NEW CradlePoint MBR1200B Wireless Router - IEEE 802.11n (MBR1200B )

Works great, good stable connection with a usb modem. Lots of options, auto restart, failover, whitelist, bridging. Highly recommend. Only one thing wrong, the 1200 had 2 sma ports for antennas, this one does not.

[Skip to the last paragraph to avoid all my ranting and find a possible solution if you are having VPN (and possibly other) problems with this device.]I'm so tired of troubleshooting this device I don't know if I have enough energy to write this review. We used (or attempted to use) this device with a AT&T USB Momentum card. The Internet connection seemed to work fine, but that's where it ends. Actually, I take that back. In the three days I've been attempting to use it I'd come in in the morning and find it was no longer connected to the Internet, with no changes having been made. Wireless? Flaky. Dropped all the time three feet away from the router. Change a setting affecting the modem? Won't reconnect until you either power cycle the device or pull the modem and plug it back in. Web interface for administering? Just stops loading certain pages sometimes. Not even a power cycle would bring it back one time - had to factory reset. VPN? Ehhhnnnn (buzzer sound). Won't even ATTEMPT to connect. Spent quite some time with front line support trying to get the VPN to work. It wasn't a matter of some Phase 1 or Phase 2 incompatibility, the device simply would never even attempt to make the connection. Support kept trying to blame AT&T on assigning bad IP/routing info. The fact that the CradlePoint and my endpoint could both ping each other didn't seem to convince them otherwise. Nor did the fact that I could plug the USB momentum into a laptop and use an IPSec client to establish a VPN connection to my endpoint with all the same settings without issue. Finally they threw up their hands and told me I'd need to pay for enterprise level support to further troubleshoot to get this thing to do the thing we bought it for.As a last resort I started loading successively older firmware revisions. I started with 4.2.1. I went back through four revisions until I finally got the oldest available on their website (3.6.3). Whaddya know, the VPN magically came up on this firmware, having changed NO OTHER settings other than the firmware. Nice quality control, CradlePoint - you've had this issue for THREE firmware revisions??? Just to verify I went back to 4.0.3. Broken. Back to 3.6.3. Fixed.In 4.0.3 (on their website the next version after 3.6.3) they introduced a concept known as WAN binding to the VPN setup. It allows you to associate the VPN to certain WAN interfaces. So for example, if you were using both Ethernet and a modem as your wan connections (one for a backup or something) you could bind the VPN to only one of those connections so that it only worked on the modem connection (or the Ethernet connection, whichever you chose). In later firmwares I've tried forcing the binding to the modem connection but no luck. I think this binding option has broken it altogether because the option is not present in 3.6.3. In later firmwares it does not even ATTEMPT to make the VPN connection (when using the modem - I could create a VPN using Ethernet as the WAN just fine), which sounds to me like the VPN has a problem binding to the modem connection. Maybe it is an issue with just the AT&T Momentum, but I wouldn't be surprised if more (or maybe even all) modems have this issue with the CradlePoint. Maybe an issue with any LTE modem forced to 3G? (since we have to force ours to 3G to get the static IP from AT&T - not supported on LTE yet). I don't know, I'll just have to stick with 3.6.3. I'm spent enough time doing CradlePoint's quality control for them.

I have an MBR1200b version 1 and have used it for years. It's failing and I need to replace it. The problem is that, according to Cradlepoint, the MBR1200b has no more support. As stated by Cradlepoint, "This product was announced as End of Life on August 25, 2011 and the last firmware release was version 2.2.1 posted on April 4, 2013."I can't see purchasing a product that has expired support.

We live in a rural area and the local broadband company offers turtle-slow DSL and nonexistant customer service. I worked with a cellular provider who sent me-at no risk a USB cellular modem. The speed was 6X of the local DSL. Installed in the Cradlepoint, I've now got wired and wireless access for all our devices.Easily configured, easily customized for security, this thing is great.

The device itself is great, worked as expected.As for customer support forget about it if you don't spend the $28/yr. The issue I ran into was with site to site VPN using AT&T modems. We had 4 to setup, and our static IP addressing was sequential from ATT. Problem is since CP, doesn't know the ATT gateway info, it guesses. For example 199.195.122.200 might be your IP, well it uses 199.195.122.201 as your gateway. However if you have another card actually using x.201 then when you try to setup both tunnels to say a Cisco ASA it will fail. Support knows this as they deduced it before ever seeing my config. However would not tell me how to fix it without a contract. Kept calling it a config issue, which it is, but only because their device guessed poorly on the gateway. After going around and around with them I finally got them to confirm all I needed to do was put an IP override in the modem section. Override the gateway to 199.195.122.1 255.255.255.0, and it works. That's how the device should guess, just use x.x.x.1, you would be far less likely to step on another IP, rather than using the ip +-2 or 3.Shame, before the CradleCare bs, you could actually call up and get decent support.

This is not easy to configure and the documentation is sub standard. As a former IT professional I found it not as good as previous products that Cradlepoint has offered. The documentation is inadequate. It loses connectivity sporadically and sometimes won't reconnect without a reboot.

I purchased this specifically for the wifi as WAN functionality and it works perfectly. Very easy to set up. Highly recommend.

This is a quality product, it took a little while to setup but once I did I couldn't be happier. I took a usb air card and now have a multi-user hotspot with a great range plus it has 4 ethernet ports you can use if you have a printer or computer that doesn't support wireless. I didn't use it but it also has the capability to use a network connection to provide additional network ports and add wireless capability and use the usb air card as a fallback.