Tenda AC1200 Dual Band Smart WiFi Router AC10U

The truth is that I am very comfortable with the purchase, it is a very good product, very good quality and price, it has very good coverage and as the packaging says, it is also very easy to install.

In my second photo I show the mgbs that I have in my room, with my modem I had no coverage and only had 10 mgbs but now I have 400 to 600 mgbs with the 5Ghz network

I have an acreage and I needed another repeater or extender for the house. The main ap router-linksys 6- gives me poor wifi signals 2 rooms away from the router and I figured I would use this as a repeater. I get awesome speeds on both 2.4 and 5ghz. I have a cheap router in a shed across the yard to give me wifi around the yard and the connection speeds are great to the Ac10u repeater. It was quick and easy to setup both as an ap and easier yet as a repeater. In repeater mode choose the wisp mode for better speeds , if you choose the client-ap mode it cuts the 2.4 signal in half to the next bridge router. The 5ghz signal is the same as the signal off the main router. It maybe older tech as it’s not wifi6 but as a repeater who can beat the price.

High quality, does exactly what it claims to do. I am impressed! Get this, you will not be disappointed. Quick, easy setup…it is super-fast, simple, and delivers on a whole-home experience. For us, our coverage spreads across a 2-story home with reliable, steady coverage of 2000+ SF (square feet) across all ends of the home, upstairs and downstairs. Consistent connectivity with no deadzones! We haven’t tried through the furthest point of the backyard yet…or around the peripheral areas of our home. It easily covers up to 2500 SF. This WiFi router is dual band, has a great interface (1 Gigabit ports and a USB for thumb-drive file sharing), the wireless data rates are high (300 mbps + 867 mbps) and the frequency per second is high. All of those mixed together combine for a recipe of speed and reliability! I read a review that downgraded the rating because she said she ordered Model AC10U, which is an upgrade, and got “AC1200 MU-MIMO Dual Band Gigabit WiFi Router”. They are synonymous, one and the same…READ the front of the box and the product write-up on Amazon!!! I included 2 pix, front and back for reference. The reviewer also said her ISP tech told her the “AC1200” was an inferior product to the “AC10U”. Not true! They are one and the same. I do admit it can be confusing…don’t know why the 2 types of model numbers are on the product. As the buyer, we do have a responsibility to READ…don’t expect everything to be spoon-fed to you…especially on tech which is constantly changing to meet changing consumer needs for better, faster, reliable performance. Tenda (I wasn’t familiar with the brand) did a solid job laying out the critical performance-related details and product features…simple to read and follow. My husband left this purchase up to me. I took the time to educate myself and learn because our internet needs are rigorous and high (especially since we WFH-Work-from-Home 100% of the time given the pandemic protocols, etc) and we have high standards for performance results given the work that we do and the tv entertainment and streaming that we view. I read the details of Tenda’s product offering and guarantees (along with numerous other brands and models with various price-points), and I read hundreds of reviews. Then I leaned in on the best choice for our home. Ultimately though…as with all internet-related products and services…you have to give it a test-drive with YOUR unique setup and circumstances for the usage and performance YOU need at YOUR home…including YOUR modem…it is absolutely critical to pair the WiFi router with a compatible modem that has the right high-speed, bandwidth, download speeds, downstream and upstream channels. etc…as you get better flexibility when the modem is separate from your WiFi router. Overall performance considerations: YOUR ISP home location, coverage and service speed…inside YOUR home with YOUR devices, with the type of whole-home coverage you need, and the number of devices you need connected simultaneously at any given time. For us, the Tenda WiFi router connection is strong, consistent, super-fast and reliable for the 14 devices (TVs, computers, phones, printer, iPad, Kindle, bluetooths) that we have connected 24/7 right now. At times it will be more devices. It can have up to 30 devices connected at one time for super-fast speed. Along with a 4+ STAR rating, a great interface, and a 3 year warranty, the price investment makes it an incredible “and-then-some” buy! If Tenda had a modem, I would have given it a try. I didn’t see one, so I have it connected to a new Netgear CM600 high-speed cable modem (1 year warranty) and they very work well together. I happened to order at the right supply-and-demand time…saved 16%, or $8, on the new Tenda WiFi router…days later it went up. Saved 46%, or $60 on the new Netgear modem (5 days later it went up 20%, although it is still priced at a 28% savings). With the upgrade to this WiFi/Modem combo, it pays for itself on a break-even basis in less than 5 to 8 months and I save $168 to $300 each year by NOT renting the equipment (which is not as high-performing) from my ISP company. Great investment all around! I took the time to write a more detailed review…in hopes that it will help someone else trying to evaluate all of the critical details like I was “forced ” to do. 😁

Easy setup. Good wifi range. Just make sure you unplug your modem for few minutes or you’ll be stuck on home page forever. Works flawlessly . Happy with the purchase.

Very very disappointed in this purchase. There is a Canadian 1-800 but when I tried to call (attempted many times all with the specified open hours) the call got answered and then there was an automated “goodbye” and the phone would disconnect.

I wrote to the email address indicated in the box… but after 1.5 weeks never received a response.

Where to start? The wifi is okay… not great. The parental controls are not what have been indicated in the question area.

You can schedule each device… BUT… there are not multiple schedules for each device. In other words if you want to give your teenager a schedule it’s the same sitting the week and weekends.

The app says it will notify you when something joins the system… I never got a single notification.

I was looking for a parental control that would allow me the option to allow internet access but also limit the total time online (I.e. time limit versus scheduling). That does not seem possible. Although the app would tell me length of time a device was connected… if the device changed from 2.4 band to 5 band… the time starts over.

Of course, I may be missing something but no one bothered to contact me after a significant length of time so back it goes.