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Eighteen months later, still working great.
This is based on a setup I did last night, so durability is a preliminary call. I got this for my girlfriend. Her Netgear 1600 is approaching old age and had a bit a bit of occasional cutout on the high band. Not enough to make it unusable, but at the sale price of the Tenda, I was able to buy one and save the Netgear for a spare in case something really failed.
I paid good money for a Netgear Nighthawk 1900 for my home, and after installing an AC1200 in a rental property I came to the conclusion that all that extra power in the router is wasted if you're only getting 60 megs down through the cable system.
The Tenda cost a small fraction of my locally purchased AC1200 unit and works as well as anything I've used. I was able to hang nine devices--Roku boxes, Amazon units, smart speakers, phones, tablets and computers on it in a matter of minutes. It had enough power so that I was getting good signal on my phone way out on the street, at least a block from the unit. If anything more expensive dies in the router department (and the spare Netgear unit dies), this will be my new go to router. Now I'm asking myself what was I thinking when I laid out that extra $140 to get that high end Nighthawk.
December 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase