So I’ve had the tenda nova mw6 setup in two differnet houses in different formats. I purchased them 8 months ago.
Problem 1/ One of the nodes used to give a connection but had no internet. No idea why, but it was pretty constant.
Problem 2/ In the mornings I may have 350mbps but later this may drop to 2mbps. Pretty crazy differences. Powercycle puts it back to full speed.
I bought this system a couple years ago. As far as i can test and tell….its not sending any information out that it shouldnt be. It requests permission to access the camera so that it can scan the QR codes located on the bottom of the units as a way of adding them to the network. A feature you probably missed because it was all set up or auto adds the different nodes. Other than that it asks for location permission and permission to access the phones radio systems. Maybe they updated their app? Upgrading firmware was not difficult and was instantaneous for me. I cant vouch for internet speeds over 120mb but lets be honest…. Does it really matter? At 120 I still get lag and messed up frame rates on some games, faster isnt the issue, other people being slow is the issue. Torrent and purchased video downloads work almost as fast as direct wiring to the modem. I can stream my 4k security cameras that are on my home network on my phone flawlessly. I dislike reviews that downrate a product because they dont fully understand the features and then call a product subpar because it doesnt work for the 1% of superusers that need a 500mb upload speed. This is a fine system and is priced according to the features it does (or in this case doesnt) have.
What did I get with the cheapest mesh? Well, I got a near useless product when I purchased the MW6 3 pack. Coverage and Download was acceptable, however upload was appalling at best. My testing had the main node plugged directly into the lan port of my router. Via a laptop in the same port, I have 96 to 98% of my ISP stated download *and* upload speed. Plug in the MW6 and connect to that network with the same laptop (1m away from the main node) and the download was 95 to 97% – however the upload was under 10%. Went through all the trouble shooting, used their cable and also tried only having the main node plugged in, result was the same repeatedly. If I used their network cable and put it back into my laptop, I was back to full upload speed when tested with speed test and an ftp upload to a site I manage with a 100Mbps 1:1 connection. But using to the same site using the same laptop, the MW6 the speed was consistently poor. With a 100mb upload file going to the FTP site, I maintained 40-45Mbps with my laptop and ethernet cable. Using the wifi and MW6 the speed was between 3 and 15 Mbps. During the tests, all AV and FW were disabled and no other apps running. In a final attempt to get a better result, I tried a windows tablet and an android device. The results were: coverage and download, acceptable. Upload, completely unacceptable. Tenda support could not resolve the issue and the product was returned to the reseller. How would I sum it up? Garbage.
Was going to get some extra Nova MW6’s. Ive 6 atm & wish to have the internet now cover my other 3 houses with one net account supplying to all 4 houses (12 tenants + myself). Distances to the other 3 houses are about 50 meters each side (nth, sth & east). My master house (FTTC) which has the internet supplied is “smack in the center”, surrounded by the other 3 houses.
I tested the MW6’s before to the houses on each side (which is about 50 mtrs away) & surprisingly was able to pickup the signal quite clearly & It was only a little intermittent at times.
After reading some of the testimonies on here Im not sure which way to go now.
I was originally going to get a more powerful higher output Tenda “modem router”(AC18 AC1900 Smart Dual-Band Gigabit WiFi Router) & Tenda signal repeaters(not sure which type) to effectively transmit to the adjacent houses.
Have used the Tenda Nova system for 6 months. Download speed is great but can be choppy and upload speed is terrible and mostly unusable. Privacy terms if logging into the app are an issue and not worth the login. Will likely replace with another system unfortunately.
I am currently using a Nova MW6 as router on a 1Gbps fiber connection.
I can get speeds of 900Mbps via cable.
Connection is as follows: Fiber-box -> Tenda MW6 -> Gigabit Switcher -> Computer.
There’s around 20 meters of cable between the Tenda Router and the Switcher, other cables are 1m long.
