Tenda Nova Mesh WiFi System MW6 - Covers up to 4-6 Bedroom Houses- AC1200 Whole Home WiFi Mesh System - Gigabit Dual-Band Mesh Network - Replaces Wireless Router and WiFi Extender - 3-Pack

I am an experienced network tech and am more than happy with the Tenda Nova solution. First, price - I purchased two three packs for the special price of $120. One was for a neighbor and the other for me. A brief word regarding the two houses these units were placed in. My neighbor and I both live in Ecuador. Almost all houses here have concrete wals, floor, and ceilings. This makes connectivity throughout a house extremely difficult. My neighbors house is approximately 3,000 sq feet and relatively thin and long. Her ISP’s connection is at the extreme end of the house and she has never had reliable connectivity at the opposite end of the house. My house is a three story building. I have always had a wifi router placed in my attic, and a repeater on the first floor. The performance on the first floor was spotty AND streaming video in my TV room on the second floor (Roku) was inconsistent at best. Setup - I had already downloaded the Tenda IOS app prior to receving the units so I was ready to go. Plugged in the first unit and received a notification that it was using a DHCP connection in less than a minute. Then it was time to add the next two units. Because the Tenda units are pre-linked all that is required is that you locate the two companion units in a suitable location and wait while they boot up and connect. I have significant experience with Google Wifi and Eero and although I love both of these products their setup is a bit more involved. Also, because the Tenda units are pre-linked (and the notice to simply plug in the 2 additional units is rather small) users might try to use the Tenda app feature to add another Tenda unit (which will fail). Just follow the directions and plug the other two units in, check they have a good signal, and you’re good to go. Performance - living in Ecuador bandwith is expensive. My neighbor only has a low speed DSL connection at 5Mbps (on a good day) mine is a fiber connection at 50Mbps. Many of the online performance tests for the Tenda unit put them a little below or above the Google wifi product and below the Eero. For the speeds we have here in Ecuador the aggregate throughput of the Tenda is MORE than ample. In my neighbor’s house i had 100% wifi signal throughout the entire house. A solid 3.5Mbs on speedtest throughout the house (this is her typical wired performance with DSL). Similar experience in my house. A consistent 49Mbps everywhere. IOS App - the Tenda app is almost identical in look to the Eero application. I don’t like the upload/download indicators at the top of the Tenda app as much as Eero’s bandwidth testing results. Tenda’s app gives you an instantaneous measurement rather than a bandwidth test history (which I prefer). I also wish there was a restart option to reboot the units (although I haven’t yet had any need to reboot anything). Nice and simple app that gives you access to the basic things you need. If you’re a tech or advanced user used to a web based router interface with access to deep features this will be dissapointing but that’s not who or what this sytem (or Google wifi, eero, etc) is geared towards. Tech support - I have seen some negative comments in people’s reviews of Tenda’s tech support. I had no need to speak with technical support during or after purchase (yet). I did however contact them prior to purchase to ask some questions. Got through instantly. The agent realized my questions were more technical than she could answer and suggested I speak with an engineer who she promised would call back. Got a call later that day and got knowledgeable answers to my questions. In summary, the product in my experience is a great, low cost, mesh solution. Incredibly easy to install. Decent application. Good tech support. Great performance (for my situation). Amazing value for the money. Highly recommended.

This mesh system works great! The setup was quick and simple, and the WiFi coverage improved a lot in my home. The signal is strong in every room and it handles multiple devices without slowing down. Very reliable and great value for the price. Highly recommend! 📶

Bought the Tenda in July of this year and the package arrived quickly and to my surprise it was well protected. Once the application is downloaded to your cellular, tablet or computer (in my case was a Samsung S10+) the installation is performed fast and without any hitches. The addition of satellite (wireless nodes as they call them) is done within seconds. I have a 1320 square foot apartment with a lot of concrete walls and there was no interference whatsoever. The system was working great and the coverage was better than ever with no dips in speed. After six weeks of use the wireless node (satellite) stopped working and the small indicator would not change from the color magenta. I followed the trouble shooting guide to no avail doing everything it explained like pressing the reset button for "x" amount of seconds, placing the wireless node closer to its primary and even making the faulty node the primary and the one that was correctly working the satellite. Once I realized that all that I had done did not work I called their customer service and spoke to a very professional gentlemen who walked my through Tenda's trouble shooting parameters to reassure that the wireless node was indeed faulty. The phone call lasted close to 30 minutes since but was very cordial and professional. The tech support realized that the problem was definitely a "hardware issue" and asked me to send them an email (with photographs) detailing where I had purchased the equipment, model number and serial number. I sent the email and within a window of 24 hours received a email from Amit stating that he would be the one to assist me from this moment on. Amit's professionalism was outstanding! Thanks to his patience and guidance I was able to return the item and will be receiving a new node in approximately five business days. Will update this product review once the new node has been installed. ***November 2, 2019 UPDATE *** I have not received the second unit yet but received the UPS tracking number so that's the good new. The BAD News is that the Tenda router died on me yesterday. Spent roughly 2 hours troubleshooting the system to no avail.

