Tenda Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System MW6 (3 Pack) $199.98
TENDA NOVA MW3 3-Pack $99.98 Delivered
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At the bottom of the link it says
Q: Does MW6 works with other Tenda Mesh product? Like MW3, MW5.
A: All Tenda Mesh products can work together.
Yes, and you can mix and match MW6'S with MW3's (and probably MW5s's) as long as they're running the same firmware version. I have read that up to 10 are supported but no more than 6 is recommended due to stability issues.
I get the square foot coverage but what is the range point to point? Can I use this to beam across the road approx 40m?
Possibly. Do you have line of sight or are there obstacles in the way. I have used MW3's successfully in 2 dwellings on the same block of land separated about 25m through several walls.
Near enough to clear line of sight through two windows either side of the road.
You should be right then. 🤞🤞
@aldroid: Fingers crossed. I've just bought the pair of MW6's and a 3 pack of MW3 to setup a mesh network at each site.
Muchos gratzis.
@UncleRico: This sounds like a great money saving idea. Probably work well in blocks of units or with your next door neighbour.
Split your internet, etc. if you were comfortable doing that anyway. Wouldn't be hard to set up permissions for everyone's privacy.
Hmmm 🤔
@db87: In theory, it could be. But in reality, it's just to help out the widow across the road who has modest needs but isn't too tech savvy. She's lovely and has many strengths in other areas where I have none - like pruning our shared hedge! Happy to toss her a couple of cheap access points and a few bytes of data (and a foxtel box) to keep her connected…
I have a pair of MW6's. They aren't up high and are about 25m apart but through walls, furniture etc. They flicker between green light (excellent connection) and yellow light (fair connection). I can still pick them up from down the road, however I don't know how stable the connection is.
Thanks for the report, Marcus. Will see how mine go…
Dammit. i ordered the ones from shopping square and would have preferred amazon.
Ordered the MW3 from the Shopping Square deal as well, but opening the Amazon link shows it to be around $120, so SS was a better deal
it was 99.98 when i looked.
This or deco m5 2 pack for $50 more? Double story house ~250sqm? I have heard tenda ones drop out unless restarted overnight?
Mine deco works flawless from last 5 weeks
Damn missed out on TENDA NOVA MW3 3-Pack AC1200 $99.98
2x2 rubix cube white edition.
Curious if this has better range than the MW3. That is, assuming that the primary unit/s are MW6, is there any benefit in using more MW6 as slaves, or will MW3 suffice (acknowledging loss of gigabit LAN port on slaves) and is their range identical. Nothing in the specs seems to indicate greater point to point range…
2 x MW6 or 3 x MW3?
It will really depend on the type of house. If it's a big house with lots of rooms and internal walls definately go with the 3 x MW3. If you house is not so big or more open plan then 2 x MW6 might suffice. It will also depend on the location of the router and primary node.
I read MW3 is limited to 100Mbps. Hence I went MW6. But my house is small.
Bonus: you can add the MW3 later to your MW6 and they will be unlocked to 1000Mbps. All my research was done on OzB, I have not tried this myself.
Are you sure about that?
I've just ordered a pair of MW6 to share internet across two houses, with some MW3s to extend the network at each house, but I never heard or expected that the MW3's would be "unlocked to 1000Mbps" as a result?
I thought the ethernet connection on the MW3's was locked to 100Mbps irrespective of what it may have been connected to?
Nothing is getting "unlocked" as such, it just means the bandwidth isn't getting throttled back to 100Mbps once it hits the switch port on the primary node. Since most people don't have internet faster than 100Mbps it won't have any effect on internet speed. But if you do a lot of LAN based traffic (ie, have a NAS or transfer files across different local devices) there is certainly a benifit to be had by using the MW6 as the primary node.
@aldroid: Yep that makes more sense.
It does raise the question that is someone were to use an MW3 as a satellite, albeit connected to a primary MW6, at what speed would data transfer between the two ports on the MW3 - if they were connected to a PC and a NAS, for example. 100Mbps or 1000Mbps? I presume it would still be the former…
Yes, that makes sense. The wireless bandwidth is close to 1000Mbps (theoretical) on the MW3 but the bottleneck is the 100Mbps Ethernet port on the router/primary node.
What’s the benefit of MW6 over MW3. I’m not that tech savvy. My router is netgear AC1200 speed.
Do these things replace the router and just plug into the nbn box?
Two main differences appear to be;
MW6 has theoretical ethernet max spaeed of 1000Mbps, MW3 has 100Mbps for their hard-wired connection.
MW6 has beamforming (adding considerable focused network coverage), MW3 does not.
Yes, you can certainly use them to replace the existing router and take your internet feed from the NBN modem, before using any number of additional units to mesh the wi/fi signal, and potentially use them to ethernet PCs, Smart TVs, gaming consoles if you don't want them using wireless. Quite a few other conceivable configuration options depending on how you want to set up your network too, albeit they are intention designed and priced at the click and play consumer rather than the advanced network guru…
MW6 has MU-MIMO which is useful if you have a large number (8+) devices connecting.
Thanks, are these things equivalent to the tplink deco M5?
Says $159
Can we pair mesh 2 set of mw6 pair?