Huawei B618s-66d (Telstra 4GX Modem) Router Review

The Huawei B618 was available in many countries since 2018 and now becomes one of the best LTE routers in the market. If you are familiar with Huawei B618 router, you may know there are two variant models for Huawei B618 Router: They are B618s-22d and B618s-65d. Here we get a new variant Huawei B618s-66d. Like other Huawei 4G LTE WiFi routers, the Huawei B618s-66d supports different LTE frequency bands from the two brother models.

 

Huawei B618s-66d Appearance

 

Huawei B618s-66d is a customized router from Australian network carrier Telstra, who gives it a new name “Telstra 4GX Modem”. The Telstra 4GX Modem router has same shape as the two brother model, but it has Telstra logo on the front instead of Huawei logo. The LED indicators are still there, including three antenna indicators, Power indicator, Status indicator, LAN, WiFi and data usage indicators.

 

 

 

On the back of the Huawei B618 Telstra, the two connectors for external antennas are available and covered by a small tap. The connector type is TS-9. Below are the power button, USB 2.0 Port and two Ethernet ports for LAN. There is no battery in the Huawei B618 router, so the Power plug for adapter is also available. However, unlike the Huawei B618s-22d, the Ethernet ports in Telstra 4GX Modem B618s-66d are both for LAN. In B618s-22d, one is for LAN and the other one is for both LAN and WAN.

 

 

The SIM card slot is at the bottom of the Telstra 4GX Modem. The Reset button is at the side of the SIM card slot. And a stick indicates the model B618s-66d, SSID, WiFi Key, IP, user name, password, WPS pin, IMEI number, S/N number, and some certificates etc... The Huawei B618s-66d uses Micro-SIM card.  

 

Huawei B618s-66d (Telstra 4GX Modem) Specs Review  

• Support 4GX Cat11
• Support 4G LTE Frequency Band 1/3/5/7/28 700/850/1800/2100/2600MHz
• Support 4 x 4 MIMO
• Support up to 20 WiFi-enabled devices simultaneously
• WLAN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, 2.4GHz and 5GHz
• SIM Type: Micro(3FF)
• 2 x LAN ports(RJ45), 1 X USB(2.0) port to connect a printer or storage drive
• Huawei Hilink App. Easy management by smartphone or pad

 

 

On the Telstra official site, it doesn’t list the LTE Band 28. We re-checked with Telstra and get confirmation that Huawei B618s-66d Telstra 4GX Modem supports Band 28. The Huawei official site says the Huawei B618 Australia router could support maximum up to 64 users, but the Telstra 4GX Modem supports only 20 devices simultaneously.

 

 

 

Huawei B618s-66d (Telstra 4GX Modem) Price

 

Due to specs subtraction of the Telstra 4GX Modem, the price is a little cheaper than the original model B618s-22d and B618s-65d. If you want the original functions, you may use the Huawei B618s-65d which could fully replace B618s-66d to use in Australia.

Huawei B612 VS Huawei B310

Since 4G LTE networks are more and more popular, people usually need one or more home WiFi router for the terminals at home to access the internet. Huawei had provided many wireless router models for home usage and many of the Huawei Home WiFi routers are very well-known by the users. The Huawei B310 router is one of them. A few months ago, Huawei presented a new 4G home WiFi router named Huawei B612. For those people who are looking for a home WiFi router, they may want to know what the difference is between the Huawei B612 and Huawei B310, and which one is better to buy. You may check below the images of the two routers and specs comparisons, in the summary, we will list the key difference between them for the reference.

 

 

 

Huawei B612 VS Huawei B310 Specifications

 

Model	Huawei B612	Huawei B310
Product type	Huawei WiFi Router with Ethernet port	LTE WiFi Router
Category	LTE Cat.6	LTE Cat.4
Chipset	HiSilicon LTE Cat6 Chipset	Hisilicon Balong
LTE Data rates	DL 300Mbps/UL 50Mbps	DL 150Mbps/UL 50Mbps
Supported 4G LTE frequency bands	Huawei B612s-25d:  B1/B3/B7/B8/B20/B38/B40/B41/B42/B43 Huawei B612s-51d: B2/B4/B5/B7/B41	* Huawei B310s-927:  B1/B3/B8/B40 * Huawei B310As-852: B3/B7/B8/B38/B39/B40/B41 * Huawei B310s-22: B1/B3/B7/B8/B20 * Huawei B310s-518: B1/B2/B4/B5/B7/B28
WLAN	802.11 b/g/n/ac, single-band 2.4GHz	802.11b/g/n, single-band 2.4GHz
Max supported users	32 users	32 users
MIMO	4 x 4 MIMO	n/a
Antenna	Two, SMA-female jacks	Two, SMA-female jacks
Buy Antenna	Huawei B612 external antenna	Huawei B310 external antenna
App management	Huawei Hilink APP	Huawei Hilink APP
SIM Size	Micro SIM	Standard SIM
Battery	NO	No
Dimensions	240 × 155 × 78 mm	181.0mm x 126.0mm x 70.0mm
Interfaces	* 3 x LAN port(RJ45) * 1 x LAN/WAN port (RJ45) * 1 x telephone port(RJ11) * Two external LTE antenna ports (SMA-female) * One micro-SIM card slot * 1 x USB 2.0 port	* 1 x power adapter port * 3 x LAN port(RJ45)(Depends) * 1 x LAN/WAN port (RJ45) * 1 x telephone port(RJ11)(depends) * Two external LTE antenna ports (SMA-J1.5) * One SIM card slot * 1 x USB 2.0 port(depends)
Datasheet	Huawei B612 Datasheet(PDF)	Huawei B310 Datasheet(PDF)
User Manual	Huawei B612 User Manual(PDF)	Huawei B310 Manual(PDF)
Other features	Firewall, CS Voice, VoIP, VoLTE, IPv6/IPv4 dual stack, NAT, DHCP, VPN, DMZ, UPnP, ALG,	Voice, DHCP, NAT, ARP, ICMP, DNS Relay, IPv6/IPv4 dual stack, VPN passthrough, Firewall, URL filter, LAN IP filter, DMZ, UPnP, ALG, Port forwarding
Firmware download	Huawei B612 firmware	Huawei B310 firmware
Driver	Huawei B612 driver	Huawei B310 driver
Reviews	Huawei B612 Review	Huawei B310 Review
Price/USD	199.00USD	139.00USD