I have been using this product for a week and no issues. Prior to my purchase, I had purchased a router from a big box store that was a pain in the rear to set up. When I was unable to make a small change I returned it a few days after the purchase. I have gone through a few routers in the past and they were a HUGE HASSLE to set up. WOW is all I can say. I was impressed from the moment I opened the Amazon box and saw the silhouette of the Tenda MW6. The device(s) or elegant cubes as my wife calls them came in a handsome box that is not typical for what the Netgear and Linksys giants offer. Upon opening the well crafted black box you find the three "elegant cubes" positioned equally in foam along with the power adapters. I have to admit I watched a youtube video to make sure the install went smoothly. You are directed to download the app to set up the device. WOW WOW WOW, Super Easy and efficient! I am shocked that my prior Netgear routers were not this easy. This is a great product that helps spread and balance the bandwidth stress from all of the computers. phones, tablets, and smart tv's in my home. The guest wifi was a snap. The hardest part was creating a password. I give this product 10 stars due to its price. It may not be the fastest but I now have a strong signal in parts of my house that were dead zone, Great Product, Great Value! By this before you consider buying an over priced mesh wifi system.

SO we moved to a MESH supposedly WHOLE HOUSE system to cover the dropouts we were experiencing in Wifi signal. We started with 1 set of the MW6, thinking this would solve our problems since the MW6 is supposed to provide a saturated Wifi signal over up to a 6000 sq ft home according to the manufacturer. NOT! ... First off this system has the inherent problem of having your devices AUTOMATICALLY CONNECT to the FARTHEST not the closest MW6 Nova that it can find, which of course degrades the speed and quality of the Wifi signal to that device and since the only way to control this system is through the smartphone app (no web interface) and your phone is going to connect to the farthest unit it can find you can imagine how this plays havoc with everything regarding control of this system, sometimes not even being able to find a network signal to connect to! ...and to make matters worse, there is no way to ASSIGN a device to the CLOSEST MW6 Nova! YIKES! Additionally, when running a system analyzer, come to find out that even though there is a competitive neighbors Wifi in the area using the same Channel, the MW6 is not changing channels to avoid the low SNR (signal to noise ratio) we are seeing and to make it worse, this system has NO WAY TO MANUALLY CHANGE CHANNELS to avoid the interfering Wifi signal! After contacting Tenda's tech support multiple times regarding these issues, I was offered no solutions and was told my feedback was valuable input. I was furious since Tenda seems to have adopted so many other big tech companies philosophy of put the product out there and let the consumer tell us how to make it better! ...I'm not buying anyones product to do their R&D to make their systems better! UPDATE... The FLAWS of ALL MESH SYSTEMS and AMAZONS ECHO and other smart home devices. Thinking of a buying MESH router to use with smart home devices… DON’T! After almost a year of putting up with the inherent FLAWS in MESH and smart home technology, I’ve come to the conclusion that none of the manufacturers of either technology have tested using them together! Otherwise, they would have FIXED the issues plaguing BOTH technologies when being used together as most people do these days! The Good… MESH routers with multiple nodes do provide excellent signal coverage and can overcome areas in your home with weak or no wifi coverage. The Bad… MESH router systems regardless of the number of nodes installed will provide you nothing but headaches if you intend to use ANY smart home devices that are 5ghz capable such as Amazon’s echo devices and the plethora of others out there. ANY smart home deice that supports 5ghz by default also supports 2.4ghz. This typically results in the device constantly switching back and forth between bandwidths attempting to find the best signal. A Major FLAW in the design of todays systems regardless of manufacturer. This Bouncing between bandwidths plays havoc with so called “smart” systems that have voice and other ways of controlling other devices on your network. Devices such as Amazon echo’s that trigger timers, routines and carry out voice commands, require both the echo and the device being triggered to be on the same bandwidth. Since 5ghz enabled devices are always searching for the strongest bandwidth to use between the 2.4ghz (designed for distance) and 5ghz (designed for speed) and since you can’t restrict them OR your MESH router as to which bandwidth to stay on. Another flaw of MESH routers is they are notorious for intermittent device dropouts regardless of bandwidth possibly due to flipping channels seeking the best channel to broadcast on. The Ugly… 1. MESH routers currently do not allow for disabling the 5ghz bandwidth which would prevent the bouncing between bandwidth problem. 2. You cannot use the “Guest” network feature with smart home devices. Another culprit adding to the bouncing issue! 3. Another FLAW of MESH systems is that they do not allow for control to “statically bind” specific devices to their closest nodes. There is no reason that any device within a local area (3-10ft) of any node should decide to connect to a more distant MESH node 40 feet away on the other side of the house! While I’m sure that manufacturers will have to address these issues in the future, until manufactures of BOTH technologies step to the plate and FIX their respective FLAWS, if you intend to use your Wifi setup with ANY smart home device that supports BOTH 2.4 and 5ghz, expecting it to work as the manufacturers advertise, for the sake of your sanity DON’T BUY A MESH ROUTER! Current options for a SOLUTION… Bearing in mind you will need to disable 5ghz and the Guest network features on any router, don’t spend a lot of money by buying the Best router available! Buy a router along with multiple wired access points preferred over wireless wifi extenders/repeaters that will further slow your network speed and may cause buffering issues on streaming devices. The SETUP…Your router along with wired access points to blanket the house with coverage all must be named the same SSID and password and the 5ghz and the Guest network features MUST be disabled! This will stop the bouncing around between bandwidths and/or guest networks of the ECHO and other 5ghz smart home devices thus ensuring all wifi signals are kept on the same 2.4ghz SSID for all smart home devices to recognize, allowing you to keep your sanity when expecting a voice command, timer or routine to trigger something!

