Our speed tests in the Sydney CBD produced wildly different results. Our highest speeds were 293.48 Mbps (in Martin Place) and 146.21 Mbps (on the Martin Place side of the Pitt St Mall) with upload speeds of 37Mbps and 23Mbps respectively.

On the battery side, we were not disappointed. Because the M1 is a little larger than other hotspots, it’s also got room for a larger battery. The device can also be used as a travel router so you can share the hotel room’s connection with all of your devices. The M2 certainly isn’t light on features. It supports both 2.4GHz (best for range) and 5GHz (best for outright speed) Wi-Fi bands and you can connect multiple devices – unlike the 4G USB dongles, which only provide a connection to the laptop/PC you’re using.NETGEAR is delighted to be working with EE to provide its customers with the new Nighthawk M1 4G mobile router, said David Henry, Senior Vice President of Connected Home Products for NETGEAR. This new category of mobile routers is destined to be an essential tool for those that need to provide superfast 4G WiFi to a number of devices.”

EE also has the biggest 4G+ network in the UK, providing faster 4G speeds across more than 150 towns and cities. We were connected to the M1 all day through a laptop, tablet and smartphone and still had about 35 per cent battery left at the end of the day.The Telstra Nighthawk M1 is available on a range of Telstra Mobile Broadband plans over 24 months. Telstra Nighthawk M1: Specifications Telstra Nighthawk M1 What the ‘External’ antenna connectors on the M1 can and cannot do is a real minefield after reading the many very technical posts on this forum. With millions more of us working from home during this crisis, we’re all much more reliant on a single point of failure: our broadband connection. And with cafes and other public venues still closed, you can’t rely on taking your laptop to the nearest public Wi-Fi hotspot, either. The Netgear Nighthawk M2 might just be the answer. Telstra has shifted its mobile hotspot portfolio markedly since the introduction of the Nighthawk M1, depending on your desire for a contract or prepaid device. On the contract side of the broadband fence the Nighthawk M1 is your only choice aside from the USB-connected Telstra 4GX USB + Wi-Fi Plus if you prefer creating a hotspot from the side of your laptop. For me, my needs are simple; I simply wish to try and increase the signal strength coming into the M1.

The device is designed to keep you – and up to 20 other devices – connected on the move through the dual 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz bands it creates.EE, part of BT Group, is the largest and most advanced mobile communications company in the UK, delivering mobile and fixed communications services to consumers. BTW. I buy my batteries off Battery World here in Brissie. They are normally very good, but this one tested them. When you add mobile data tariffs on top of that, there’s no question this an expensive safety net. If a day or two offline would be ruinous for your business, you might consider that a price worth paying – I’d certainly be glad to have one of these at hand if my broadband connection collapsed. The Nighthawk M1 runs on Telstra’s 4G LTE network and it’s theoretically able to hit speeds up to 1Gbps.

While it has had a few lower-cost ZTE hotspots on its books over the years, Telstra’s primary producer of hotspots in the premium space has long been Netgear, and the Nighthawk M1 is most definitively a Netgear product. That’s not to say that it looks like any Netgear hotspot that preceded it.In every single test the Galaxy S8 outpaced the Nighthawk M1, sometimes by a considerable margin. If you’re able to connect the M1 via Ethernet to a laptop this does reduce markedly as you’d expect. Still if your interest is in raw speed, you’re inevitably going to lose some along the way. To see if your router supports access from the Nighthawk app, see Which products support the NETGEAR Nighthawk app?. The Nighthawk M1 even managed 105.69 Mbps at Wynyard Station with an impressive 55.88 Mbps upload speed. You can also see how much data you’ve used and how you’ve got left and how long before that allowance refreshes. This information can also be seen on the M1’s screen. The M1 also has a regular Type A USB port and a USB-C port and an Ethernet port so you connect other devices and stream content from USB drives and external hard drives.