 

 

 

 

Summary

 

From the specs table, we could see the Huawei B612 is more advanced than Huawei B310 router. The main difference between the Huawei B612 and B310 focus on below:  

1. Speeds

Huawei B612 could support peak download speed up to 300Mbps and upload speed to 50Mbps based on LTE Cat6 while Huawei B310 supports peak download speed up to 150Mbps and upload speed to 50Mbps based on LTE Cat4.  

2. Variant models

Huawei B612 Router has two variant models while Huawei B310 has more up to 4 variant models. They support different LTE frequency bands, users to check which frequency bands are available for their network providers and then select the right model to use.  

3. Wireless technology

Huawei B612 and B310 both support single mode 2.4GHz for WiFi, but Huawei B612 support 4 x 4 MIMO technology, which would improve the data transfer speeds.  

4. Interfaces

Huawei B612 has the standard configuration for Huawei 4G routers, including 3 WAN ports, one WAN/LAN port, one telephone port, two connectors for external antennas, and one USB 2.0 port. However, in the Huawei B310 variant models, some of the interfaces may be missing on specific models. If you would buy Huawei B310, you may confirm how many WAN or LAN ports are available, whether there is telephone port in case you want to use some functions but no interface to support.  

5. Price

As the newer model and better technology, Huawei B612 price is higher than Huawei B310 price, but if you don’t have much requirements for the router, Huawei B310 is a budget router for home use.    

 

Now you could make a decision of which router to buy between the Huawei B612 and B310 router.

Huawei 5G CPE PRO H112-372 Launched for China

China's telecommunication giant Huawei Technologies (Huawei) has announced its NR/LTE terminal "HUAWEI 5G CPE Pro (H112-372)" for China a few days ago. The Huawei 5G CPE is in white color and is a stationary wireless LAN router called Customer Premises Equipment (Customer Premise Equipment: CPE) compatible with the 5th generation mobile communication system (5G).

 

 

 

The communications modem will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huawei Technologies and will be powered by the HiSilicon Balong 5000, which was developed by HiSilicon Technologies (Shenzhen Haijin Semiconductor) in China.   The new Huawei 5G WiFi router supports 5G NR frequency bands on (TDD) 4500 (n 79) / 3700 (n 77) / 3500 (n 78) / 2500 (n 41) MHz, and 4G frequency bands are also supporting, including LTE (FDD) 2600 (B7) / 2100 (B1) / 1800 (B3) / 1500 (B32) ) / 900 (B8) / 850 (B5) / 800 (B18 / B19 / B20) / 700 (B28) MHz, and LTE (TDD) 3700 (B43) / 3500 (B42) / 2600 (B38) / 2500 (B41) / 2300 (B40) / 2000 (B34) / 1900 (B39) MHz.

 

 

 

 

The NR method is a communication method specified to satisfy the requirements of 5G in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) of the standardization organization, and the NR method and the LTE method cooperate with a standalone (SA) in which the NR method operates alone. There is a non-stand alone (NSA) that operates as a standard, and HUAWEI 5G CPE Pro can use both stand alone and non stand alone.   The communication speed is NR at 2.33 Gbps for downlink and uplink at maximum 1.25 Gbps, and LTE corresponds to LTE DL Category 19 and LTE UE Category 13 at downlink up to 1.6 Gbps / up to 150 Mbps.

 

 

 

 

The actual communication speed varies depending on the bandwidth operated by the telecommunications carrier, the up / down ratio, the speed control, and the cell tower distance.   The SIM card is single SIM and the size is Nano SIM (4FF) size. It also supports wireless LAN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 GHz / 5 GHz). It has to mention that the 5G WiFi router supports 802.11ax, also called WiFi 6, which would provide much faster wireless data transmission.   

 

 Here now the Huawei 5G router is for sale in many e-commerce platforms and the Huawei 5G CPE Pro price is good. As we know, the Huawei router is unlocked and open for any compatible networks. From the supported freuquency bands, we can see the new 5G router can work in most of the countries over the world.