Huawei E3276 Review and Test

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Huawei E3276 LTE 4G Modem Test and Review

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• The Huawei E3276 LTE Surfstick is the successor
  of Huawei E398, which is probably the best sell
  LTE stick worldwide. For many users, the E398 was
  the best surf stick on the market, it was
  characterized by above-average reception levels
  and a very good quality. With the E3276, the
  Chinese manufacturer trumps its predecessor again
  significantly download speed up to 150 megabits
  / s should now be possible - LTE category 4. We
  have tested the Huawei E3276 for two weeks
  through its paces and one thing is certain the
  E398 was replaced as prime surfstick. If you want
  to know why, then you should read the full test.

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• By E3276 Huawei a new generation of devices a it
  is one of the first devices that is equipped with
  an in-house modem HI Silicon, strictly speaking,
  the Hi9620 chipset. To date, Qualcomm is the
  industry leader in the field of puttering
  cellular modems, in virtually any device with
  wireless connectivity so far a Qualcomm chip. On
  the sheet of Hi6920 chip is the best thing there
  currently on the world market are LTE Category 4
  with up to 150 Mbit / s downstream and 50 Mbit /
  s upload represent only a world first, the other
  is in the UMTS chip installed DC-HSPA in the
  UMTS network with up to 84 Mbit / s downstream
  and 23 Mbit / s upload speeds are nowhere around
  at Qualcomm.

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E3276 First Impression

• The Huawei E3276 4G Date Card is currently sold
  in Austria, Portugal, Poland and Russia, the
  world's course in many more countries. The
  packaging is very small and contains, besides the
  E3276 only a few paper leaflets with information
  about the device. The first impression is very
  good the design meets the predecessor Huawei
  E398, the USB port can be swiveled. What is new
  is that the USB port firmly snaps into place and
  a click mechanism can be folded back. In terms of
  size, there are no major changes, the workmanship
  is good and the design more beautiful than most
  other surf sticks. To insert the SIM card, the
  entire top has to be removed, even when E3276
  sets Huawei continues to sim cards in standard
  size.

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E3276 First Impression

• Its decor is what you expect from a high-end
  modem expects in addition to a slot for Micro SD
  memory cards there are two connectors for
  external antennas. The connections have the
  format CRC 9, the short trip to TS-9 connectors
  such as the E392 or E398 seems to be over. Which
  terminal thereof is the diversity port, but
  unfortunately is not it - if you want to connect
  only one antenna (eg for UMTS), so you have to
  try a little bit.

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E3276 Appliances and Software

• Commissioning is quite easy after the sim card
  and port insert the USB port, the drivers are
  automatically installed. If you already have a
  current Huawei Dashboard software on the
  computer, so you can use them if necessary.
  Directly. Otherwise, the connection software will
  be installed on request and after entering the
  PIN, and connection settings (APN) you can
  connect to the Internet. So much nothing unusual.
  Huawei advertises the E3276 LTE USB Modem in some
  cases even as HiLink stick, but our testers do
  not have this functionality. HiLink means on the
  PC software must be no longer installed and the
  connection is established within a few seconds -
  we were on the Huawei E303 tested times and were
  quite impressed! If you configure the
  auto-connect, the connection attempt takes but
  without HiLink just 20 seconds. The E3276 on
  Windows.

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E3276 Appliances and Software

• The software on the E3276 can of course vary
  depending on the network operator, the
  branding-free version comes with original Huawei
  Dashboard in version 23.009.05.00.03, and the
  stick has the firmware version 21.192.03.01.07.
  An LED on the front of the LTE stick shows the
  current connection status, for UMTS and LTE Stick
  the cyan light. More specifically, the power in
  the software will be displayed in addition to
  the signal strength indicator is either LTE or DC
  HSPA , HSPA , etc. - the signal strength
  indicator in dBm, however, seems to not work in
  the LTE network, only the bar display shows
  correct values.

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E3276 Speed ??and Connection

• The Huawei E3276 is ahead of his time in Germany
  there are (in contrast to other EU countries)
  currently only LTE category 3, a maximum of 100
  Mbit / s. Correspondingly, the data rates up to
  86 Mbit / s in LTE1800 network of Telekom we
  could measure. In the UMTS network of the stick
  is far better than the mobile network expanded
  maximum 42.2 Mbit / s via DC - HSPA , but the
  Surf Stick can hold up to 84.4 megabits / s
  download - this is achieved by combining speed DC
  - HSPA and MIMO, the network operators have
  announced some time ago that they completely
  focus on LTE and MIMO in the use of 3G networks
  is not planned. So you will probably have to live
  with the maximum of 31 Mbit / s in the future, we
  have measured the DC - HSPA network with the
  E3276.

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E3276 External Antenna

• If you have bought the necessary CRC9 to SMA
  adapter, so can also be commercially available
  connect external LTE antennas. In the test we
  measured a good signal amplification in the
  Vodafone network with the LTE TS9 MIMO antenna
  and also in the Telekom network at 1800 MHz
  brought a LTE MIMO antenna 1800 significantly
  improved data rates. However, one should pay
  attention to a stable mounting because the small
  CRC9 ports are quite delicate and therefore prone
  to damage.

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Conclusion new star among surfstick

• After our testing thing is certain the Huawei
  E3276 is a worthy successor of the Huawei E398
  and affords almost no weaknesses. The Hi9620
  modem from Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon is the
  modem from Qualcomm and Huawei least equal
  therefore deserves great respect for the
  development of its own chipset, which works so
  well. Now you can shop unlocked Huawei E3276
  without contract from www.Smart4GWiFi.com.

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• Learn More
• Huawei E3276
• http//www.smart4gwifi.com/huawei-e3276-lte-usb-mo
  dem.html
• Huawei E3276 TS9 External Antenna
• http//www.smart4gwifi.com/huawei-4g-lte-antenna-e
  589.html
• Huawei E392
• http//www.smart4gwifi.com/huawei-e392-4g-lte-wifi
  -modem.html
• Huawei E398
• http//www.smart4gwifi.com/huawei-e398-4g-usb-mode
  m.html

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