Mobile hotspots and travel routers
Keep a plain phone in your pocket and give your laptop or tablet the internet when you need it. A hotspot takes its own SIM and shares mobile data over Wi-Fi. We check each one's 4G bands against every network in Australia.
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Telstra 5G Wi-Fi Hotspot Pocket hotspot · 5G from $169
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ZTE MU5001 Pocket hotspot · 5G from $434.88
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Netgear Nighthawk 5G M7 Pocket hotspot · 5G from $599
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Netgear Nighthawk M6 Pocket hotspot · 5G from $639.36
What the band check means
Networks send 4G over several frequency bands, and a hotspot can only use the bands it was built for. "All its 4G bands" means the hotspot can use every band the network runs. "Some of its 4G bands" means it will connect, but where the network only has the bands it lacks, the signal will be weaker or missing. The bands come from the maker's spec page for the model sold in Australia, and the network's own or published band list.