｢REVIEW｣ HONOR Router 3 is what you need!

The Honor Router 3 brings dual-band Wi-Fi 6 with beamforming technology to the party, meaning that multiple phones, tablets and laptops ought to be able to enjoy fast speeds all throughout the home.

Typical features like Guest Wi-Fi and parental controls are along for the ride, and there’s also support for IPv6, if you want to embrace the future of the Internet, and UPnP, if you’ve got a lot of networked devices in the home already.

NOTE: This router does not have a built-in modem so isn't suited if you get your broadband over a phone line. It's designed for cable broadband, but can also be used with a separate ADSL/VDSL modem.

Design & Build

The Honor Router 3 is literally one of the lightest routers going. It weighs a mere 379g, takes up 41 x 242 x 152mm of shelf space, and features four Gigabit Ethernet connections – one of which you’ll need to use to connect to your modem, so in practical terms, you only get the use of three.

The Honor Router 3 is light in terms of design, too. Unlike a lot of routers which opt for a menacing sharp-cornered look, the Honor Router 3’s white plastic edges are smooth quarter-circles.

The action of the posable aerials is nice and gentle, although they only flex forwards and backwards, and can’t be pushed any further back than fully upright i.e. perpendicular to the desktop. Turns out this is largely for show, as they’re designed to be permanently upright – depending on how much tweaking and antenna posing you like to do in order to fine tune Wi-Fi reception, this may not be a bad thing.

There is just one LED on the front of the Honor Router 3, which will make at-a-glance diagnosis of problems hard, although you can manage the router from your phone with either the Huawei SmartHome app (iOS), or the Huawei AI Life app (Android), so a quick look at your phone should be able to tell you what’s up.

Set-up & Features

The Honor Router 3 is easy to get going, thanks to the easy-to-follow instructions and visual prompts that guide you through the process. You can set everything up using your phone if you want to, but you’ll likely be more comfortable using a laptop to get everything up and running via Ethernet.

When you first connect to the Router 3, you’ll be invited to set up new SSIDs. You can opt to split both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz signals, or have the Honor Router 3 automatically switch devices over to 5GHz connections when signal strength is equal to that of the 2.4GHz band – so in practical terms, you’ll be automatically shunted over to 5GHz when you’re closer to your router.

This will have the twin effect of moving you to the fast lane, while making room in the perma-busy 2.4GHz band for devices that can’t or won’t connect to 5GHz.

Once you’ve chosen the names for the SSIDs, you can create passwords for them as well as set the admin password. Then you’ll be asked to pick your connection type from the usual list, PPPoE, DHCP, Bridge AP, or Static IP. Custom DNS settings can be entered at this stage too.

The Huawei AI Life mobile app gives you access to most of these features, and also acts as a handy diagnostic/optimisation tool. It’ll attempt to fix any wireless interference snags you may encounter, although you can’t do more advanced things like change Wi-Fi channels from the app.

My final verdict:

Well, ok um still testing and going to see through the week how the quality I'd internet improved but I already have much better signal all around the house, through walls... Also the price of this amazing device is not that much if you are getting a router that is enable for Wi-Fi 6, and does an amazing job. The design is another thing I loved. Is minimal and it fits perfect on your sitting room. 

With all of these I surely recommend this if you are in search of a new router. 

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Relevante data and info from:

https://www.gsmarena.com/honor_router_3_review-amp-44727.php

Also I'm not an expert on this things about internet, you can check more about the Honor Router 3 online. 

And if you are from Europe and what to buy one and there's no HONOR online store, as it was in my case, you can buy here:

https://www.powerplanetonline.com/huawei-honorrouter-3-wi-fi-6