What sucks is that the router can’t list computers connected to the cable. So I can’t add port-forward configurations.
i have it only 1 week but WOW i have 190 SM and 150 SM and all walls are stone and i use only 2 of 3 pcc and it is working very very good i have more than 60 wifi pcc in the light (“shelly “1+ 2.5) love it !
I think you were a bit low with your evaluation: if it is true that this device does not have all the features of the other devices of more famous brands, it costs a third and works very well. It’s been three weeks since I installed it in my home and honestly parental control, antivirus and filtering don’t interest me (plus in the “home” mode with which other brands’ devices do it, which is more a false security than anything else) .
MW6 has better performance when I bought it six month ago. Yesterday my internet speed dramatically reduced from 32Mb/s to 2Mb/s even stuck upload. I thought that it is again ISP has some problems. I connected to original router to restart main hub. Checked its speed it was 32Mb/s. After turning of MW6 about 10 minutes and powered on again speed came back but 27Mb/s. Upload speed was very tiny. Original was 20Mb/s but tenda gives 7Mb/s. Same as defect TP-link modem series.actually tenda needs cooler it is not tolerable for long time using
I have been using the Tenda MW6 system for over a year now. Besides a couple of hiccups and reboots it has been a pretty reliable system for me. Especially for the price! I have over 8000 sqft of yard and it gives me full coverage. I would recommend for the average user who doesn’t need really advanced settings.
This worked well for me for a while, but recently I started getting ridiculously slow wifi speeds in the neighborhood of 1 to 2mpbs from a 200mbps feed. Thinking perhaps it was because I had the units spread out too far, I bought and added two more. After adding them, I was getting 200 mbps, but a few days later, it’s back to slow speeds with lots of drops. Very unreliable. I will have to replace it. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why/when it will work well, and of course you can’t stream well (roku/smarttv/cell) on it when it’s doing that.
I have the exact same problem. After initial setup I had my full 125mbps but recently it drops to exactly 1-2 mbps with no pattern. All devices are affected but it seems rather random which and it also seems to not matter to which node they are connected. And not all clients are affected at the same time. I cannot see a pattern. Sometimes disconnecting and connecting the client helps, sometimes not. Sometimes a restart of the cable modem helps, sometimes not. I tried bridge mode, static IP and everything the app offers but it doesn’t seem to help reliably. What I also observer is that my MacBook Pro pretty often connects to the 2.4GHZ network although only 30cm away from the node.
Well, I’m very happy with mine and have been using for quite some time. For the Android app, it is wrong that it asks for permissions that it does not need but you can not accept the grants and the app still works. I bought a 3 pack but ended up using 2. I imported mine from China into the UK and they were very cheap – by the time I sold the one I didn’t need the setup was extremely cheap. I am using mine in ‘bridge mode’ for wireless duty only with a pfsense based router as the main router. Bridge mode is needed to access shared resources like printers and servers on the existing wired network (I can’t remember but I don’t think all mesh systems support bridge mode). I don’t think any of the mesh systems provide router capabilities that would satisfy my router needs (or indeed any of the consumer orientated dedicated routers, hence pfsense) and the MW6 router functions are indeed very weak. Also, my satellite is connected via wired Ethernet – there was already a cable in place. In my scenario I needed wireless roaming but didn’t need wireless backhaul. The MW6 supports this, not all mesh systems do. To be fair I have tried using the wireless backhaul and there is little impact on performance unless at very close range to the satellite. I usually have many maybe 15 connected devices, and never get disconnects. My devices are a mixture of 2.5 and 5Ghz ranging from phones, laptops, google minis, Roku, smart bulbs, etc. I can reliably stream large 4K rips using Plex to my Roku over WIFI. I get 80+ Mbps over all areas of my 4 bedroom house. This is adequate for my needs. Next to the main or satellite I get about 250Mbps but good coverage is more important to me rather than the speed I get sat on top the device.
