How Acer’s latest connectivity devices level-up and fix your internet setup, home and away

Routers are often right up there with printers as our most-detested bits of home tech. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Acer’s latest connectivity range of routers will not only solve your at-home connectivity issues, it can get you hooked up when you’re out and about too.

How? It’s thanks to Acer’s 2026 Connectivity range’s adoption of a bunch of our favourite technologies, both well-established and new.

First up is the mesh network. This is our number one tip for solving black spots in your home Wi-Fi coverage. It’s a technology that lets you place multiple nodes across your home to flood the whole space in signal.

The Acer Connect Ovia T360 and Ovia T520 are the two latest and greatest mesh routers, bringing benefits like Wi Fi 7 and the 6GHz band to the table. Both models are coming as a single pack or a combo pack of 2 or even 3 devices which delivers edge latency, bandwidth and speed, further making sure you basically don’t need to think about your home networking hardware once it’s setup.

Well, aside from giving it the once over with a duster every now and then.

But perhaps it’s time to rethink your home internet from the ground up, ditch your current ISP plan and go mobile. No, we’re not talking about just tethering from your phone, which in our experience can become an almighty faff if you need to connect a household’s worth of devices.

Acer’s Connect range also offers dedicated 5G mobile internet devices for the job. Mobile hotspots can be ideal for frequent travellers. That’s not news. But we’ve seen a huge rise in popularity of static at-home mobile internet units that can be used as a direct replacement for a home broadband router.

With Acer’s Connect M4 and M4D you get the best of both worlds. With M4 you get a long-lasting battery and ruggedised finish for on-the-go travel use. The M4D comes with a docking station. When docked you can treat the Connect M4D just like a home broadband router. But it also has its own 15-hour battery for roving use.

Whether you stick to traditional home broadband or opt too try a 5G mobile internet solution, you still get all the most important Acer benefits with multiple connect options. That means headache-free setup and management and enterprise-grade protection, including WPA 3 encryption, built-in firewalls and support for VPN use.

Let’s take a closer look at the latest additions to the Acer Connect range to see which is right for you.

Acer Connect Ovia T360: Ideal for city living

This mesh router is ideal for a huge proportion of UK homes. It provides 90 square metres of coverage per node, making it a great fit for apartment and smaller homes. It’s still a WiFi 7 router with latency-reducing Multi-Link Operation and wireless speeds of up to 3,600Mbps.

Not only is that likely to be far higher than what you’d get from 5G providers in the UK, it’s in excess of what you’ll need for even a busy household’s worth of devices operating simultaneously.

Acer Connect Ovia T520: Perfect fit for larger homes

There is a step up model, though. The Acer Connect Ovia T520 supports a third 6GHz transmission band and a more advanced 6-antenna array for improved performance. It is rated for up to 110 square metres per node, and a top speed of  9,300Mbps.

This one is ideal for larger and more demanding tech-packed households. We’re also glad it offers three LAN RJ45 ports for wired connection, which we prefer when using game consoles and PCs that benefit from the lowest possible latency. Every millisecond matters for competitive gaming. 

Acer Connect M4: Travel pal

If you’re looking for a portable internet solution to complement your home router, Acer offers the Connect M4. This tough-looking little character only weighs about as much as a phone but has a massive 8,000mAh battery for up to 28 hours of use.

It still provides 5G speeds of up to 2.77Gbps, and has its own 2.4-inch touchscreen to show your data usage, how many devices are connected, the battery life and more. Designed to be taken almost anywhere, the Acer Connect M4 is water resistant IP68, fit for full submersion in water. It supports a physical Nano SIM, eSIM or virtual SIM too, and can handle 16 simultaneous device connections. Too lazy to connect all those devices? You can do it easily just by scanning a QR code.

Acer Connect M4D: For unparalleled flexibility

This has to be our favourite of the bunch, though. The Acer Connect M4D is a little hybrid mobile internet box of magic. When you need a Wi-Fi hotspot it’s just that, a mobile unit that weighs just over 200g and provides up to 15 hours of internet access for 16 concurrent devices.

It slides in a pocket, supports physical and virtual SIMs as well as an eSIM. But for fuss-free use at home you slide the Acer Connect M4D into its dock. This is used to charge the main unit and adds an RJ45 Ethernet port for connection to your computer, or whatever device you want to give a rock-solid cabled connection.

For more details, check out the full Acer connectivity range.