Mobile Broadboad Router 1400

I replaced an older router with this unit. Whether it is the stronger signal, the three antennae, better chip set, code, whatever, all our network devices now connect much faster and keep much more reliable connections than with the old router.I am running usually three laptops and two wireless all-in-one printers on the network, with no hiccups. I am often running different VPN tunnels for work, and this used to cause my wife's iMac to lose connection with the old router. No longer - everything just works.Installation was simple and painless - took less than 15 minutes, including configuring the SSID and security (WPA2).The only "gotcha" I found so far was that the wireless administration screens don't work with Internet Explorer 10 - portions of the screens didn't display. No problems with Chrome or IE9. Minor issue and I prefer IE9 anyway.Update October 2013. After a firmware update, the admin screens are working with IE 10 now. That takes care of the one "nit" I encountered.Still working flawlessly.

I feel like I just paid $350 for a downgrade from my previous router. Basically functionality requires a subscription service and the signal strength is awful compared to the cheap router I replaced it with!Apparently, I have to pay to enable OpenVPN, L2TP, etc on this router. I took it for granted that this basic functionality would come standard on such an expensive router since it does on many others that are half the price. I just spent about 30 minutes on the phone trying to figure out if I have to and whether I can buy the subscription to enable OpenVPN since I'm in Africa. And, I still don't know.The girl in support said I need to buy a support contract in order to confirm that I had to buy a subscription to enable OpenVPN. I said no. She said that I would need to send an email to support if I didn't want to pay for voice support. So, I said... Isn't this something the Sales team could answer on the phone? She said yes and transferred me. Glad one of us was using our thinkers.Then the sales guy was going to try and send me to his international rep. When I explained why I didn't think it was necessary, he agreed. I thought, well, that was easy. So now, I'm going to fill out some information online and wait to see whether they'll enable my service. The wait is 24 hours... ha!The signal strength is worse than the cheap router I replaced it with. I'm comparing with a wifi analyzer and the peak of it's fluctuating signal matches the lowest signal strength of my old netgear router. I'm about 25 feet away and around a corner. Testing one router powered on at a time, routers in same location, test conducted from same location, etc.Hopefully I can just sell it and buy a router from a company that doesn't need to nickel and dime you for basic functionality.

I purchased the Cradlepoint MBR1400 for use with Cox cable as the primary connection and T-Mobile as the wireless backup (USB Rocket modem). In testing the fail-over capability I found the fail-over from Cox to T-Mobile worked okay but when the Cox modem came back on-line the MBR1400 could not fail-back to the Cox modem. Somehow the MBR1400 was not able to get an IP address from the Cox modem. After replacing the MBR1400, replacing the cable modem and trying as many configurations as Cradlepoint's support staff suggested the fail-back still would not work. I finally returned the unit and took a 20% hit as a restocking charge since the support episode with Cradlepoint lasted more than 30 days.I subsequently purchased a Peplink Balance 20 and the fail-over/fail-back scenario works perfectly. The fail-over is much faster than the Cradlepoint unit and the fail-back works as quickly. The Peplink does not have WiFi like the MBR1400 but adding a ~$60 access point to the network was trivial.

Excellent. It works perfectly.

Use it to load balance between a satellite connection and a mobile broadband connection in a remote area and the functionality is great, I'm really happy with the purchase. I would recommend it to anyone looking to use multiple WANs or needing to use mobile broadband as failover. My only complaint is the price could have been a little lower.

We use this with a Verizon aircard as a primary internet connection at a job site with multiple laptops, and a wired business grade printer/copier/scanner. It has proven to be quite reliable. The amount of customization and neat features on this device are incredible. We have had to reset it 1-2 times in the last few months probably due to the connection going stale (Probably a Verizon issue), but other than that its been running 24/7 since we connected it.It was very quick and painless to setup. It is no more difficult to setup than your average home router (unless you get into the advanced options).The claimed 750+ feet of WiFi range is, of course, vastly over rated. Maybe in perfect climate and environmental conditions you could reach 750 feet (downhill from the router) but in reality the range is maybe slightly better than a consumer grade home router.You can setup multiple wireless networks if you want to say, have multiple companies connecting to the same device or have separate wireless networks with access restrictions/limitations in place. There are settings to limit usage and availability of each wireless network.