Tenda Nova MW6-2 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System

Keeop reviews Tenda Nova MW6-2 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System; Get Rid of Wi-Fi Dead Zones; 4000sq Wi-Fi Coverage, Two Gigabit Network Ports, App Control, Easy Set Up, Pre Configured (Pack of 2)

These little cubes are pretty good. Not perfect though. The range of them is amazing. I could probably get away with just one covering the whole house (5 bedroom!) but as I bought a pack of 2, seemed crazy not to use both. So, I can get pretty much full speed anywhere in the house and also in the garden. The latency is not as good as my original wireless AP or the BT solution which I also had.

My only real gripe is the fact that if you use these in ‘bridge’ mode, which you will if attaching to an existing router, you lose all the good monitoring features and guest network etc. Shame. That was the reason I got the BT discs as these features all work – the BT solution is designed to only work as a bridge/AP. Just a shame that the range of the BT ones was so incredibly poor. If you could combine the two you’d have the perfect system. But, I can kind of fudge the kids’ access etc. using my firewall and I can probably get a guest network up and running on my old wireless kit so that’s good enough reason for me to stick with these.

But, as a quick example as I had these and the BT ones side by side. If I sat the other side of a wall – about 3 metres from the mesh node, I was still getting 90-100Mb using these cubes (my Internet connection is 100Mb) yet about 40Mb with the BT discs. Out in the garden, say about 12m from nearest cube, I could still get around 60Mb on these but only 10Mb on the BT one. I have had the secondary node just go offline a couple of times recently, for no reason, which is a bit of a concern so need to keep an eye on that.

Otherwise, pretty good. The icing on the cake – and what would earn these 5 stars – is if all the features could work in bridge/ap mode, like the BT solution. Oh, and a slightly better app!