Very good product and very good signal, no more lagging

I have 900mbps fibre and wasn’t getting anywhere close to this with another mesh system. Upgraded to the Tenda Nova wifi 6, and getting very fast speeds now, and covers the whole house easily.

Needed to install a mesh system in my mother’s flat because the signal from her router was relatively poor so decided on the Tenda Nova MW6

This is not a high end mesh system, it’s range is nowhere near 330 sqm but it works – in fact, I’d be amazed if it works more than 90 sqm, but it was perfect for the flat and our requirement.

It’s very important when installing the devices (with the Tenda App) that you are careful not to site the second mesh device too far from the one that’s connected to the router, otherwise you get patchy connectivity (I tried it in 3 different locations before I forund the optimal place), but one done, it gives excellent coverage.

I live in a remote area and about 2 miles from the nearest green box so 15Mbps broadband speed is considered ‘pretty good’! The dual Openreach box in my house was installed where the copper wire enters the premises, – i.e. at one end of the house. I tried extension cables to move the router more into a central location and suffered significant speed drop. Using any WiFi device was difficult unless I sat next to the router. The further I was from the router, – the lower the WiFi speed. So, for example, to use WiFi calling to make a mobile phone call (we get almost no mobile signal here) was tedious.
I bought the Tenda Nova MW3 Whole Home Mesh WiFi System Pack of 3, – and BINGO!
I read the instructions, installed all three units in about 10 minutes, put one in the sitting room and wired it to the TV; put the second one in my office. Now, – whatever speed the router gets, my Tenda nodes deliver it (plus approx 2 or 3 Mbps) to their location and beyond. Very happy result!

I started having Wi-Fi issues at home after moving to a new house and started looking for solutions. I looked at normal extenders first but realised they cast a new network that needs manual switching every time also they could only repeat a signal they receive i.e if the signal it receives is weak then it is pretty useless also ordered and tried a repeater which dropped my wifi speed by half. Then I came across this with all the good reviews. Ordered the two pack it worked brilliantly but wanted strong wifi everywhere in the house so thought id send it back and order the 3 pack. Ended up keeping both. Now I have full wifi everywhere in the house and the garden with seamless roaming no need to manually switch wifi also no speed loss. If you have a normal fibre/broadband that offers around 20-30mbps this is great. If your speed is over 100mbps you might want to consider the other more expensive models. For me this is great. Realised the optimal requirement for my house is 4 nodes. And now I get the full Internet speed everywhere in my house as i did when I was directly connected to my router. In fact i had an issue with netflix buffering at 1080p quite regularly. I no longer have that issue leading me to believe that this device manages wifi traffic better than the ISPs router. Also I highly recommend the 3 pack even if you think your house is smallish this is because if you want to add a node later it can be expensive to buy just 1. So might as well get the 3 pack

This product is brilliant. I wish I had bought it years ago. This simply solves all Wifi issues, removing all dead spots in our house.

We have a Virgin Superhub in the living room, which left massive dead spots in bedrooms, back of the house and certainly was not capable of reaching the garden. Also our Superhub had continuous issues, needed resets every week.

With this new system all that is resolved. I switched the Superhub to “modem” mode, which switches off the Wifi, and connected it to one of the Nova boxes, and put two other Nova boxes in other rooms in the house. Now we have high speed wifi everywhere, including in the garden. And I have yet to have any issues or need to reset it.

Before this I tried a range extender but that did not solve anything. It did not add much range, and because it emitted a different wifi to the superhub, our phones would “stick” to a weak superhub signal rather than switching to a stronger signal from the extender when walking through the house. Since the Nova boxes hand over to each other seamlessly, that issue does not occur.

Setup was easy, with only a brief issue with our Sonos system which was a bit finicky until I simply plugged the Sonos bridge (later upgraded to a Boost) directly into the Nova main system, and then I had to set up the Sonos system from scratch (adding one speaker at a time). A bit time consuming but it now works like a charm.

Highly recommended!!

