750 Wireless Portable Nano Travel Router (TL-WR902AC)** **Compact and Versatile Travel Router with Multiple Modes and Reliable Performance** I recently purchased the TP-Link AC750 Wireless Portable Nano Travel Router for an upcoming trip, and it has proven to be an essential gadget for staying connected on the go. This tiny device offers a lot of versatility in a compact form, making it perfect for travel or boosting WiFi connectivity in various settings. **What I Like:** - **Multiple Modes and Versatility**: The TL-WR902AC supports several different modes, including Router, Hotspot, Bridge, Range Extender, Access Point, and Client modes. This flexibility allows me to use it in various situations, whether I’m setting up a private WiFi network in a hotel, extending the range of an existing network, or connecting multiple devices to a public hotspot. It’s incredibly versatile, making it useful for both travel and home use. - **Compact and Portable Design**: The router is small enough to fit in the palm of my hand, making it easy to slip into a pocket, backpack, or laptop bag. Its portability is one of its best features, as it doesn’t take up much space and is light enough to carry anywhere. Despite its small size, it’s packed with features that rival larger, more expensive routers. - **Dual Band WiFi**: The router supports dual-band WiFi, offering both 2.4GHz and 5GHz connections. This allows for better flexibility depending on the environment and devices being used. The 5GHz band is particularly useful for faster speeds and less interference, which is great when streaming videos or making video calls. I’ve found the connection to be stable and reliable across both bands. - **Easy Setup and Use**: Setting up the router was straightforward, even for someone who isn’t particularly tech-savvy. The instructions were clear, and the setup process was quick. The web interface is user-friendly, making it easy to switch between modes and adjust settings as needed. - **USB Port for Charging and File Sharing**: The inclusion of a USB 2.0 port is a handy feature. It can be used to charge devices, which is useful when outlets are scarce, or to share files across the network from a USB drive. This added functionality makes the router even more valuable, especially in situations where you need to quickly transfer files between devices. **What I Don’t Like:** - **Limited Range**: While the router works well in smaller spaces, its range is somewhat limited compared to full-sized routers. It’s perfect for a hotel room or small apartment, but if you’re trying to cover a larger area, you might notice some drop-off in signal strength. This is expected given its size, but it’s worth considering if you need extensive coverage. - **USB Port is Only 2.0**: The USB port is USB 2.0, which means it’s slower for data transfers compared to USB 3.0. While it’s sufficient for charging and basic file sharing, it might be a bit slow for transferring larger files or streaming media directly from a USB drive. A faster port would have been a nice addition, but this is a minor gripe given the router’s overall performance. - **No Battery**: The router needs to be plugged into a power source to operate, as it doesn’t have a built-in battery. While this isn’t a major issue, it does mean you’ll need to ensure you have access to power when using it on the go. A built-in battery would have made it even more convenient for travel. **Bottom Line:** The TP-Link AC750 Wireless Portable Nano Travel Router is an excellent choice for anyone in need of a compact and versatile router for travel or home use. Its multiple modes, dual-band WiFi, and easy setup make it a powerful tool for staying connected wherever you go. While the range is somewhat limited and the USB port is only 2.0, these are minor drawbacks compared to the overall utility and performance of the device. If you’re looking for a reliable and portable router that can handle a variety of tasks, the TL-WR902AC is definitely worth considering. It’s been a valuable addition to my travel tech gear, and I’m very satisfied with its performance.

I travel for work. So I am in hotels often. I LOVE the ability to plug a gadget in, and point it to the access point, and have all my devices automatically connect up. This was necessary to satisfy the problem of Google chromecast, where it requires a phone to operate, and they must be on the same wifi network. (Most hotels isolate devices to keep guests secure from each other) I bought the small nano first. And I later purchased the larger version (TL-WR902AC). So I will provide the pros and cons of each here. Please also note that I am EXCLUSIVELY using this in hotels in wi-fi only (never plugged in the RJ-45 ethernet) as a wi-fi access point for all my tech, I've not used it for anything else. There are many other features and capabilities that are not accounted for here. Nano: + simple setup, great wizard. + SOOOOO tiny + Works great with Marriott/SPG hotels (and everywhere else I've tried it) - Struggles with multiple devices, the single band antenna seems to be a big restriction in speed and multiple devices. - Slow speeds Big brother (AC902 model) + Much cleaner and more stable connections - handles all my devices brilliantly. + Far more features (that I don't use) + Larger than the nano (picture for reference) but still so small that it's perfect for travel - Setup is not so streamlined. Additional hardware toggle on the device makes it more confusing. (I use the middle setting, "Share Hotspot") Side-notes: I used this exclusively at a single hotel before upgrading, so the differences noticed between the two models were all at the same property. Both devices get a bit warm, but nothing concerning, and it's not at all surprising given how tightly they are packing them. Both are small enough that the only reason I would recommend the nano over the big brother is if you need something to fit in your pocket, or purse, and don't have high expectations in terms of speed.

Molto versatile. Ottimo prodotto.

Very useful for captive portal WiFi sharing..

Just works as it should.

Can't remember getting it

This modem is perfect for travel. It connects easily to the hotel's host server and is impressively compact. The iOS app makes setup quick and hassle-free. I also appreciate the added security features, which provide extra protection while browsing the web. Highly recommended for frequent