Tenda Portable Wireless AP/Router W300M Review

1. Introduction2. Tenda W300M3. Tenda W300M User Interface4. Testing and Closing Thoughts5. View All Pages

The Tenda W300M has retail packaging designed to attract your eye … The Tenda colour scheme will have a bright presence on any shelf.

The back of the package tells you nearly everything you need to know, and details how all of the 5 modes work; AP Mode, Client + AP Mode, WDS + AP Mode, WISP Mode, Wireless Router Mode.

The two sides of the box tell us more about the product, and what is included inside the box.

Opening up the box, we find two plastic trays holding the W300M and accessories so that the router can be seen from the front of the box.

Tenda have included 3 cables, two of which are practically the same – a USB to mini USB power cable, and a double USB to mini USB power cable. The third cable being a standard ethernet cable.

In case you want to power this device from the mains, Tenda have also included a Power Adapter. This means you can leave the device on even when the laptop is off.

While they have included a little booklet for initial set-up, the user guide is on the CD. It is very well written however, which is a bonus, especially for inexperienced network users.

The device has a very distinctive white colouring, with the thin grey band across the top. At the bottom of the device we can see indicator LED's, showing us which of the 5 modes are selected and whether the device has a wireless connection or a wired connection.

The router is fairly thin – 16mm at the thickest point and just over 11mm at the bottom edge. The front facing curved design looks elegant.

The reason for this thickness at the rear is purely to allow for a full-sized network socket. The company have also included a USB power socket at the top of the device.

Although not clear in this picture, there are two buttons on this side of the router, which have been set back from the side. The first is a WPS connect/ reset button and the other is a mode button. This allows the user to switch modes without going into the settings pages.

The bottom of the device continues the simple colour theme, with several grill spaces to allow lots of airflow through the device.

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