I’ve been using the Tenda Nova MW6 Mesh WiFi System for a while, and it’s been fantastic! Setting it up was super quick and easy through the app, and now the coverage around my home is seamless—no more dead spots or dropped connections. The speed is consistent, and the system automatically connects my devices to the strongest signal. It’s reliable, affordable, and perfect for anyone who wants strong WiFi in every room. I highly recommend it!

It's only been a day but so far, I really like it. The system comes in an attractive box (big deal). The printed documentation is adequate. It might be helpful to note that the doco says to download the "Tenda WiFi" app from Google (not 'the TendaApp' as some have said). After rebooting the modem and powering on, it was easy to log in with the SSID and password on the bottom of the box and then change the SSID and password to match our old system. Adding nodes was a bit confusing. The "Add Nova" option (to add nodes) produced an error message saying something like "No new Nova Detected." Graphically, it then "added" the second and eventually the third nodes by turning them from orange to green. I guess what they're saying is that these were already paired at the factory so they're not "new." You probably could just plug them in and wait for them to be added. Our home is a 2100 square foot ranch/rambler that is probably 60+ feet from end to end (built in 1957). On the back is a 14 X 26 foot family room (1992) addition. In the main part of the house, the walls are wet plaster with rock lath and chicken wire, almost like a Faraday cage. RF doesn't pass easily between rooms. The main unit/gateway was placed in my "radio room" at the far end of the house. The 2nd node was placed in the living room (about 30 feet away) and the 3rd node went on the floor of the family room (another 30 feet away). All units show the friendly blue light indicating excellent connection. The main unit is connected with a 5 port Netgear switch to wire in two Windows 10 PCs and a Flex Radio 6300 (essentially a radio server that is accessible by other PCs in the house). I also use both Ethernet ports on the 3rd node and they work fine for streaming audio to our AVR and video to a tired dual core Windows PC. As advertised, you can walk throughout the home with a WiFi device and see no differentiation between nodes or the band being used. Our ISP is Comcast which advertises speeds of up to 100 MBPS down. This morning, I saw 120 MBPS through both wired PCs and my Amazon Kindle (which does have 5 GHz WiFi). Walking to the far end of the house, I have seen as high as 85 MBPS via WiFi. Most of the time, speed tests show 50-60 MBPS at the far end. Just now, I got 120 MBPS down hard wired and 48+ at the far end (peak evening time) on my $99 Android cell phone which does not have 5 GHz WiFi. So, is it screaming fast, no. Is it adequate for what we're going to do with it (including streaming Amazon Prime Video, which works fine via WiFi on the 3rd or farthest node), yes very much so. Our previous WiFi setup was an Asus AC 1300 dual band router that almost covered the main part of the house. One it the Asus' ports was connected to a TP-Link Ethernet over Powerline device that placed another dual band WiFi hotspot in our family room. It was rated at 1200 MBPS. PConnected to our former Wowway 30 MBPS internet service, it delivered 14 MBPS on a good day. The Powerline device also spewed all kinds of garbage on every ham radio band 40 meters and above. Soooooo... it had to go. The Tenda provides far better coverage (RF) and throughput than the Asus/TP-Link combo (that was temporarily connected to the 100 MBPS Comcast feed and didn't do much better). IMHO, mesh networking is the way to go. The Tenda Nova MW6 provides reasonable service to our almost RF proof house. It doesn't interfere with other devices.

