Features:

  • Can you say Total Home Coverage? Tenda creates smarter homes using an advanced dual band AC1200 MESH Wi-Fi system that eliminates Dead-Zones and delivers your high-speed internet coverage throughout your home (6000 Sq. ft)
  • Works with Alexa, Google assistant, streaming devices and advanced appliances, so you can link up to 90 wireless devices to your high performance wireless network and maintain optimum conditions
  • Manage your home wifi network from anywhere, with the fun-to-use Tenda Wi-fi app, with helpful tools like our parent-friendly Wi-Fi timeout feature and enjoy safe and secure intenet connections with WPA/WPA2 PSK Mixed security and industry level password encryption
  • All Tenda Nova products are fully integrated and need only to be paired to your existing nova units, to effectively expand Wi-Fi coverage. Each node blankets in advance of 2000 sq. ft and is equipped with an LED range-indicator light, to function as a positioning guide, for quick and easy network expansion.
  • Get Mesh Wi-fi compatible with all major internet providers (AT&T, Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon, etc.).Data Rate:5GHz: Up to 867Mbps,2.4GHz: Up to 300Mbps
  • Industry-leading 3-Year Warranty, with FREE 24/7 Amazon-dedicated tech-support team (Support.Amazon@tenda.com.cn)
Works great, relatively easy setup, excellent value.

Initial set up should have been a breeze - download app, reboot modem (cable or dsl), power up and connect the root Nova (choose any from the set), look for the blue LED, power up and place the other Nova units about 45 feet away, then finally fire up the app and complete the set up including creating a Tenda account. Unfortunately, didn't go this smooth for me as I couldn't immediately connect from the phone app after selecting the default SSID and attempting to login with the default password. However, I was able to access the WiFi from my laptop with the default access info, then I was able to connect from the phone app. After that everything was easy. Speed increased tremendously everywhere in the house. WiFi is 5G and didn't see any option for 2.4G. Had to reboot some devices to reconnect. Great value. Highly recommended.

easy is an understatement

Wow... easy is an understatement. I just set it up at my sisters house because her new Router put in by the cable company sucked. It covered mainly the living room and I saw speeds of 25Mbps from it. FOR THIS, after downloading the app, I unplugged the router from Spectrum (on this install, modem and router were separate)... then plugged in a cube. It took a min and the blue light came on. Went to the app, typed in the cube-specific password, then the name of her old network, used her old password (for easy comm. with all her devices)... and we were up. WITH ONE CUBE I was able to see good speeds of 70Mbps throughout the house! With just one cube! Setting up the other cubes is just plugging them in . Seriously. Plug it in... DONE. Now the entire 2800 sq ft single family home and back yard are COVERED and I'm seeing speeds of 107Mbps. So easy and so good, I just ordered one for my house now. NOTE FOR ADVANCED USERS: If you like to tweak settings, this isn't for you. You can't even change the default login on this... but no worries there. This has no "admin" and "password" stuff. Your cube login is printed on the main cube and is a secure password. You don't have to use it however after you get the app up and running on your phone where you DO have to enter the info on the cube 1st time. So this is limited to naming your network and adding your own password.... and done.

The Way to Go

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.

Simple to install and works just great!

We had several extenders and an access point to cover our 2 story 2400 sq ft home. It's 5 BR, and a large backyard and patio, so a lot of space to cover. We were so frustrated with every make and model and configuration we tried. Then I saw this and decided what the heck, try it. It's been a total joy. No more loss of signal, even outdoors it works perfect. We placed the main unit upstairs next to the modem. The other two downstairs. Signal is strong everywhere. We kept waiting for it to fail, it just hums along, 3 little white boxes that take up little space. We get close to 50Mbs speed which s just fine. Updating with the phone app is easy. We can't say enough good about our experience so far. Thank you!!!!! .

An amazing product that provides Mesh Wifi at a Realistic Price!

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.

