| Brand | Tenda |
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| Product Dimensions | 10 x 10 x 10 cm; 1.2 Kilograms |
| Item model number | MW6 3-Pack |
| Manufacturer | Aerials, Satellites and Cables Ltd |
| Series | MW6 |
| Color | White |
| Connectivity Type | 801_11_AC |
| Wireless Type | 801.11ac |
| Voltage | 156 Volts |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Item Weight | 1.2 kg |
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Tenda MW6 Gigabit Dual Band Mesh WiFi System (3-Pack) for Whole Home (WiFi Router and Repeater Replacement), 500m² Wi-Fi Coverage
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| Brand | Tenda |
| Series | MW6 |
| Frequency band class | Dual-Band |
| Wireless Type | 801.11ac |
| Compatible devices | Laptop |
| Frequency | 5 GHz |
| Recommended uses for product | Home |
| Included components | Product; Power Adapters; Install Guide; Ethernet Cable |
| Connectivity technology | Wi-Fi, Ethernet |
| Colour | White |
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- Whole Home WI-FI Mesh: Support 802.11S for a true WiFi mesh network, designed for your smart homes with WiFi dead zones at home
- WIFI router and repeater location: Ideal to replace your existing Wi-Fi solutions, such as WiFi extender, traditional WiFi router, wifi repeater and PLC, provides Wi-Fi coverage up to 500 m². Compatible with all Internet service providers (livebox, freebox, etc.)
- Gigabit and secure: MW6 deploys a full gigabit network and more powerful wireless streaming performance. Also compatible with Nova MW3 and MW5, so you can expand the range with more choices. Encrypt WiFi password with WPA2-PSK, protect your smart home and connections from hacking and attacks
- High capacity and complete flexibility: Create a single, seamless Wi-Fi network for all your devices. Keep up to 90 devices connected simultaneously. Each node covers up to 180 m² of living space and eliminates Wi-Fi shadows. Easily extend your home's Wi-Fi coverage
- Wireless Roaming for Everyone: Each unit works together to form a single real Wi-Fi Mesh network, creating a truly effective and stable online experience
- MW6 is compatible with Alexa and can automatically turn on the guest network via Alexa
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| ASIN | B076VPYT36 |
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| Customer Reviews |
4.3 out of 5 stars |
| Best Sellers Rank | 79,124 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories) 234 in Whole Home & Mesh Wi-Fi Systems |
| Date First Available | 25 Oct. 2017 |
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Amazing coverage and speed.Had trouble getting a decent signal around the house with virgin hub 3 even with range extenders.This system is easy to set. Initially conflicted with my power line set up but as soon as I turned off the WiFi on the virgin hub I have a fully working home network.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 10 October 2022
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needed to wifi my garden office 60m from house. Out-house half way between. used Out-house as jumping point and works just fine. Took a little time to settle so thought at first it wasn't working but left for an hour or so and everything kicked in and is working fine. Had for a week and only once had to do a quick re-boot as it lost signal but no issues since. Will keep and eye on it. It likes being high up for some reason. building made from wood so don't know if brick walls would hinder the outcome. Hope this helps.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 September 2022
This system works. The boxes are incredibly easy to install. We have just moved house. In our previous property, an old farmhouse, I had nine tenda boxes Which gave a very good internet signal throughout the property and all the barns and sheds. In our downsized new home I thought three would be enough. I am now up to 7 The house is on the side of a very steep hill. I have a garden room. Quite a distant from the house but tenda copes well. I have no experience of any other system but this has been reliable and the app ensures that you can keep an eye on all the boxes to make sure everything is functioning. They are expensive but they work and that probably is what matters.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 August 2018
First off I have to declare that for the price this is a great piece of kit. It does what it says on the tin very well and with probably the easiest setup of any network device I've ever come across. However for some, there are a few areas in which this lets itself down - mostly these are probably things that could be fixed in a future firmware release - so Fingers crossed!
