Tenda Nova MW3-3 Mesh WiFi System - Up to 3500 sq.ft. Whole Home Coverage, WiFi Router and Extender Replacement, AC1200 Mesh Router for Wireless Internet, Works with Alexa, Parental Controls, 3-pack

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With home working from becoming the norm, there's more need than ever for a reliable laptop, as well as a separate keyboard, wireless mouse and printer to complete the 'home office' setup. Add in your gaming setup (or your children's) and an excellent internet connection is essential.

ISP: Short for internet service provider. This is the person you pay (usually monthly) to deliver internet to your home. In the UK, brands like BT, Virgin, and Sky Broadband. Powered by the cutting-edge Wave2.0 MU-MIMO technology, nova can communicate with multiple wireless devices at the same time, and significantly outperforms traditional routers in communication efficiency. Modem: The vast majority of providers combine their modems and routers so you won’t have two separate devices. In short, a modem is the device which actually connects your network to the internet. Modem is a portmanteau of the words ‘modulator’ and ‘demodulator’. It turns one signal into another signal. For example, it turns digital data of a computer into the analogue signal of a telephone line. This is why you used to have to connect your internet to the phone line. For several reasons, I wasn’t expecting the Nova MW3 to deliver exceptional performance. For one, its 5GHz radios claim a fairly modest maximum data rate of 867Mbits/sec, which is half the speed of the units in the BT Whole Home Wi-Fi system. If you mean boosting the range of your WiFi signal then you can do so with a mesh network, WiFi repeater, or powerline adapter, as described above.Network: A group of computing devices which are linked together to share data. This can be via wired media such as cables or via wireless media such as WiFi. Having a good, reliable WiFi signal at home has never been more important. Increasingly, we depend on the internet in every room in the house, to connect our smart devices, be they phones, tables or toasters. Still, they work just fine and are just as simple to set up as the rest of the mesh networks on here (though the app is weird and doesn't seem to have been written by someone with a great grasp of English.)

TP Link's Deco range acts as a perfect mid-range point between the unnecessarily pricey Google WiFi and the cheap-but-missing-functionality of the the Nova range However, the design isn't great. The nodes are much bigger than Google's cylinders or TP Link Deco's disks. The light is also a lot brighter than the others. You can change this in the settings, but it's annoying that it comes as default. It illuminated my bedroom to a point where I feared it would harm my chances of getting to sleep. (Admittedly, I'm someone who requires total darkness to nod off.)

The Tenda Nova MW3 is the cheapest mesh wireless kit we've come across, and it isn't half bad, either

BT's mesh network system would have been at the top of this list had the company made a few tiny tweaks This doesn’t have to be a deal-breaker, though. The system was still nippy enough to give me the full speed of a 50Mbits/sec (around 6MB/sec) fibre connection all through my home. Tenda Nova MW3 review: Verdict Mesh networks should, in theory, mean your WiFi never cuts out again. These work by having various ‘nodes’ scattered around your home (normally they come in boxes of three but you can get as many as you need.) The first one connects to your current router to create a network, then the other nodes act as additional routers to ensure you’ve got the same fast signal being broadcast from each. It should also stabilise your router. A skim of the Tenda’s technical specifications revealed the explanation. Alongside lightweight Wi-Fi hardware, the MW3 nodes also use 100Mbits/sec Ethernet ports, rather than the Gigabit type we’re accustomed to. That puts a hard speed limit of around 10MB/sec on all wired resources – including your NAS drive and your internet connection.

The RE450 isn’t the cheapest Wi-Fi 5 extender, but it’s faster and more stylish than the budget competition. Don’t be put off by its age: it still deserves a place on anyone’s shortlist.The primary unit has connected to the internet. For secondary units, this means that it has successfully connected to the primary unit. Blinking fast