Tenda MW3 Mesh - Wake on Lan

[slipd]

Hi guys,

Has anyone had any long term experience of Tenda stuff? I got some kit, dirt cheap, just before Christmas to remove a couple of blackspots in the house, knowing that we had a lot of people over - and to be honest, it's been brilliant! But... I've recently had the need to use Wake on Lan and I think I've just found my first limitation

I've tried all sorts, with the mesh kit out of the equation, no problems. So it must be that? The management app and tech support are very limited, so worse case scenario I'll just have pay a bit more, and upgrade to something that supports WOL. Just seems an odd 'feature' to miss off?

Thanks.

 

[BigT]

My first thought is are you running it in bridge mode or 'normal' out-of-the-box mode. If in its normal mode then all clients on the mesh are on a different subnet from things connected directly to your router. If something connected to the router sends a WOL packet to a device connected to the Tenda it might not reach it I *think* (not sure because WOL uses MAC and not IP). IP issues related to this are more commonly experienced with people saying things like "I can't see my wireless printer".

It's a long shot but worth trying the two different modes it runs in anyway and see if one works for you with the WOL. Running in bridge mode loses you a lot of the fancier features of the Tenda system though.

 

[slipd]

My first thought is are you running it in bridge mode or 'normal' out-of-the-box mode. If in its normal mode then all clients on the mesh are on a different subnet from things connected directly to your router. If something connected to the router sends a WOL packet to a device connected to the Tenda it might not reach it I *think* (not sure because WOL uses MAC and not IP). IP issues related to this are more commonly experienced with people saying things like "I can't see my wireless printer".

It's a long shot but worth trying the two different modes it runs in anyway and see if one works for you with the WOL. Running in bridge mode loses you a lot of the fancier features of the Tenda system though.

Thanks, yeah, I think I'm going to have to have a bit of a play aren't I...

I'm running the kit in bridge mode because I need better router features; reserved ip's, a custom range etc., a few other bits that the Tenda stuff doesn't have.

I actually read on another forum that WOL isn't generally supported on any Mesh kit - that can't be true can it?

 

[BigT]

I think bridge mode is the one more likely to have success so if you're already running it that way I think you're going to be out of luck. I'm a bit outside my comfort zone but I think WOL support for magic packets is indeed supported or not in hardware so it is feasible the Tendas just don't support it. They are budget items and stripping features not used by 99% of their intended user base to save costs would not be outrageous.

 

[slipd]

I've checked-in with a few brands now, D-Link, BT, Netgear and TP-Link and it doesn't appear that WOL is supported on any of their mesh kit.