The only device that has had trouble on the network is my son’s iPad Air2. Not being an Apple fan, this is the only Apple device that has been on the network.
It would be crazy of me to suggest the MW6 is a top performer in the mesh network market. It is however very cheap and for some people will perform quite well indeed. Considering it’s price I would give it 4 to 5 stars, not 2.
I did my speed tests with the Android WIFI Speed Test app that uses a server on a wired windows PC.
My main gripe is that every 6 months or so it needs to be reconfigured again as something goes haywire int he config. This is very annoying.
Having just checked, a 3 pack is available for under £100 and a 2 pack for £65 if you use a well known Chinese website. The MW3 (no gigabit port so severely limits max speed when close to the device) is an incredible £53. For users who just want basic wireless coverage around their whole home this is a steal. I expect that the MW3 would have suited my modest needs, good coverage being more important than max speed next to the box). A lot of people only need at most to be able to watch a 4K stream, a bit of browsing, maybe some HI-FI quality music service etc. In my experience the MW6 is certainly capable of this and I am sure the MW3 is as well. Why pay through the nose for capabilities not needed?
I take my positive comments back. For two days in a row it has screwed up its config. That is not acceptable. What a pile of s#@t. It has been working fine for months up to now. I feel like tossing the junk out the window. I expect my technology to work…..Please consider reducing your review score to 1 star.
I love my Nova. I bought the MW6 from Amazon to replace my old router, and so far, i’ve been getting better and consistent wi-fi coverage in the three corners of my house where I needed them. Compared to the other mesh products out there, this system was priced great. So I can’t really complain. It does it job great and it works.
Appreciate the precision of your review, citing equipment used and settings. Will keep an eye on privacy settings on all connected devices. Set up through iPhone, and don’t recall giving all-access to the app, but will certainly investigate, thanks.
As you point out, am a value point buyer, and the 5 units of MW6 recently connected show promise. Came across your review looking for configuration suggestions, as my install is an in-line large garage-home-motor coach, stretching over 200 feet, and am looking for config ideas for overlap vs linear.
The Nova app’s request for permission to access all media and files on my device is completely ludicrous. Obscene, almost, considering this is a Chinese company that wants unfettered access to my device. I’ve seen multiple reports of people’s locations appearing as China, which is even more concerning.
That said, the system itself works well. Devices roam seamlessly between nodes, connectivity is strong and I’m downloading at my full rated line speed consistently. I do not, however, have a gig Internet connection so I can’t speak to any limitations related to gig Internet.
I have read about smart TV’s not being able to maintain connections when fast roaming is enabled on the Nova system. I did experience this my smart TV as well. Once I disabled fast roaming, the TV is able to connect and stay connected. Another rather annoying issue is the firmware update on the secondary and tertiary nodes. I had to disconnect the primary node and power it off, then plug subsequent nodes in, reset them, and update the firmware via the app as if I were setting the nodes up as primaries.
I more or less solved any issues with traffic being sent to China by configuring the Tenda system in bridge mode with a geo block rule on my firewall that drops connections to China.(Enabled after setup and download of firmware update since both require connectivity with Tenda’s Chinese site.) It’s ridiculous that I had to do so, and most folks won’t have an enterprise class firewall with which to do so, but it works nonetheless.
I should clarify that the app only asks for these permissions if you attempt to use the “cloud based” features of the app. I assume these are features like monitoring and management of the system from outside the home.
If you just use the app for setup and very basic monitoring of the system, you don’t need to allow the app permission to anything on your device.Still ludicrous, and still something that Tenda needs to address.
The fast roaming issue is not a Tenda problem, it is TVs with outdated WIFI capabilities – no support for IEEE 802.11r. Old versions of IOS have the same issue. I suspect that all mesh systems will cause similar issues on such TVs.
Traffic being sent to/through China is rather odd though….most of the time most of my devices are going through a VPN…however, as sometimes the VPN client that is used is on my router then that pesky Chinese chatter will still get through 🙁
At a guess the traffic is probably diagnostics and usage stats and nothing too menacing but it is still rather naughty.
