This sat on a desk, in a bag and on a shelf, in roughly that order, and earned its place in exactly one of them.
The first week is always the flattering week. Everything is new, the setup is fresh in your mind, and the small frictions have not accumulated yet. It is the week most reviews get written in, and it is the least useful one.
Filed under Mobile, which on this site means we care about the boring parts: whether it holds a connection, whether the app is still maintained a year from now, and whether anybody answers the phone when it breaks. The question is never whether a thing works in the shop. It is whether it still works in six months, on your network, alongside your other devices, without you having to think about it.
What follows is the good, the bad, and the part where support asked us to buy a new router.
GreyMatter
Jan 08, 2026 10:00Any idea whether the older model is still worth buying at a discount, or is the new one a real upgrade?
GreyMatter
Jan 08, 2026 10:00Returned mine inside the window. Nothing wrong with it, it just was not worth what they are asking.
ndegroot
Jan 11, 2026 18:00Does it work at all offline, or is it a brick without the cloud service?