Excellent router. Low cost. Arrived in 2 day in spite of the much longer shipping time shown on the site.
The password was a little confusing. The default on the label is actually for both wifi and setup url. Other routers usually have open security for the default wifi and "admin" or "password" for setup url.
I used this to replace a 2-router setup of router and ap. The default setup ip address for the Tenda AC15 is 192.168.0.1 where as my old system was 192.168.1.1. I was afraid that I have to do a lot of messing around to get my existing devices to work with this router. It turned out it was no work at all. I just change the AC15 ip to my old router's, it figured out the subnet automatically. Then I changed the SSID, wifi password, DHCP range, setup url password to my old system and all the devices in the house worked. The signal range is excellent and the strength is stronger at the most remote corner of my house even without an ap. I am getting about 90 down and 11 up mbps from wifi 25 feet away(straight line) with many walls in between. I have 2 laptops, 2 cell phones (using wifi calling), 2 tablets, 1 voip phone, 1 smart tv, 1 roku, 2 android TV boxes, 1 wireless printer, 1 nas, and all are working without any issues, granted I am not using all of them at the same time.
There is an on/off switch for the router which I think is important. I zapped my old router when power cycle the unit by pulling the power cable. Beside the password, the other thing I don't like about the AC15 is there are only 3 lan ports when 4 ports are more universal for other routers. Customers may get a surprise finding out there is an extra ethnet cable with no place to go.
Additional comments after running about 2 weeks:
The router continue to perform well. However, I did found some short comings. There is option to install VPN on the router. But the protocols are limited to PPTP and L2TP. According to my VPN provider, these are not very secure protocols. I was going to install it anyway. Then I found a very stupid restriction On the user name and password for the VPN account (which is none of Tenda's business), it is restricted to alphanumeric and underscore. It is very common for any type of accounts to use email address as user name. The "@" in the email violated the restriction that means I can't set up the VPN with the latest Tenda firmware. I did further searching, you can actually flash "Tomato" firmware to this router. But with Tomato, the 5G speed is very slow. Since I did not want to give up the 5G speed, I passed on the Tomato firmware.
I know Tenda is monitoring the reviews, I hope you guys will update the firmware to support open vpn and also remove the meaningless restrictions on VPN account user name and password.
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
|---|---|
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
