The Gigacube is what Vodafone has christened the more forgettably named Huawei B528s-23a, a device that’s almost two-years-old. Vodafone doesn’t even try to hide the fact that this is first and foremost a Huawei product. There’s a big Huawei logo on top and there’s no mention of Vodafone, or Gigacube for that matter, anywhere.

The router is essentially a white cylinder which looks like a distant relative of a Glade automatic spray bathroom freshener. It’s made of plastic – no surprise there – and has four status lights on the front (signal, LAN, Wi-Fi and power), along with power and WPS buttons. At the back is a flap that covers two connectors to hook up an external antenna as well as a phone socket (unused), a Gigabit LAN/WAN port and a proprietary power connector.

Underneath you’ll find a SIM card slot (Vodafone pre-populated it with a data SIM with unlimited data for testing purposes) and all the details of the default settings (two SSIDs plus Wi-Fi key, as well as the login and password for the admin panel).