So the good bits !:
1) the wifi range and penetration of these devices is spectacular! For background I live in a detached victorian Slate built house over 3 stories. Before I fetted the tenda I was having to use 3 APs and a further 3 range extenders and still had too many dead-spots around the house - and frankly t was becoming a bit of a nightmare reliability wise. As soon as I plugged in the 1st Tenda, I had about 80% coverage! I could probably get away with just two to cover the whole house to be honest - but Heck I bought 3 so I'll use them all! I even have good coverage out into my garden and Garage.
2) Setup - absolutely a piece of cake! I defy anybody not to be able to set this up. Only downside is that you MUST use the Tenda App on an iOS or Android device to do this. There is no Web Console as yet.
3)PPPoE works out of the box - so if you have a separate modem and router you can just plug it into the modem and potentially ditch your existing router altogether - (though if you read on you might not want to ...)For me that's great because it means I don't need to use the awful BT Home Hub - just plug into an openreach VDSL modem (you can pick them up for a tenner off ebay) and let te tenda do the rest.
4) Backhaul over Wifi or Cabled/powerline. Because all units are identical and have 2 x 1GB Etehernet ports you can backhaul between the units over a wired connection. This might be desirable as the units are dual-band only so no dedicated back-haul wifi channel. I've not trried this - but others say it works :-)
5) It just works! I now have 50+Mb/s internet bandwidth anywhere in the house. LAN bandwidth I haven't measured and if you look online it isn't going to break any records here - but is certainly enough for me to have multiple HD streams running from my NAS to various Displays around the house - so practically it seems fine. If you have a lot of 4K content to chuck around your network though you might be better looking for tri-band units instead.
6)Configurable Device groups and scheduled access/parental controls seem good and easy to configure - though not personally tried this.
7) Remote management - if you sign up to an online account you can administer your settings remotely. This is alost too easy so is also a cause for concern
Bad Bits: Well you weren't expecting perfection at this price were you ? Despite all of the above the units do have some hefty shortcomings. For some , some of these will be important, for others less so.
1) Firewall (or Lack of) - Now I'm not stating that these units Don't have any firewalling - but if they do it's not in evidence. There are no firewall settings available and I can't find any documentation about any firewalling. This in itself should be enough to make most users want to stick this behind a more competent router - but that is going to run a horse and cart through the simplicity of setup and use of your home wifi - which is a shame.
UPDATE: having now run a number of port scans and pen tests I'm pretty satisfied that in the configuration I've used that the Tenda is pretty secure. The only open ports found are those specifically port forwarded. The only vulnerability found is a ping response , which isn't great as does reveal that you do exist as a potential target.
https://www.grc.com
2) DHCP Server - it has one - but it is VERY basic - allowing you to choose your subnet and router address only. YOU CANNOT SPECIFY A RESTRICTED RANGE OF ADDRESSES. Unfortunately it doesn't even seem to allocate addresses sequentially from bottom-up or top-down, just seemingly randomly scattering them throughout the subnet.This is a serious omission and I would hope it would be rectified in a firmware release. Because there is no ability to place reservations either this effectively means you can't have any fixed IP devices on your home network.
3) DNS Settings - Good and bad here - I was pleased to find that it does act as a local DNS Proxy rather than passing on your ISPs (or other providers) DNS servers directly to clients - however there is no possibility to configure DDNS which is a massive shame. So the unit has port forwarding capabilities but unless you have a static External IP address its not going to be practically very useful without being able to update your DDNS provider.
So - all in all - these are great units for providing strong Wi-Fi coverage across a wide area and with great wall penetration, However - all the shortcomings listed above will mean that for most people you would still need a competent router to do the basics of DHCP, DNS, Firewalling etc.
I can see that it really hits the mark for quick, easy setup for those with simplistic needs - but just feels like each configuration page on the app needs an 'advanced' tab to configure extra settings for those who want a little more control over their home network.
Finally though - I must stress that at this pricepoint they do represent excellent value for money.