I have not noticed any location based issues myself. I could geoblock China but how would I access all those lovely cheap Chinese web shops (well, the answer is of course geoblock on router and then use VPN on client).
Anyway, geoblocking China is not easy as relay sites could be used in other countries. I was going to play with pfblockerng in pfsense but the netgate site is not working properly at the moment 🙁
I have been using the Nova for 2months now . I was using a aimesh before . With the aimesh everyone in the house was getting mysterious disconnect the Nova seems to have cured
it while My internet speed is 50mbs I can get it all across my home using the Nova. But I do observe that it does not transfer to the strongest node automatically. But I still find the responsiveness acceptable.. For me the Nova is a value product
I just bought one last week and have had some odd experiences with location functions on two Android tablets while using the system.
A Google weather notification on my Nexus 7 tablet gave me conditions in Fuzhoa(China), and a Weather Underground notification on my wife’s ancient Acer tablet provide conditions in Fishi, which is not far from Fuzhao.
Some spelunking around with iplocation.net and traceroute tools revealed nothing of note, but obviously some traffic is being rerouter through China.
35 Responses to “Tenda nova MW6 review: What you get from the cheapest mesh WiFi system?”
So I’ve had the tenda nova mw6 setup in two differnet houses in different formats. I purchased them 8 months ago.
Problem 1/ One of the nodes used to give a connection but had no internet. No idea why, but it was pretty constant.
Problem 2/ In the mornings I may have 350mbps but later this may drop to 2mbps. Pretty crazy differences. Powercycle puts it back to full speed.
Never get these results with Tenda Nova MW6.
Question – where you get the option to choose 5GHz or 2.4GHz wifi ?
I bought this system a couple years ago. As far as i can test and tell….its not sending any information out that it shouldnt be. It requests permission to access the camera so that it can scan the QR codes located on the bottom of the units as a way of adding them to the network. A feature you probably missed because it was all set up or auto adds the different nodes. Other than that it asks for location permission and permission to access the phones radio systems. Maybe they updated their app? Upgrading firmware was not difficult and was instantaneous for me. I cant vouch for internet speeds over 120mb but lets be honest…. Does it really matter? At 120 I still get lag and messed up frame rates on some games, faster isnt the issue, other people being slow is the issue. Torrent and purchased video downloads work almost as fast as direct wiring to the modem. I can stream my 4k security cameras that are on my home network on my phone flawlessly. I dislike reviews that downrate a product because they dont fully understand the features and then call a product subpar because it doesnt work for the 1% of superusers that need a 500mb upload speed. This is a fine system and is priced according to the features it does (or in this case doesnt) have.
Mediocre performance, frustrating firmware upgrade process but most importantly intermittent wifi disconnection issues 🙁
What did I get with the cheapest mesh? Well, I got a near useless product when I purchased the MW6 3 pack. Coverage and Download was acceptable, however upload was appalling at best. My testing had the main node plugged directly into the lan port of my router. Via a laptop in the same port, I have 96 to 98% of my ISP stated download *and* upload speed. Plug in the MW6 and connect to that network with the same laptop (1m away from the main node) and the download was 95 to 97% – however the upload was under 10%. Went through all the trouble shooting, used their cable and also tried only having the main node plugged in, result was the same repeatedly. If I used their network cable and put it back into my laptop, I was back to full upload speed when tested with speed test and an ftp upload to a site I manage with a 100Mbps 1:1 connection. But using to the same site using the same laptop, the MW6 the speed was consistently poor. With a 100mb upload file going to the FTP site, I maintained 40-45Mbps with my laptop and ethernet cable. Using the wifi and MW6 the speed was between 3 and 15 Mbps. During the tests, all AV and FW were disabled and no other apps running. In a final attempt to get a better result, I tried a windows tablet and an android device. The results were: coverage and download, acceptable. Upload, completely unacceptable. Tenda support could not resolve the issue and the product was returned to the reseller. How would I sum it up? Garbage.