Update: The second node won’t stay connected to the main node. I’ve had to reset the system to add the second node back several times. For my needs this isn’t better than just having a regular router because all my devices connect to the primary node only. There’s also no improvement in range and I get less Mbps than my ISP provider’s system. Original: It looks nice. Its sleek, modern, and compact. Initially it set up with no issues. However, after my internet service provider provisioned my new modem to connect to their service appropriately, I had an issue with it recognizing both boxes and had to delet them and add them back to the app which took a couple of tries before it worked. I bout this instead of Eero to save a little money, but it isn't that much cheaper so i'm not sure if I will keep it. It says I will get about 500 sqft range more and so I decided to try it. I'm really not sure if I am getting the advertised range or not, I've not tried to test the range and have only installed it yesterday . My house is 3,000 sq ft so I wanted a little overage to cover the cameras outside, keyless doorknobs and wifi garage. Our house isn't heavy gadget loaded and we don't have a big yard, so 3,500 -4,500 is sq ft coverage is good for us. It is supposed to get up to 300 Mbps upload speed on 2.4g, but I'm not seeing this. I'm seeing 200 Mbps or less even within close range. The max I've seen so far is about 250. On 5g I can get very close to 300Mbps but its quoted at a higher rate. In that regards, I'm not impressed. With my internet service provider's equipment, I was seeing over 350 Mbps upload speed on 2.4g. My plan is 400 so this is what I would expect. I knew this equipment would only reach up to 300 but I expected to see closer to 300 since other reviewers boasted that it improved thier speed. The speed issue is 99% due to this mesh system. The modem I bought to replace the one provided by my internet service provider has ability to provide up to 857 Mbps upload speed It doesn't come with a lot of ethernet connection ports. I think this is a slight downside. I do like that each box comes with at least 1 ethernet port however. The tri-band one this brand sells has 3 ports for a higher price tag, but it doesn't suggest higher Mbps upload speed so I'm not really sure its worth it. There doesn't seem to be a way to control if you connect to 2.4g or 5g. Which means you can't control how to best maximize the internet traffice. If there is one, its not clear how to do it. I thought the app would have this option but I don't see it. The app doesn't seem to let you remove devices that are no longer online nor does it automatically remove them from your device list once they go offlie. It sits there in your list of devices. That's a little annoying. If you have a household using a lot of gadgets, this list will get big and make it harder to manage. It has an option to block devices on the app but I haven't tried it out. The app isn't the best. Its extremly basic. This may be good for some but I feel its lacking. I will test it a few weeks, but I'm thinking I may get the Eero and return this, primarily because the Eero boast the ability to provide up to 500 Mbps upload speed. For my household, we can manage even on 100 Mbps, its only 2 of us, but I pay for 400 so I'd like to have access the speed I have or at least very close to it. I bought this one over the Eero because of the range and the look, but the tradeofffs of the upload Mbps is making me reconsider.

Awesome

1. Bought from Tenda Australia and it does come with AU plug. 2. Office: connected 1 node in bridge mode to LAN port off the wall. Got our office space 3-4x faster speeds than current wifi setup; more stable too. We have a corner office space in a building floor and I was able to get a signal at the far end opposite corner more than 30m away behind several walls. 3. Home: Currently using only 1 node in a medium sized house. Now getting coverage in all parts of all rooms. Full speeds where I used to have some signal before, and partial speeds where I used to have no signal at all. Also reached outside the house and into the garage in the floor below separated by thick concrete. I can easily plug i the 2nd node to get full speeds all through out. Cons/needs improvement. - app dark mode pls; too bright. - Parental controls - would be better to have an option to block specific websites only and/or throttle the speeds instead of cutting off Internet entirely. - Qos: ability to set/limit Internet bandwidth per device or group. - Guest: have an option to limit bandwidth and set no password.