So the good bits !:
1) the wifi range and penetration of these devices is spectacular! For background I live in a detached victorian Slate built house over 3 stories. Before I fetted the tenda I was having to use 3 APs and a further 3 range extenders and still had too many dead-spots around the house - and frankly t was becoming a bit of a nightmare reliability wise. As soon as I plugged in the 1st Tenda, I had about 80% coverage! I could probably get away with just two to cover the whole house to be honest - but Heck I bought 3 so I'll use them all! I even have good coverage out into my garden and Garage.
2) Setup - absolutely a piece of cake! I defy anybody not to be able to set this up. Only downside is that you MUST use the Tenda App on an iOS or Android device to do this. There is no Web Console as yet.
3)PPPoE works out of the box - so if you have a separate modem and router you can just plug it into the modem and potentially ditch your existing router altogether - (though if you read on you might not want to ...)For me that's great because it means I don't need to use the awful BT Home Hub - just plug into an openreach VDSL modem (you can pick them up for a tenner off ebay) and let te tenda do the rest.
4) Backhaul over Wifi or Cabled/powerline. Because all units are identical and have 2 x 1GB Etehernet ports you can backhaul between the units over a wired connection. This might be desirable as the units are dual-band only so no dedicated back-haul wifi channel. I've not trried this - but others say it works :-)
5) It just works! I now have 50+Mb/s internet bandwidth anywhere in the house. LAN bandwidth I haven't measured and if you look online it isn't going to break any records here - but is certainly enough for me to have multiple HD streams running from my NAS to various Displays around the house - so practically it seems fine. If you have a lot of 4K content to chuck around your network though you might be better looking for tri-band units instead.
6)Configurable Device groups and scheduled access/parental controls seem good and easy to configure - though not personally tried this.
7) Remote management - if you sign up to an online account you can administer your settings remotely. This is alost too easy so is also a cause for concern
Bad Bits: Well you weren't expecting perfection at this price were you ? Despite all of the above the units do have some hefty shortcomings. For some , some of these will be important, for others less so.
1) Firewall (or Lack of) - Now I'm not stating that these units Don't have any firewalling - but if they do it's not in evidence. There are no firewall settings available and I can't find any documentation about any firewalling. This in itself should be enough to make most users want to stick this behind a more competent router - but that is going to run a horse and cart through the simplicity of setup and use of your home wifi - which is a shame.
UPDATE: having now run a number of port scans and pen tests I'm pretty satisfied that in the configuration I've used that the Tenda is pretty secure. The only open ports found are those specifically port forwarded. The only vulnerability found is a ping response , which isn't great as does reveal that you do exist as a potential target.
https://www.grc.com
2) DHCP Server - it has one - but it is VERY basic - allowing you to choose your subnet and router address only. YOU CANNOT SPECIFY A RESTRICTED RANGE OF ADDRESSES. Unfortunately it doesn't even seem to allocate addresses sequentially from bottom-up or top-down, just seemingly randomly scattering them throughout the subnet.This is a serious omission and I would hope it would be rectified in a firmware release. Because there is no ability to place reservations either this effectively means you can't have any fixed IP devices on your home network.
3) DNS Settings - Good and bad here - I was pleased to find that it does act as a local DNS Proxy rather than passing on your ISPs (or other providers) DNS servers directly to clients - however there is no possibility to configure DDNS which is a massive shame. So the unit has port forwarding capabilities but unless you have a static External IP address its not going to be practically very useful without being able to update your DDNS provider.
So - all in all - these are great units for providing strong Wi-Fi coverage across a wide area and with great wall penetration, However - all the shortcomings listed above will mean that for most people you would still need a competent router to do the basics of DHCP, DNS, Firewalling etc.
I can see that it really hits the mark for quick, easy setup for those with simplistic needs - but just feels like each configuration page on the app needs an 'advanced' tab to configure extra settings for those who want a little more control over their home network.
Finally though - I must stress that at this pricepoint they do represent excellent value for money.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 August 2018
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.
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.
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