Worst customer service I ever experienced!!!!!
Was going to get some extra Nova MW6’s. Ive 6 atm & wish to have the internet now cover my other 3 houses with one net account supplying to all 4 houses (12 tenants + myself). Distances to the other 3 houses are about 50 meters each side (nth, sth & east). My master house (FTTC) which has the internet supplied is “smack in the center”, surrounded by the other 3 houses.
I tested the MW6’s before to the houses on each side (which is about 50 mtrs away) & surprisingly was able to pickup the signal quite clearly & It was only a little intermittent at times.
After reading some of the testimonies on here Im not sure which way to go now.
I was originally going to get a more powerful higher output Tenda “modem router”(AC18 AC1900 Smart Dual-Band Gigabit WiFi Router) & Tenda signal repeaters(not sure which type) to effectively transmit to the adjacent houses.
Have used the Tenda Nova system for 6 months. Download speed is great but can be choppy and upload speed is terrible and mostly unusable. Privacy terms if logging into the app are an issue and not worth the login. Will likely replace with another system unfortunately.
just did a firmware upgrade and it went flawlessly. Looks like Tenda fixed any issues with it. I LOVE these systems and have installed 4 for
I am currently using a Nova MW6 as router on a 1Gbps fiber connection.
I can get speeds of 900Mbps via cable.
Connection is as follows: Fiber-box -> Tenda MW6 -> Gigabit Switcher -> Computer.
There’s around 20 meters of cable between the Tenda Router and the Switcher, other cables are 1m long.
What sucks is that the router can’t list computers connected to the cable. So I can’t add port-forward configurations.
Hi there,
I just don’t understand how is mesh network any good when in the Balcony you get 100 out of 1000? Isn’t that like 1/10th of the speed?
Shouldn’t you get like close to 100% of your network speed?
What is it that I don’t understand here?
On WiFi, with the existing Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) standard you can’t get 1000 Mbps on WiFi. It is impossible.
i have it only 1 week but WOW i have 190 SM and 150 SM and all walls are stone and i use only 2 of 3 pcc and it is working very very good i have more than 60 wifi pcc in the light (“shelly “1+ 2.5) love it !
how did you able to connect to the 2.4 GHz band specifically for your testing?
With some driver settings for the WiFi network card, that made it connect only to the 2.4 GHz band.
I think you were a bit low with your evaluation: if it is true that this device does not have all the features of the other devices of more famous brands, it costs a third and works very well. It’s been three weeks since I installed it in my home and honestly parental control, antivirus and filtering don’t interest me (plus in the “home” mode with which other brands’ devices do it, which is more a false security than anything else) .
MW6 has better performance when I bought it six month ago. Yesterday my internet speed dramatically reduced from 32Mb/s to 2Mb/s even stuck upload. I thought that it is again ISP has some problems. I connected to original router to restart main hub. Checked its speed it was 32Mb/s. After turning of MW6 about 10 minutes and powered on again speed came back but 27Mb/s. Upload speed was very tiny. Original was 20Mb/s but tenda gives 7Mb/s. Same as defect TP-link modem series.actually tenda needs cooler it is not tolerable for long time using
I have been using the Tenda MW6 system for over a year now. Besides a couple of hiccups and reboots it has been a pretty reliable system for me. Especially for the price! I have over 8000 sqft of yard and it gives me full coverage. I would recommend for the average user who doesn’t need really advanced settings.
This worked well for me for a while, but recently I started getting ridiculously slow wifi speeds in the neighborhood of 1 to 2mpbs from a 200mbps feed. Thinking perhaps it was because I had the units spread out too far, I bought and added two more. After adding them, I was getting 200 mbps, but a few days later, it’s back to slow speeds with lots of drops. Very unreliable. I will have to replace it. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to why/when it will work well, and of course you can’t stream well (roku/smarttv/cell) on it when it’s doing that.
