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An Introduction to the AVM FRITZ!Box Tech Specs Are you wondering which FRITZ!Box you should buy for your home or small business network? Does your current model have the features you need? Let’s find out. * WAN port is for the connection to a cable/DSL/fibre optic modem or existing network. ** In Germany, ISPs must allow customers to use their cable router of choice. In other countries, including the UK, cable providers often don’t allow customers to use another router directly at the cable connection, making it impossible to connect a FRITZ!Box. Consult your cable ISP for more information. *** LTE Internet uses the mobile phone networks, so needs a SIM card and a data plan. The FRITZ! Range 2.4GHz and 5GHz Bands Most models of FRITZ!Box offer both 2.4GHz…

The FRITZ!Box Interface Interface: The Sidebar The sidebar on the FRITZ!Box’s user interface is a very important tool for navigating your way around its settings. Here we show you how to use the sidebar and what features are listed under each section. Just click on a section title in the sidebar to expand it as shown. The Online Monitor shows you the speed of your Internet line, as well as the volume of traffic currently going through your router. Account Information is useful if you need to connect your router to a cable modem through WAN, and Filters lets you: change parental controls, access priorities and more. In the Home Network section, you can: extend your wireless reach with mesh and homeplug networking, see what devices are connected to your…

FRITZ!Box Projects Create a FRITZ!Box Media Server With the FRITZ!Box media server, you can enjoy photos, music and movies stored on your router’s internal memory or via a storage device plugged into its USB port (see Networking a Hard Drive tutorial). You can even use it to listen to Internet radio. 1 In the FRITZ!Box interface, go to Home Network > Media Server. Under the Settings tab, make sure ‘Media server enabled’ is ticked. By default, the router’s media server is called ‘AVM FRITZ!Mediaserver’. You can change this if you wish. If you do, remember to click the Apply button in the bottom right when you’re done. 2 The server can read media from both the router’s internal memory and USB storage devices plugged into the USB ports. If you don’t want…

FRITZ!Box Projects Configure and Use Guest Access With a FRITZ!Box, you can set aside bandwidth for a guest to use without logging on to your main wireless network. Maybe you run a cafe or a B&B, for example, and want to let your customers get online. Here’s how to configure it. A Guest Profile 1 In the FRITZ!Box interface, go to Internet > Filters > Access Profiles. As you can see, a Guest profile is already there by default, with unlimited online time and the filters set at Blacklist. You can change these settings; first of all, click on the Pencil button next to the Guest account. 2 You can change the name of the Guest account. You can also set when this account can access the Internet on your FRITZ!Box. ‘Always’…

FRITZ!Box Security Changing Your Passwords Your default router and Wi-Fi passwords are unique to your FRITZ!Box, and are found on the base of your router. You can, of course, change them to something more memorable, or maybe for security purposes. Changing Your Wireless Password 1 The default passwords for your router are found on a sticker located on its base. The WLAN Network (SSID) is the name of your wireless network. Below this is your WLAN Network Key: the router’s Wi-Fi password. To the right is the FRITZ!Box Password, which you use to log on to your FRITZ!Box interface. 2 If you want to change the password for your wireless network, displayed here as a row of numbers starting 0882, open the FRITZ!Box interface and go to Home Network > Security. Here…

FRITZ!Box Telephony Using a FRITZ!Fon Phone If you have a FRITZ!Box router with telephony features, you can connect up to six DECT wireless telephones, using the router as a base station. You can then locate your phones anywhere in the house – they don’t need a cabled connection to your phone line. The FRITZ!Fon Telephone in Action 1 For this guide, we’re using a FRITZ!Box 7590 and a FRITZ!Fon C5, but other models are available. First of all, remove the protective film from across the screen, and pull the tab that protects the battery. The phone starts automatically. 2 When the phone starts up, it boots into the New Registration screen, instructing you to press and hold the DECT button on the router. Depending on your router, this button is usually called…

FRITZ!Box Telephony Blocking Nuisance Callers Unfortunately, some people choose to use the telephone system to abuse or harass. If someone’s doing this to you on your phone, you can use your FRITZ!Box to block their incoming calls. It’s pretty straightforward to do. Here’s a guide to setting up blocks. Putting an End to Annoying Calls 1 First of all, go to Telephony > Call Handling. Click on the first tab, labelled Call Blocks. To block a number, so incoming calls from that number are automatically rejected, in the section labelled ‘Call blocks for incoming calls’, click the button marked ‘Prohibited numbers’. 2 On the Call Blocks page, click the New Entry button. Here you can add a name and a number. The name is optional, but advisable as you might want to…

For Reference… Maintenance and Troubleshooting The FRITZ!Box range of routers are very reliable, but like all technologies, they may have a problem from time to time. Here’s a guide to what to do if things go wrong, and how to put it right. Follow these steps and you’ll be back up and running. For If Things Go Wrong 1 If your router isn’t behaving as it should, the first thing you can do is restart it. In the user interface, go to System > Backup and click the Restart tab. From there, you can click the Restart button and, naturally, restart the router. It takes a few minutes. The Event Log is reset, but all other settings are retained. 2 If you need to restart your router, but you can’t get into…