Preço meio salgado, peguei dias antes do prime day. Fora isso, super fácil de instalar, basta plugar ele na internet, pelo aplicativo Tenda WiFi você se conecta na rede dele, e já configura o wi-fi. Super rápido e fácil de configurar. O roteador Nova fica conectado ao roteador principal (porta LAN do roteador principal com a porta WAN do NOVA), cobertura? simplesmente fantástica! o roteador fica no quarto, a quase 10 metros de distância, fora as paredes que tem como bloqueio de sinal e mesmo assim o sinal chega full em todos os cômodos da casa, inclusive na cozinha/sala. Valeu o investimento. Vou deixar até de usar o roteador que tinha deixado como repetidor de sinal aqui no cômodo onde trabalho.

Super fast, a little more tricky to set up (took 5 minutes instead of 2) this has increased the wifi around the house as I wanted....my home is quite large (500sqM+) and has lots of concrete and steels, so i thought this top up would help....I have Sky Q installed on a separate Mesh, and use the old Sky 2 router and BBand or TV is usually woeful (SKY Q router not man enough for my home and already has to Sky boosters), but Tenda mesh works perfectly alongside what I have when set up in "bridge" mode...not the cheapest available, but its the best I have used in the 15 years I have lived here. I have about 30 devices connected too which Tenda copes with well....and I have 35Mbs not the super fast BB as that is all my BT junction box will support.

Die Tenda Nova MW6 ist zweifellos eine herausragende Lösung für alle, die mit einem schwachen WLAN-Signal in ihrer Wohnung zu kämpfen haben. Nachdem ich dieses Mesh-System installiert habe, bin ich äußerst zufrieden mit seiner Leistung und möchte eine Bewertung von 5 von 5 Sternen vergeben. Die Einrichtung des Tenda Nova MW6 war denkbar einfach. Das System besteht aus mehreren Mesh-Einheiten, die einfach an verschiedenen Stellen in der Wohnung platziert werden. Durch die intelligente Verbindung und Kommunikation zwischen den Geräten wird ein nahtloses WLAN-Netzwerk aufgebaut. Selbst für technisch weniger versierte Benutzer ist die Einrichtung ein Kinderspiel. Was mich besonders beeindruckt hat, ist die beeindruckende WLAN-Abdeckung des Tenda Nova MW6. Trotz meiner Wohnung mit dicken Wänden von 55qm Fläche konnte ich eine durchgehende Verbindung mit 3/3 Balken in der gesamten Wohnung feststellen. Sowohl in den entferntesten Ecken als auch im oberen Stockwerk bleibt die Signalstärke stabil und zuverlässig. Die Geschwindigkeit des WLAN-Netzwerks ist ebenfalls bemerkenswert. Ich konnte problemlos HD-Videos streamen, Online-Spiele spielen und mehrere Geräte gleichzeitig verbinden, ohne Verzögerungen oder Verbindungsabbrüche zu erleben. Das Tenda Nova MW6 bietet eine zuverlässige und stabile Verbindung, die meinen Anforderungen in vollem Umfang gerecht wird. Darüber hinaus verfügt das Tenda Nova MW6 über eine benutzerfreundliche App, mit der ich mein Netzwerk problemlos verwalten und Einstellungen anpassen kann. Ich kann beispielsweise Gastzugänge einrichten, Gerätepriorisierung festlegen und die Bandbreite verwalten. Diese zusätzlichen Funktionen tragen dazu bei, dass das Tenda Nova MW6 zu einer umfassenden und dennoch benutzerfreundlichen Lösung wird. Alles in allem kann ich das Tenda Nova MW6 Mesh-System uneingeschränkt empfehlen. Es bietet eine einfache Einrichtung, eine bemerkenswerte WLAN-Abdeckung und eine zuverlässige Leistung in einer Wohnung mit dicken Wänden. Mit einer Bewertung von 5 von 5 Sternen ist das Tenda Nova MW6 definitiv eine erstklassige Wahl, um WLAN-Probleme zu lösen und ein zuverlässiges Netzwerk zu gewährleisten.