Powerful and stable WIFI - RECOMMEND

The setup was quite easy. I now have the BEST wifi coverage! I could not be happier with the signal strength and speed throughout my 1600 ft2 bungalow with 1600 ft2 basement and small L shaped back yard. Maybe even next door? You need a smartphone to use the app to set up the routers which as I see it is the only minor downfall of these routers. Once everything is connected you can look at the app and see which node each device is connected to. Each router has a LAN port which is great for plugging in wired only devices like my satellite TV receiver or the My AcuRite weather station link. The system automatically assigns each device to either 2.4 or 5 GHz connection which all magically uses the same SSID. As you move around the system seems to keep everything connected perfectly. With my cable modem in my basement I previously had trouble getting a signal upstairs in places. I now have full signal strength everywhere and fast internet speeds! I totally recommend this router which was highly recommended to me by my brother in law!

Super easy setup

Wasn't expecting this to be so easy to setup. Turn off your modem. Download the Tenda WiFi app. Plug in the power to one of the Nova Cubes (doesn't matter which one). Plug in the Ethernet cable (included) into the Cube (the one with the blue globe icon) and one of the modem's Ethernet ports. Power up the modem. Give the modem time to go all green. Open the Tenda WiFi app and follow the rest of the instructions. The Cube's starting name and password are on the label on the bottom including the serial number which you use later to find and rename the Cubes by location in the app. The other two Cubes just had to be plugged in and they worked with in about a minute. I placed one at each end of my house and one in the middle. Coverage is great. Speed seems fine, no buffering on my streaming services. Just have to see how they do over time now.

Great product and service. Definitely buy this for the price

3 days into use and I like it. Helps with the WiFi around my house. I'm getting about 100mbs speed all over the house. At times having a single router and one access point I would have hiccups and speeds as slow at 5kb. It was definitely time to get a mesh system. I reviewed almost every option. Almost purchased Google, orbi, and a few others, but for the price, I thought I would give it a shot. Purchased for $150, and 3 days later they are now $99 on Amazon. Hopefully I'll get a credit instead of wasting time to return and repurchase. I had an issue setting this up initially and found that if it doesn't connect, perform the following from the app on your phone. From the main WiFi menu on the app, delete the devices that are not connecting. Hold the reset on the bottom of the devices until the light turns white, then release. After the additional devices power up, you should have no issues connecting them. The app will even prompt that it found a new device. The support at tenda walked me through this. They were super helpful. They even answered the phone almost immediately and there were no prompts to press when calling. Awesome! I work in IT, but don't see the need to buy $400 plus routers if I can get even 80% of the performance from this device. And litterally, I'm getting much better performance and range. House size is 2500 sq ft, finished basement and second floor. Coverage is consistent throughout. I used a WiFi analyzer to track signal and it all seems consistent. If anything changes, I'll update this post.

Use bridge mode to turn off double NAT

I'm really happy with this product. I added it to my 2,100 sq ft 2 story house and now I have reliable wifi inside and outside wherever I go. I am using an Xfinity cable modem/router that like all routers hands out internal IP addresses. When I first added the Tenda, I found that it is also configured to act as a DHCP server resulting in double-NAT. I found that when I set the Tenda to Bridge mode, it made the wifi connections much quicker since it eliminates the double -NAT. I'd also recommend that if you are connecting the Tenda to an existing wifi router, that you disable the original router's wifi. Otherwise you will cause interference between the old router's wireless signal and the Tenda's signal.

Just so easy!

Moved to a new house, so decided to try a MESH system to avoid having to wire the house with CAT 5. The two satellite units both show "excellent" connection in a fairly large 2-story house. All the media units (DISH HOPPER, Fire TV, etc.) work perfectly; I use one switch in an office to provide multiple RJ-45 outlets. For VoIP I get an MOS of 4.4 when connected to one of the satellites via the switch. Just so easy! Initially, I used the product in bridging mode with another router providing DHCP, because reviews said that you could not change the DHCP IP range (and I was lazy and did not want to change static IPs on some equipment). This configuration gave me quite a high packet loss, enough to make VPN very slow -- I don't know whether the problem was with the Nova or with the other router. I then found out that the latest firmware DOES permit the DHCP range to be set by the user ... fixed this, dumped the other router, switched the Nova to DHCP mode, and zero problems since then. Excellent product; great performance; very good value ... and SO EASY!

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