An Introduction to the AVM FRITZ!Box An Introduction to the AVM FRITZ!Box What’s a FRITZ!Box? The FRITZ!Box is our choice of the perfect hardware to showcase how to get the most from your home network. Not only is it a super fast broadband router but is part of a large range of features that can broaden and diversify your home network. While there are numerous routers available the FRITZ!Box is our choice to showcase how much you can do with home networking.…

An Introduction to the AVM FRITZ!Box What’s Where? If you’re wondering what all those ports, buttons and lights on your FRITZ!Box are for, you’re reading the right page. Here we take a look at the four top models in the router range. FRITZ!Box 7590 AVM’s flagship router, for Internet and telephony FRITZ!Box 3490 A cheaper router, without telephony FRITZ!Box 6591 Cable A router for those who have cable Internet FRITZ!Box 6660 Cable The latest cable router from AVM FRITZ!Box 6890 LTE A router for both ADSL and mobile Internet What’s a SIM Card? A SIM (subscriber identification module) card is supplied by your mobile phone service provider, and allows you to get online using the mobile phone networks (3G/4G). You need to subscribe to a data package to use one…

The FRITZ!Box Interface Accessing the FRITZ!Box Interface If you want to get into your FRITZ!Box’s interface, you must use a regular web browser. Here we show you how to access the router’s settings, so you can make changes. Finding Your FRITZ!Box Controls 1 Regardless of what model you have, you can access the FRITZ!Box’s settings interface using a regular web browser. Here we’re using Safari on a Mac, but it can be any browser and any Internet device, as long as it’s connected to your FRITZ!Box, either wirelessly or through Ethernet. 2 To access the FRITZ!Box interface, type ‘fritz.box’ in your browsers address bar, seen here at the top of the window, and press Return/Enter. You’re taken to the router’s log-in screen, where you should enter the password you’ve set up to…

FRITZ!Box Projects FRITZ!Box Projects It’s amazing what you can do with your FRITZ!Box. You can connect a hard drive, or thumb stick, to its USB port and use that storage over the network. It’s a great media server. You could also connect a USB printer, and allow any device connected to your router to use it. You can even set aside a portion of your bandwidth for guests and visitors to use. Here’s how to do all this and more.…

FRITZ!Box Projects Networking a Printer If you have a printer that connects to your computer using USB, but can’t be connected to the network via Ethernet or Wi-Fi, there’s another solution. Connect it to your FRITZ!Box router using USB, and it’s then available to everyone on your network. Printing Over Your Home Network 1 First of all, plug your printer into the mains and then connect it to your FRITZ!Box router using a USB cable. If your router has two USB ports, either will do. Here, we’re using a Brother label printer, but any printer can be connected to the network in this way. Using macOS 2 If you’re on a Mac, open System Preferences and click Printers & Scanners. Click the plus sign, under the list of current printers, and in…

FRITZ!Box Projects Set Up and Use MyFRITZ! Setting up a MyFRITZ! account gives you access to a host of extra FRITZ!Box features, including getting onto your FRITZ!Box from the Internet, from a mobile device and on your own network for new and interesting features. 1 First of all, we need to create a MyFRITZ! account. You only need to do this once as when your MyFRITZ! account is up and running, with it you can register any number of FRITZ!Box routers. First of all, open the FRITZ!Box interface, and in the sidebar, go to Internet > MyFRITZ! Account. You see the screen shown here. 2 Enter the email address you wish to use for your MyFRITZ! account in the field provided, and then click the Next button. An email is sent to…

FRITZ!Box Security FRITZ!Box Security With hacking so prevalent and material unsuitable for children on the Internet, the home FRITZ!Box user might well worry about security issues. In this section, we show you how to change your router’s SSID for wireless connectivity, change your router password, and set up parental controls to keep your children safe online and stop them logging on when they should be doing their homework.…

FRITZ!Box Security Setting Up Parental Controls The parental controls built into your FRITZ!Box let you control how Internet devices interact on your home network. You can set restrictions for every network device; useful to stop your children spending too much time online. Setting a Child’s Profile 1 First of all, go to Internet > Filters, and click on the Access Profiles at the top of the window. We need to set up a profile for your child or children. Here we’ll set up a single profile called ‘Children’, but you can set up individual profiles for each child if you wish. To start, click the New Access Profile button. 2 Type the profile title under Name (it can be anything you like). To restrict how long your children (or child) can stay…

FRITZ!Box Telephony Setting Up and Using a Telephone Book You can set up phone books on your FRITZ!Box, and access them using your FRITZ!Fon. Calling on your landline can be just as convenient as it is on your smartphone. You can even set up more than one telephone book to use on your router. The FRITZ!Box Telephone Book 1 To get to the telephone book, in the FRITZ!Box interface, go to Telephony > Telephone Book and click on the Telephone Book tab. There’s a default, empty book called ‘telephone book’. Click the Pencil icon next to its name and change it if you wish. You can also click the ‘New telephone book’ link and open another book, if you want more than one. 2 To add an entry to your phone book,…

