Tenda AC23 Smart Wi-Fi Router

It's not dd-wrt compatible and has minimal controls in the software, but the signal strength and bandwidth on 5ghz is pretty good--it's better than my R7800. It's annoying if you're wanting to assign an IP to it, internally rather than by DHCP, and then run it in AP mode. I forgot the exact string of events, but I had to factory reset it twice because it's "too dumb" to allow for saving multiple settings at once and then applying them all at once while already being connected to the network and subnet it's planning to be running on. Set it up separately before connecting it. Just a minor gripe but it really bothered me. Overall, it seems like a great value for 5ghz at least. I'm not using it for 2.4 at all. I didn't run iperf through it yet, but it pulls down 480mbps from the internet onto my Pixel 5 without a problem. I've turned off 5ghz on my R7800 running dd-wrt because it's outperforming it. I certainly wouldn't use it as a router because it has crappy software and the specs are pretty weak. It does allow for scheduled rebooting, however, so I turned that on just to play it safe. But running it as a very dumb AP through pfsense, I'm pretty happy for $78.

My unit arrived on 8-31-2020. I didn't have the most common issue complained about here: The menus are in US English. The box details are in English. What literature there is in English. The unit arrives sporting firmware version V16.03.09.04_multi but suggests I update it to V16.03.09.05(5550). I'll get around to it but not tonight. The setup is dead simple. The menus are not robust like an Asus RT-AC but they're more than sufficient. I like the unit. The 2.4GHZ band is strong as an OX. Playing around with my devices to see how much the Beamforming improves the most distant ones. I have three Rokus in the same general direction away from the unit. The farthest one from the router location has never been reliable on 5GHZ. When I first connected it, Roku said the connection was "fair." After streaming all three of those Rokus for an hour, the most distant one still reports "fair" so I may need to play with the antenna positioning. There has been no buffering even on the distant one so the signal is much improved. I should mention that I'm replacing a damn fancy Asus RT-AC88U. The menus are a cultural shock - The Asus had dozens of not hundreds of little tweaks you can make. I found that overwhelming and I'm a network engineer. I can only image the average user trying to make sense out of the advance settings on that router. Final thought... I put some tall stick-on rubber feet on the bottom of this router. In my experience, heat is the number one cause of failure in routers, lightning being #1, so I maximized the airflow under the unit by doing so. I recommend everyone try to maximize the airflow under these devices. We keep getting faster processors and chipsets in these things and more speed makes.... More heat.

I bought this as an experiment to replace my Linksys tri-band router (which cost closer to $500 than to this router’s $89) because for all the Linksys’s high price tag and fancy looks, it seemed to be standing in the way of my hue lights reliably coming on when I re-entered the geofenced area around my apartment. A similarly fancy and expensive Netgear router seemed to be able to handle the task without fail though other aspects of that router left me unsatisfied, so after reading the reviews I decided to give this router a try. To my delight, it has done its thing flawlessly so far. It’s provided a fast and reliable Internet connection, seemingly with less overhead than either the Linksys or the Netgear, and my apartment has not yet failed to welcome me home with all lights ablaze upon my returns from afar. I only gave it four stars because it arrived with no AC adapter; I’m using the disconnected Linksys router’s AC adapter with it temporarily until the third-party adapter arrives that I’ve ordered through Amazon. Though I should probably give it that fifth star back seeing as when I contacted Amazon to report the missing AC adapter, I was given a full refund and not asked to return the router. So in the end I got this router for the price of a universal AC adapter. Very nice. If anything untoward develops I will report it here, but for now all is very well and I am much pleased with this router’s performance.

I saw this Wifi 6 router in the Warehouse section, and decided to give it a try despite pretty dubious reviews (if everything is 5 stars, I get suspicious ;)) Setup was straightforward, and I was even able to easily transfer all my prior customized settings and static IP addresses across really quickly. The signal strength is much better compared to my previous (Archer AC1900 C9) router, although the 5G signal still has some issues making it all the way across the house. I can live with a weak 5G signal with this router though, where the previous one was simply unusable. The 2.4GHz signal is amazingly strong everywhere and delivers great throughput. I am tempted to simply switch off the 5GHz band. Oddly enough the router is set to reboot every night unless there is traffic, we'll see if that's a sign of crappy engineering or defense in depth. So far, I am impressed, I'll follow up after some more in depth usage.

Este router me llego antes de tiempo. Para mi me fue difícil eligir entre tantos routers, cual seria mejor opción para mi casa. El punto es que decidí comprarme el Tenda AC23. Llevo días usándolo y es de los mejores. Te ofrece una buena calidad de internet. Como tal mi proveedor tiene una calidad muy buena y con este router me va de maravilla. Si piensa alguien en cómpralo sin duda es una excelente opción de calidad/precio. Pensaba irme por otro router que costaba lo triple o incluso más que esté pero ofrecía las mismas características como esté me ofrece. A mi parecer es muy bueno además con su aplicación de Tenda puedes controlar muy bien el router, no se porque muchos dicen que la aplicación no sirve, pero yo ya la probé y es cuestión de que le vallas moviendo cositas y moverte en la interfaz de la aplicación y ya cuando le vallas entendiendo resulta ser muy fácil. El único inconveniente que tengo de este router que su rango de red es la misma que un router de los mas baratos y tal ves eso sea importante para muchos pero para mi un poco ya que mi antiguo router es de hace 4 o 5 años y dan el mismo rango pero si estas cerca de él incluso si estas un poco lejos del router aun sigue dándote muy buen internet, porque hay otros routers si te alejas un poco se empiezan a desconectar pero en en el AC23 nunca hace este tipo de cortos. En conclusión es bueno ya que ofrece tecnología muy buena pero con un rango de red un poco de lo normal que ofrecen otros de más bajo costo.

Muy buen producto

Llevo más de un año y desde que lo configuré no he tenido problemas, cumple para que llegue sin problemas la señal de wifi en toda la casa y de forma estable. Lo recomiendo ampliamente

Es un buen producto fácil de configurar casi todo automático para quien no tiene mucha práctica y con buenas características para para modificar a quien tiene un poco de más exigencia. El rango de alcance es algo que e visto cuestionan en publicaciones aquí pero que gracias a las antenas y el acomodarlas se soluciona yo lo conseguí en oferta por casi 900 un precio más que justo lo e visto en otras ofertas por 1200 y aún así lo vale da estabilidad a las conecciones y un mayor rango que el módem que trae las compañías por defecto para una casa chica y de tamaño medio es ideal cubrirá tus necesidades para una casa enorme pues si tienen una casa así pueden pagar más por un mejor producto que cubra mucha más área unos estilo malla

El router está hermoso, el material es bueno y en realidad fue fácil de instalar y configurar con la app de Tenda. De igual forma, da una velocidad wifi rapidísima, por primera vez tengo la velocidad por la que pago a través del wifi. ¿Lo único malo? El alcance del WiFi es moderado. Tuve que comprar un repetidor 5g para seguir teniendo más alcance con rapidez. Me resultó curioso que el módem que me da la compañía tiene más alcance que el Tenda en cuanto al WiFi. Consideren estos puntos si lo van a comprar. Si su casa es mediana o moderadamente grande, esta es la opción.