I have the exact same problem. After initial setup I had my full 125mbps but recently it drops to exactly 1-2 mbps with no pattern. All devices are affected but it seems rather random which and it also seems to not matter to which node they are connected. And not all clients are affected at the same time. I cannot see a pattern. Sometimes disconnecting and connecting the client helps, sometimes not. Sometimes a restart of the cable modem helps, sometimes not. I tried bridge mode, static IP and everything the app offers but it doesn’t seem to help reliably. What I also observer is that my MacBook Pro pretty often connects to the 2.4GHZ network although only 30cm away from the node.
Well, I’m very happy with mine and have been using for quite some time. For the Android app, it is wrong that it asks for permissions that it does not need but you can not accept the grants and the app still works. I bought a 3 pack but ended up using 2. I imported mine from China into the UK and they were very cheap – by the time I sold the one I didn’t need the setup was extremely cheap. I am using mine in ‘bridge mode’ for wireless duty only with a pfsense based router as the main router. Bridge mode is needed to access shared resources like printers and servers on the existing wired network (I can’t remember but I don’t think all mesh systems support bridge mode). I don’t think any of the mesh systems provide router capabilities that would satisfy my router needs (or indeed any of the consumer orientated dedicated routers, hence pfsense) and the MW6 router functions are indeed very weak. Also, my satellite is connected via wired Ethernet – there was already a cable in place. In my scenario I needed wireless roaming but didn’t need wireless backhaul. The MW6 supports this, not all mesh systems do. To be fair I have tried using the wireless backhaul and there is little impact on performance unless at very close range to the satellite. I usually have many maybe 15 connected devices, and never get disconnects. My devices are a mixture of 2.5 and 5Ghz ranging from phones, laptops, google minis, Roku, smart bulbs, etc. I can reliably stream large 4K rips using Plex to my Roku over WIFI. I get 80+ Mbps over all areas of my 4 bedroom house. This is adequate for my needs. Next to the main or satellite I get about 250Mbps but good coverage is more important to me rather than the speed I get sat on top the device.
The only device that has had trouble on the network is my son’s iPad Air2. Not being an Apple fan, this is the only Apple device that has been on the network.
It would be crazy of me to suggest the MW6 is a top performer in the mesh network market. It is however very cheap and for some people will perform quite well indeed. Considering it’s price I would give it 4 to 5 stars, not 2.
I did my speed tests with the Android WIFI Speed Test app that uses a server on a wired windows PC.
My main gripe is that every 6 months or so it needs to be reconfigured again as something goes haywire int he config. This is very annoying.
Having just checked, a 3 pack is available for under £100 and a 2 pack for £65 if you use a well known Chinese website. The MW3 (no gigabit port so severely limits max speed when close to the device) is an incredible £53. For users who just want basic wireless coverage around their whole home this is a steal. I expect that the MW3 would have suited my modest needs, good coverage being more important than max speed next to the box). A lot of people only need at most to be able to watch a 4K stream, a bit of browsing, maybe some HI-FI quality music service etc. In my experience the MW6 is certainly capable of this and I am sure the MW3 is as well. Why pay through the nose for capabilities not needed?
I take my positive comments back. For two days in a row it has screwed up its config. That is not acceptable. What a pile of s#@t. It has been working fine for months up to now. I feel like tossing the junk out the window. I expect my technology to work…..Please consider reducing your review score to 1 star.
I love my Nova. I bought the MW6 from Amazon to replace my old router, and so far, i’ve been getting better and consistent wi-fi coverage in the three corners of my house where I needed them. Compared to the other mesh products out there, this system was priced great. So I can’t really complain. It does it job great and it works.
