Questions about TP-Link Tl-Wr902ac

Hello Roman, You can also use the router at home. "Compact design - ideal for travelling" is just advertising!😜 It is a router like many others. It is only advertised as a router for travelling because of its small size. https://www.tp-link.com/de/home-networking/wifi-router/tl-wr902ac/

No, but it can be used with a USB LTE stick. OpenWrt can be installed on v1, v3 and v4. I did this a few years ago and it has been working reliably in our car as a mobile router and access point ever since. https://openwrt.org/toh/start

It depends on so many factors... eg: Is this a SmartTV? If so, why don't you connect your mobile directly? If not: How did you want to connect it in the first place? The device can already do a lot, especially with OpenWRT. But when I hear this question, I wonder why you need the device at all.

Yes, that should work. I bought the device to connect a TV with wifi that is not wifi capable

Never tried it. But why don’t you just use your smartphone as a hot spot connection thru your cell network ?

Unfortunately micro USB...

Hello Markus The device does not have a 4G slot for a SIM card. It is a 'simple' WLAN router. Greetings, Jürg

A power supply unit, a USB cable and an RJ45 LAN cable are also supplied.

Hello Efries The TP-Link TL-WR902AC router cannot be equipped with a SIM card. Take a look at the TP-Link Archer MR200 AC750 Wireless Dual Band 4G LTE router to see if it's not more what you're looking for. Greetings M.

Well, you can't, so simply the WiFi 6 network can only be extended by adding an additional WiFi 6 capable mesh router device. Buying a repeater is not an optimal idea, because repeaters are an outdated technology. Today, you are better off with a WiFi mesh router system. The best solution is to buy an additional WiFi 6-capable mesh router, but it depends on the manufacturer. In general, WiFi 6 systems can be expanded with additional mesh router components from the same manufacturer. The manufacturer's website should have information on this, e.g. TP-Link offers possibilities with the Deco System to expand a mesh system with additional components, which can then of course only support WiFi 5, but that would not be ideal either. If WiFi 6 is used as the main network, all WiFi mesh router devices used with it should also support the same standard. This makes everything much easier.

What do you mean? After purchasing the router, there are no additional costs for the router itself, unless you want to share a mobile internet connection, in which case you need to buy a separate mobile phone contract and possibly a 3G/4G modem.

Hello - What exactly do you mean "how"? LG

Can't help as I ordered it thinking it was a battery powered mobile device and it is not

I had also had something like this in mind. But the mini router could not supply enough power to operate a 2.5-inch hard drive. With a USB memory stick it worked in principle, but access to it was extremely unreliable and slow. Since I've been using a "normal", larger wifi router, there are no problems. Of course, it doesn't reach the speed of a NAS, but it's enough for my purposes.

Hello Sandro, It's been a while since I used this device! I used it as a wireless client on the WAN port of a ZyXEL ZyWall USG50 for my customer. This after a fire in the office, which destroyed pretty much all the infrastructure and so his company network was temporarily back in the "net", I used a small "mobile hotspot" with which the "TP-Link" connected as a client. It operated absolutely trouble-free for about 4 months! It does not have a VPN client option! .... but maybe this will help you: https://www.expressvpn.com/de/support/vpn-setup/manual-config-for-tp-link-router-with-l2tp/ Greetings, have fun and above all, success!

I have not tried this use case so far. And I have no idea whether the manufacturer's firmware supports it. However, OpenWrt can be flashed onto the router and then it should be possible. Provided that the WLAN stick is supported by Linux.

Yes, the router supports client mode. So you should be able to use it like a wifi adapter.

I have recently received version 3. However, this is no guarantee that Digitec will sell version 3 in the future....

For this purpose, iPhones offer the function "Personal Hotspot"!