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"Fritzbox! Reviews (replacement for 'double box' system)"

Hi,

I'm thinking of replacing my Freeola/BT VDSL kit with a Fritzbox.

The main reason is to free up a plug, however, I see that the Fritzbox has added features.

Has anyone had experience of the range? If so, what are they like to install and run?

Neil

I connected my phone system to it yesterday. Quite impressed at the features available for call handling.

There is Do Not Disturb, fax, answer phone. Mobile can pick up and use land line. Alarm clocks.

There's all kind of goodies.

The Fritz!Box 7490 is a good piece of kit (once you get it working).

N.

I switched the channels to manual but discovered I had the wrong 'allow new device' setting set.

I assumed that 'Do not allow any new device' related to mac address filtering, so set that.

I reset it to allow all new devices and everything connected (with WPA2).

EDIT: The 'Do Not Allow...' does relate to MAC address filtering, but you have to let the device attempt to connect once with the 'Allow...' setting before you switch over. A bit long-winded really.

Neil

Anything useful in the logs? Check both ends (router and PC).


[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Make sure it hasn't switched to a high channel. If your devices are wireless N or G some don't like the high channels such as 13 and 14. If they are ac then I'm not sure, don't have experience of the new standard. Also if auto channel switching is on switch it off and set the channels manually (use the channel monitor on the router to pick a good channel).

Famous last words.

None of my Wifi devices are connecting. The key is correct.

Almost at the point of giving up..

N.

Thanks for the response, Eccles.

FYI I actually have

0,38
Annex A

and it seems to be flying.

Regards,

Neil

Did you change the VLAN id?
If not you need to tick the box that says 'Use VLAN for Internet access' and set the ID to 101.

Edit beat me to it!

For reference VLAN:101
VCI: 32
VPI:1
Encapsulation: PPPoE
Annex B.

@Eccles

Help!

I had a 7490 delivered today. I have spent the entire day trying to get it to connect to Freeola.

It says ready with my expected down and up speeds as expected, but I have no internet whatsoever.

I have entered all the right MAC addresses, username, password Vci, Vpi, pppoa/vc-mux.

Have I missed something?

Neil

EDIT: Got it!! I had to set the VLAN ID to 101 *and* use PPPoE. That only took 7 hours to work out.

Thanks.

Looks like I may get one.

N.

It has a pretty good interface for non techy users so should be fairly easy to setup. You can switch to advanced mode if you like to tinker a bit. WiFi range is good in my house and also reaches out to the garden shed/man cave, which can be handy. It all depends on the environment it is in though but it's certainly one of the better routers I've tried and I've had a fair few! DECT is good, nice to get rid of another box (phone base station) and be able to get answering machine messages emailed to me when not at home. Also makes it easy to block annoying calls.