It is good that you are a satisfied customer. 😉
Appreciate the precision of your review, citing equipment used and settings. Will keep an eye on privacy settings on all connected devices. Set up through iPhone, and don’t recall giving all-access to the app, but will certainly investigate, thanks.
As you point out, am a value point buyer, and the 5 units of MW6 recently connected show promise. Came across your review looking for configuration suggestions, as my install is an in-line large garage-home-motor coach, stretching over 200 feet, and am looking for config ideas for overlap vs linear.
my isp says i should get 50 megs. when using the nova i get about 44 wireless and about 48 to 51 wired with Tenda. so i can’t really complain
The Nova app’s request for permission to access all media and files on my device is completely ludicrous. Obscene, almost, considering this is a Chinese company that wants unfettered access to my device. I’ve seen multiple reports of people’s locations appearing as China, which is even more concerning.
That said, the system itself works well. Devices roam seamlessly between nodes, connectivity is strong and I’m downloading at my full rated line speed consistently. I do not, however, have a gig Internet connection so I can’t speak to any limitations related to gig Internet.
I have read about smart TV’s not being able to maintain connections when fast roaming is enabled on the Nova system. I did experience this my smart TV as well. Once I disabled fast roaming, the TV is able to connect and stay connected. Another rather annoying issue is the firmware update on the secondary and tertiary nodes. I had to disconnect the primary node and power it off, then plug subsequent nodes in, reset them, and update the firmware via the app as if I were setting the nodes up as primaries.
I more or less solved any issues with traffic being sent to China by configuring the Tenda system in bridge mode with a geo block rule on my firewall that drops connections to China.(Enabled after setup and download of firmware update since both require connectivity with Tenda’s Chinese site.) It’s ridiculous that I had to do so, and most folks won’t have an enterprise class firewall with which to do so, but it works nonetheless.
I should clarify that the app only asks for these permissions if you attempt to use the “cloud based” features of the app. I assume these are features like monitoring and management of the system from outside the home.
If you just use the app for setup and very basic monitoring of the system, you don’t need to allow the app permission to anything on your device.Still ludicrous, and still something that Tenda needs to address.
The fast roaming issue is not a Tenda problem, it is TVs with outdated WIFI capabilities – no support for IEEE 802.11r. Old versions of IOS have the same issue. I suspect that all mesh systems will cause similar issues on such TVs.
Traffic being sent to/through China is rather odd though….most of the time most of my devices are going through a VPN…however, as sometimes the VPN client that is used is on my router then that pesky Chinese chatter will still get through 🙁
At a guess the traffic is probably diagnostics and usage stats and nothing too menacing but it is still rather naughty.
I have not noticed any location based issues myself. I could geoblock China but how would I access all those lovely cheap Chinese web shops (well, the answer is of course geoblock on router and then use VPN on client).
Anyway, geoblocking China is not easy as relay sites could be used in other countries. I was going to play with pfblockerng in pfsense but the netgate site is not working properly at the moment 🙁
I have been using the Nova for 2months now . I was using a aimesh before . With the aimesh everyone in the house was getting mysterious disconnect the Nova seems to have cured
it while My internet speed is 50mbs I can get it all across my home using the Nova. But I do observe that it does not transfer to the strongest node automatically. But I still find the responsiveness acceptable.. For me the Nova is a value product
I just bought one last week and have had some odd experiences with location functions on two Android tablets while using the system.
A Google weather notification on my Nexus 7 tablet gave me conditions in Fuzhoa(China), and a Weather Underground notification on my wife’s ancient Acer tablet provide conditions in Fishi, which is not far from Fuzhao.
Some spelunking around with iplocation.net and traceroute tools revealed nothing of note, but obviously some traffic is being rerouter through China.
Fail!
The Tenda mobile app does things it shouldn’t do and gets data it should not have access to.
You guys said comparing it to tp link deco, but the graph and data never mention tp link deco.
It should have said ASUS Lyra Mini. Thanks for highlighting this issue. We fixed it.