Tenda MW6 Gigabit Dual Band Mesh WiFi System for Whole Home

Bought this based on other reviewers and I'm certainly not disappointed. I chose tenda because it's half the price of equivalent mesh systems and gets loads of positive reviews. We have a challenging house for WiFi that's long, with brick walls all over it. I really wasn't winning with the router and range extenders solution. Firstly Set up: as promised by other reviewers, it really is a 20 minute job. Plug the first node into the router with the included Ethernet cable and download the app. Set up is self explanatory and easy. Then, simply plug in the other 2 nodes wherever is convenient in the house and they sort themselves out, appearing green on the diagram on the app within a few minutes. The outcome: amazing seamless WiFi through the whole house and even garden. I can't believe we didn't do this sooner. If you have any doubts about the price of this mesh compared to others, don't. Just buy it. Works really well, Simple set up. What more is there to want. Final point: there is the facility for wired "backhaul" with these units. It took me ages on the net to work out what this is. Basically, you set the nodes up wirelessly as above, but then you plug each one on to your router or switch via a single cable going from the tenda "wan port" to the router or switch. Ie 3 cables going though the house. This will speed up the WiFi to blistering rates by carrying back the way traffic from your device to the internet by the Ethernet cable, leaving the wireless channels to carry only outgoing traffic from the internet to your device. You certainly don't need to do this. I haven't, and I'm really happy with the speed. However I now have a project, and am going to run some Ethernet when I get a chance, to improve the system. It's nice to have the option, not all mesh systems have this. Very happy customer, recommend tenda!

Bought these to replace a bt whole home mesh system that never worked. The bt discs would constantly drop connection while reporting to be working fine. The tenda cubes, not only have been rock solid, but even the single cube gives better reception than the bt system. I now have WiFi in the entire house with virtually the same speed as a wired connection, and every device can access the internet via a stable connection without wires trailing all over the house. Very impressed with this one. It's about 50 quid cheaper than the bt equivalent, and is much more reliable. The app is also very easy to use, and makes it simple to see what's connected, which cube they're all connected to and their usage. It even lets you rename the cubes and devices, and to group devices so that you can pause access, e.g. to pause internet access for kids, or (as I use it) to switch off internet for a certain room or person if you want to prioritize bandwidth for the rest. Over all, this seems like a great solution for anyone wanting to go wireless if their normal router either won't reach every room, or doesn't give good signal/speed.

I will caveat my review by saying I've tried no other mesh system, so don't know if this is worse than others such as the vastly more expensive Orbi. But having seen some good reviews and tests with this (showing performance similar to Google Wifi) I decided to take the plunge. I live in a 4 bed detached house and run BT Home Hub. (the new one called Smart Hub) The Home Hub covered the house but at the extremities it could be a bit patchy and I couldn't get wifi outside on my decking. This comes nicely packaged for a 'budget' Chinese brand. Installation was ridiculously easy. You plug one of the boxes (all identical so any) into the router LAN socket on the back of the current router (you should have a few) and the LED on the white Tenda box eventually goes blue. Then you open the App and it detects the broadband settings and gets you online (you also change network name and password). Then you just plug the others in around the house and they auto connect to the first one. All worked seamlessly. In fact from what I have read they've beaten all the competition in ease of set up- fabulous for a budget brand. Initially I was very impressed. Each box has two lan ports on it. On the box that connects into your modem (they are all identical as I say) one of the lans is taken up with the connection to the modem, so it has one left over. You can still use the lans on the modem you already have also. So I have a vpn router, and have this plugged into my home hub (which has 4 lan ports) nothing changed there- works as normal. I also have other items plugged directly int the Home Hub still. The other boxes which are now 'satellites' to the main box have two lans. So I have one in my office with my Arlo home security system and my iMac plugged directly into it. I had one upstairs under the bed with my Sonos Bridge plugged into it, again worked seamlessly. However, after a few days I noticed sometimes the wireless signal would drop off a cliff. I was getting wife and kid complaints- not good. I put in Bridge Mode, you lose some functionality such as guest network option, but I read a review above that suggested doing this. I am not convinced it solved the problem. I then thought about wireless network congestion, with this running, my BT Home Hub and my VPN router. So I went into the Home Hub and turned off the wireless for that. I think (think) this has resolved the problem as it doesn't seem to have happened again in a few days, I will report back if it does. I also note that sometimes the signal fluctuates. I believe this is because it sends the signal in the direction of the device and so it can start out slow, then drastically speed up as it channels the signal towards the device. Despite us having a full strength connections on the Xbox my son was complaining of high pings. I observed this myself- the ping would fluctuate on Fortnite from say 30 to 800 then back down again- not good - he was complaining of lag. I am no networking expert and not sure why, particularly when this wasn't happening when the Xbox was connected directly to the Home Hub with a much weaker signal on the Xbox wifi strength , but suspect it may be something to do with The Tenda not having a separate backhaul (separate channel to send the data between the units) and it slowing data transfer when other items are connected to the satellite- A guess though. Orbi has a separate backhaul channel, albeit I have seen people reporting higher pings on that also. So who knows. It may also be that the unit isn't great at prioritising traffic and there is no manual setting you can do, again unlike some of the more expensive units. We have resolved this by moving one of the satellites next to the Xbox from upstairs- and connecting in via Lan. The ping is now under 40 and often in the 20s so is fine. Fortunately the satellite positioning where the Xbox is seems to work well anyway for good wifi coverage throughout the house, so nothing lost. One to bear in mind though. Now I can get two or three bars of wifi signal all over the house including decking and it often seems to max out my connection at 40 meg. Also turn off the overnight reset. For some reason it is set up to reboot every night at 4am, you can adjust this or turn it off. I was finding all my devices disconnected overnight and logged onto my VPN router instead, so turned this function off. I also didn't want it turning off every night, and rebooting as I am running an Arlo security system. Edit, even with the Xbox connected to the Lan, Pings again went high. Thus I cannot recommend this for gaming. We had to put the Xbox on a homeplug. In other respects though it's good. Tends need to sort out the ping issue when gaming.

Ottimo sistema mesh Wi-Fi! Facile da installare e configurare tramite app, ha eliminato i punti morti del segnale in tutta la casa e mantiene connessioni stabili anche con molti dispositivi collegati. Ideale per streaming e smart home con un eccellente rapporto qualità-prezzo!

Facile à installer

I'm using both mw3 and mw6 , here mw6 range mention 6000sq but in reality both range are same there no different in my opinion if you looking for best range please go for TP-LINK

Plug & play doslownie. Dotychczas mialem problem z wifi w domku 3 pietrowym, zadne wifi extansions nie pomagaly, a sygnal po powerline byl klopotliwy. Podlaczenie tego zestawu zajelo doslownie 5 min i mam pokrycie wifi w calym domu bez problemu.

2 sets sent out both had problems