Motorola Tri-Band AC2200 Mesh Smart Router, 2.2 Gbps speed | MH7020 series 1,2,3 Pack

Love being able to see all devices and their network activety as well as being able to assign devices to different users.

This has made a big difference in my streaming.

Like many other Google OnHub users who got the bad news in their email today that Google is dropping support for OnHubs, I needed a drop-in replacement with similar functionality. Which is fine, I guess, because also like many other Google OnHub users, my OnHub has also gotten the overnight disconnection cancer. By which I mean, for some reason, over the past year, the OnHub has started refusing to pass traffic for no discernible reason at the exact same time every single night, causing every device on my network to lose connection until I get up and reboot it. Since there's no log functionality whatsoever on the OnHub, there's no way to determine what is causing the problem and Google has been ignoring it for some time now, refusing to push firmware updates to fix long-existing problems. It was time for the OnHub to go into the OnTrash.I wanted a drop-in replacement with identical or very similar functionality. I wanted a device that was simple to configure, which did nothing but route traffic between my other network devices and the Internet, which could be controlled with an app on my phone and get notifications when the device goes offline. And it couldn't have been a coincidence that the Motorola MH7021 came out when it did, because its functionality is nearly identical to that of the OnHub and offers all of these features.I learned long ago to never count on a router to do more than one thing. That probably had a lot to do with the device being a drop-in replacement for its predecessor. All of my network routing etc. is configured on devices behind the AP so that if I need to replace the AP quickly I can just unplug it and drop another one in.That said, this device was very easy to configure with only the one expected start-up problem which were not the new device's fault: I had to reboot the cable modem because it won't pass traffic for a device that has a different MAC address from the one already connected until it's rebooted. A few of my devices had to be rebooted or instructed to request a new internal IP address.TL;DR: All I had to do to get online was. Plug my network cables into the LAN and WAN ports. Plug in the power. Put the Motosync app on my mobile device. Open the Motosync app and scan the QR code on the device. Set up an account. Follow the prompts to do a firmware update. Wait five minutesAfter that my network was online and functioning. Now I'll talk about the initial user experience.First of all, the device extracts every single bit of bandwidth from my Internet plan. I'm on the 100mbit plan and I get 119.22mb/s which is exactly the plan allowance plus the courtesy overhead (the extra bandwidth the ISP provides to make sure you get the whole 100mb/s during network load) minus the pedestal overhead (the small amount of bandwidth consumed by the neighborhood router).The UI in the mobile app is very simple, although the way it conveys information is perhaps more simplified than I'd like for it to be. It's even more dumbed down than the OnHub interface.Things I do not like about it thus far:1. Upon startup the device immediately detected every single device that connected from my network as a "threat" and put a huge red skull dead center in the app UI warning me about them. Hello, Moto. Devices connecting normally to the network for the first time are not a "threat." All you're doing here is fear mongering.2. In the product description the network filter service is called "ad blocking" but in the app it's called "network filter. It has 2 settings: On and Off.The ad blocking service does not inform the user which ad blocking list it's using and there is no user-configurable setting to whitelist sites or add/remove block lists. It seems to be working fine now, in the first hour of my using the device, but I'm sure that very soon I'll have to turn it off, since it will block a service I need access to. Which is unfortunate because in my initial testing, it blocks ads very well. It even blocks ads on Youtube, which I'm sure Google will be all up in Motorola's area for very soon. Based on how good the ad blocking is at the outset, I'm guessing they're using a public list, but I can't tell which list it is because the AP downloads it from Motorola's server. So it seems they're downloading the list to their own server, then feeding it to their devices from their own servers.As previously mentioned, the device's configuration UI is incredibly simple. I can see this being a problem in the future because although there is an "Advanced Network Settings" menu, the only item is to forward ports. There's no way to enable or disable UPnP.As previously mentioned, this device is incredibly simple and performs almost zero functionality other than to be a access point appliance. People who are coming from a gaming router such as the Netgear Nighthawk that has awful reliability but offers ten million features will be disappointed. People who want to just plug a box in and have internet access that they c...

We spent years setting up a whole house, wireless streaming network when there was not a lot available to do that. We have been through upwards of a dozen routers, improving on the last as we can. Part of the trouble (a big part) is that I am in a rural area in Hawaii and we do not get a very strong signal from our provider, so we have to be careful not to compromise it with weak equipment. Our last router was a Motorola, which (finally) got a wifi signal in our kids' room at the other end of the house. We have a 4,000 sf house which is long and narrow, an artifact of the prior owners adding on and adding on, so our kids' roms are quite a distance from the modem (down by our study). While the last router did get a signal to the other end of the house, it was not very strong. We do have extenders, but still the signal was very attenuated. When I read my kindle in bed, I could get a signal if I move to the end of the bed (less than ideal). With this router I can sit back and stioll get 4 bars. In fact, I walked down to our garage (the furthest point in the house) and had a strong signal from the extenders, and, remarkably, still saw the router at the opposite end of the house. I could have connected (with 1 bar) but it is remarkable to me that it even showed up as an option, several hundred feet away.My husband set it up in literally 2-3 minutes. He did not need to set up the app. Set up was much like any of a number of routers we have used.For us, moving up from the last generation of Motorola router it was not an enormous difference in terms of distance, but makes everything easier. A few feet is the difference between being able to read, sitting back, before I go to sleep, and having to perch on the edge of the bed to get a signal, and there is now a solid signal in our kids' rooms.Other than the router we are using the same equipment we had before, only having to update the password. Since we did not change anything else, I know that the improvement we are seeing is the router.

I needed a new router to replace the old one that I was using. I had bought a new one but it needed a coaxial input rather than an ethernet/WAN/LAN input. Since this one uses an ethernet/WAN/LAN input, I had to get it. I like the look of the router - it is sleek and blends in without looking like a router. The cables also go into the bottom of the back, so they do not stick out at all. Set up was super simple. All I did was take it out of the box, plug it into the ethernet port, plug it into the wall outlet, and then turn it on. It has a preset name and unique password on the back. I have not measured the speed but there was a noticable difference between this router and my old router. Now I can stream videos in HD with no buffering at all.