For Reference… Updating Your FRITZ!Box Router AVM constantly improves its products, and that definitely goes for FRITZ!OS, the operating system that runs on your FRITZ!Box. As it’s so regularly updated, it’s wise to make sure your own FRITZ!Box router is kept up to date. Here’s how to do it. Keeping FRITZ!OS Up to Date 1 In the FRITZ!Box interface, on the Overview page (the default landing area), look in the top right corner of the window. If it says there’s an update available, as it does here, click that link and you’re taken to System > Update. Alternatively, just navigate there yourself in the side bar. 2 On this screen, read all about the new features added with the update. For more detailed information, click on the ‘Important information about the new…

An Introduction to the AVM FRITZ!Box What’s a FRITZ!Box? What’s a FRITZ!Box, and why do you need one? If you’re still confused about what this premium Wi-Fi router is and what it can do for you, we take a look right here. So let’s get started! A quarter of a century ago, home computers that accessed the Internet usually did so using just a modem. Short for modulator-demodulator, a modem connected your computer to your phone line and converted technical data to a sound that could be transmitted from computer to computer. As households – and businesses – began to take more and more computers and increasingly other devices onto the Internet, routers were born. These allowed more than one device at a time to go online. You could connect…

An Introduction to the AVM FRITZ!Box Setting up Your FRITZ!Box Before you can enjoy your FRITZ!Box router, you must first set it up. Different FRITZ!Box models are connected to your landline, cable or LTE service in different ways, so here, we concentrate on setting up your router with your ISP’s settings. 1 If you didn’t get your FRITZ!Box router from your Internet Service Provider (ISP), you have to set it up. Go online, and get the instructions from your ISP’s help page. Here, for example, is the settings page for the UK ISP TalkTalk; select the one that’s appropriate for your router, and print it out. Follow the guide that came with the router to plug it in. 2 If your computer isn’t connected to the router through an Ethernet cable, wait…

The FRITZ!Box Interface Interface: Overview The first page you see when you open your FRITZ!Box interface is the Overview page. We’re using the Standard view, rather than the experts-only Advanced view, throughout this guide. Obviously, if your FRITZ!Box lacks some of the features described here, they won’t be shown on your own Overview screen. 1 This is the model of FRITZ!Box you’re using. This is helpful if you need to look something up and you can’t remember which model you have. 2 Click here to go to your optional MyFRITZ! account. Setting up a MyFRITZ! account gives access to more features. 3 Click here to get straight to the FRITZ!NAS feature, and access a storage drive directly connected to your router’s USB port. We cover this in more detail later. 4 The three-dots icon…

FRITZ!Box Projects Configuring USB Ports as 2.0 or 3.0 If your FRITZ!Box is USB 3.0, the USB ports can be set to either USB 2.0, which uses less power, or USB 3.0, which is faster. Here we show you how to go into the user interface and switch between the USB 2.0 and the USB 3.0 settings Your Router’s USB Port Settings 1 USB is fully backwards compatible with USB 2.0, so you can use a slower, USB 2.0 peripheral in the port, if you wish. But if you have a USB 2.0 device connected to the port, there’s no advantage in having the port set to the faster, but more power-hungry, USB 3.0 setting. 2 Open the FRITZ!Box user interface, as explained in an earlier tutorial. Now go to Home Network…

FRITZ!Box Telephony If your FRITZ!Box has telephony features, you can configure up to six DECT telephones to use your router as a base station. In other words, when your router is connected to your telephone landline, your DECT phones connect to your router and don’t need individual telephone ports. You can also set up an answering machine, and use your FRITZ!Box to send and receive faxes. Let’s take a look at how it’s all done.…

FRITZ!Box Telephony Answer Machine, Alarm & Fax Service When you’ve connected your phone to your router, you can use your FRITZ!Box as a fax machine and a telephone answering machine. It’s another great feature of which you might not be aware. Here’s how to set up and use both services. Answer Machine 1 Go to Telephony > Answering Machine and switch it on by clicking the switch. The answering machine now picks up the call after the phone has rung for 20 seconds. You can click the ‘Another answering machine’ link in the top right, if you want to use more than one answering machine message or functions. 2 Click Settings to configure it. You can change the time before it kicks in, set it to answer some, or all numbers, and…

For Reference… Power Saving on a FRITZ!Box The FRITZ!Box router is very power-efficient, but you can reduce its power consumption still further by following a few practical tips. Here’s a guide to saving money by saving electricity, and also doing your bit for the planet by using power-saving modes. Save Money and be Eco-Friendly 1 You can see how much power your FRITZ!Box is currently consuming by going into the FRITZ!Box interface. On the Overview page, in the top left corner, you can see its current power consumption as a percentage. Click on this link for a breakdown of the router’s energy use, including what’s connected. 2 If no one is going to use the wireless (Wi-Fi) network for a while, you can switch off the wireless radio. This is achieved by…