I have TalkTalk fibre broadband for my sins. In fairness this does reliably deliver 35-38Mbps when directly connected to the router via Ethernet BUT the WiFi from the TalkTalk supplied router (a Huawei HG633) is rubbish. We get frequent dropouts and the signal strength in the front bedrooms is very poor (despite being only 30 feet from the router). Sick of stuttering video and moans from the offspring, I decided to try the Tenda Nova MW3 Whole Home Mesh WiFi System and bought the 3 pack. Well, what can I say, for the money it’s extremely good. The 3 small white cubes are a little “plasticky” but they are unobtrusive and don’t look out of place on a bookshelf or side table. Setting them up is extremely easy, it took just 5 minutes to have them up and running. There is a single “quick setup” guide, just one page, but that’s all that is needed. I placed access points in our dining room, kitchen and living room. There are none upstairs but since each of the bedrooms is directly above a room with an access point signal strength is excellent. Our whole house is now “bathed” in 2.4Ghz and 5.0Ghz WiFi and signal strength in every room is excellent (about -38dBm). Everyone in the household has noticed a big improvement.
Where the system probably looses out over more expensive systems is in the lack of management options. Once it’s setup, there’s not really a lot you can do. You can identify and name all the devices on the WiFi and block them if required. You can set “Parental controls” which allow you to restrict access at certain times. There is also a Quality of Service function (QoS) that is meant to prioritise gaming and web browsing data packets over streaming (although I haven’t actually tried this). The Ethernet interface is Fastethernet (100Mbps) not Gigabit but for most people this will make no difference (only the select few with ultrafast fibre).
The one real criticism I have is over the length of the cables on the power supplies, these are ridiculously short (about 1m), surely it could not have added much to the price to make them 2m!
I had to purchase some 2.1mm x 5.5mm Extension Cables before I could install the system. If you’re interested, I bought these ones:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01FJWVP5W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
for 5.99 and they work just fine. There are plenty of others of course.
Overall, very impressed and well worth the money.

After much research into the various options for mesh WiFi below 200, I eventually went for the Tenda Nova MW3.

Installation was dead simple and only took a few minutes. It’s much faster than our previous solution which was a standard router (BT, Sky, etc.) and a BT Wifi extender.

I was originally concerned that administration can only be done via the official iOS/Android app, rather than a web interface. This seems quite short sighted because the end user has to hope that the app remains compatible with future releases of iOS and Android. But I found that most of the competition (below 200) are also app-based. Fair enough. Worst case, I’ll just have to keep an old device around for admin.

Features-wise, I don’t know how it compares to the competitors but you can configure it from anywhere. I can be at work and still do everything, which is quite nice. I can also see which devices are hogging bandwidth and even block them. Both handy features in a family household!

The only real negative for me is that it’s rated at half the speed of the BT Whole Home option. i.e. it’s AC1200 vs. AC2533. But it’s also half the price and easily fast enough for most fibre connections.

All in all, I’m glad I went for this and not something more expensive. When I eventually need something faster, a few years from now, it will probably be much cheaper to do so.

After replacing the flooring in my house, the foil-like underlay reduced the signal to the first floor and totally blocked it in the second floor.
After installing one Wi-Fi range extender, I was able use the Internet in the second floor, but really slow and the annoying fact to manually disconnect from one Wi-Fi to connect to the other, as the names are different, despite the same password and one being just “bridging” it.
Now the Wi-Fi signal is at 100% at any place in the house, as the new kit redirects you to the nearer box. As the Mesh truly bridges the original network, there’s no need to disconnect/connect.
There’s a lot of options and customization available, clearly in my case, this system is an overkill.
Now the speed: I didn’t try to transfer files between computers, as I just have one desktop connected, 2 smart TVs and the PS4, plus the mobile phones.
I’m achieving about 90-95% of the 100mbps from my Virgin Broadband in the first floor. Connecting the desktop to the box, using a RJ45 is giving me better results. Wi-Fi gives about 80-85% of the 100mbps.
In the second floor is about 70-75% of the 100mbps, Wi-Fi. Didn’t try connecting the desktop there yet using the RJ45.
Few other benefits was being able to connect my PS4 using the Ethernet, much faster than the limited 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.
Also was able to use online features from my Smart TV, as it is one of the “old” ones without Wi-Fi, and the dongle is eye-watering expensive.
Considering the price, and all the functions available, this item is a real gem. It will give you, not only a very good Wi-Fi coverage, but delivery very good speed, plus the flexibility to have 2 devices connected in the box via Ethernet cables, as if they inches from the original Broadband source.
Loving it.