They are like day and night compared to the Tenda. Well worth the upgrade. They seem to give about the same coverage which may mean that I need one more.
However, unlike the Tenda, the speed doesn't drop around the house. It gives maximum speed everywhere where there is signal.
I'm currently just getting low signal in the downstairs toilet and it drops off in the back garden. Otherwise full and fast coverage.
VoWiFi now works again. Overall very happy."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51820540","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"KodaBear"},"datePublished":"2023-12-23T23:05:28.000Z","text":"Before you buy anything. You aren’t on O2 for your mobile are you?
If you have O2 you not only get a free speed boost on your home broadband and double data on your phone, but also get free WiFi signal booster pods for your home if it won’t stretch or speeds aren’t fast enough.
You didn’t specifically mention this. But was the VM Hub in modem mode? If it wasn’t this could explain some issues you had.
Tenda isn’t a fantastic brand imo anyways though. They’re known for being problematic at times so regardless of if you were in modem mode or not I’d probably be looking at other brands still.
I can vouch for ZyXEL as a brand. I’m a fan of their networking kit. Never tried their mesh systems myself but they’ve been my go-to brand for routers for a long time now."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51820562","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"jackr1"},"datePublished":"2023-12-23T23:11:58.000Z","text":"I’ve got two Tenda mx21pro. Rate them highly. Before these I had an Asus ac68u then I tried the deco xe75 pro mesh system. Speeds were great but range was very poor which is why they went back to Amazon.
Have you tried contacting tenda customer care? Not had to contact them myself but read that they can be very helpful?"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51820666","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"ianmurf"},"datePublished":"2023-12-23T23:34:49.000Z","text":"I have put the virgin hub into modem mode and I use the Tenda Nova MW6 to provide DHCP. I also have the Nova system maintenance schedule to reboot the system at 0300 every day. This seems to keep it quite stable for me."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51821152","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Uridium"},"datePublished":"2023-12-24T02:36:52.000Z","text":"Google WiFi. Yes it's older tech but faster than your WAN speed. It's reliable and very easy to setup and manage using the Google Home app.
I have Virgin 1gb (primarily for wired speed) but still get around 500Mbps on WiFi devices around the house.
Can't even remember the last time I even looked at my Google WiFi config or manually rebooted, months if not a year plus ago"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51822958","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"freakstyler"},"datePublished":"2023-12-24T11:21:44.000Z","text":"I had a similar issue with my BT Mesh setup, certain items wouldn't work very well in a particular part of the house, things like smart bulbs would be intermittent, refusing to connect to the nearest BT Disc, same goes for laptops etc. The cause of all my problems, the Super Hub 3 was turning its Wi-Fi back on, apparently this is by design, you can turn it off but it will turn itself back on within a hour. I had the Hub which was providing router functions right next to the BT Disc that nothing would reliably connect to, I assume they were interfering with each other. Moving them apart improved things but putting the Hub 3 into modem mode and using a 3rd party router solved all my problems.
I went from a two BT Disc (original AC2600 version) setup to using two cheap Tenda Routers, RX9's I think with one being set to access point mode and they totally blow away the previous BT setup when it comes to coverage and speed.
I would recommend the BT kit though, the original discs, not the small ones. I used them for four years without issue, until the above which was not their fault but if you have the option or ability to run a cable I would go down the route of access points or cheap routers configured as access points and you'll have more options and better reliability. I looked at the Multy setup but the reviews on Amazon US put me off, it's apparently slow, glitchy and causes dropouts when clients are handed from one node to another. That being said you aparently have the option of installing 3rd party firmware which improves them."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51824973","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"r4w80"},"datePublished":"2023-12-24T16:43:26.000Z","text":"Late to the party but using zyxel multy with openwrt and very happy with them."}],"commentCount":18,"interactionStatistic":2,"articleSection":"Ask"}