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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. wonw.bdmpublications.com | 7Using a FRITZ'Box Wi-Fi Mesh Are you having trouble with your household Wi-Fi’s reach? Does your network struggle in rooms that are too far away from the router? Help is at hand. With the FRITZ!Box’s Wi-Fi Mesh feature, you can extend your Wi-Fi to anywhere in the house. A Wi-Fi Mesh combines FRITZ! products, ‘such as your router, with accessories like a Wi-Fi Repeater, Powerline Adapters and even a spare FRITZ!Box router, into one big wireless network. By placing the secondary device at the furthest point your router’s wireless can reach, you can extend your wireless network into places it couldn't previously go. > Only FRITZ! products can be used in a FRITZ!Box mesh (other manufacturers’ peripherals can be used in the FRITZIBox network). Your router must run FRITZIOZ 7.0 or above. To check, open the Overview page in the interface, and look in the top right corner. If you need to update, do it now - see the updating tutorialThe Mesh in Action When you set up a mesh, your ‘main’ FRITZIBox router (we're using a 7590 model here) is known as the Mesh Master. When you connect a repeater, powerline adapter, or second FRITZ!Box router to the main router ina Wi-Fi Mesh, your Mesh Master copies its settings to the secondary device, and incorporates it into the network as an extender. ira dC racy >> The information transferred from your router, the Mesh Master (1) to a wireless repeater (2), a powerline adapter, (3) or a secondary router, used purely as an extender, includes the SSID (your Wi-Fi network's name), its passwords, quest access details, and schedules. This way, you can enjoy your network all over the house using a single login. cs ‘ahav FRITZ!WLAN Repeater > For this, you need a FRITZ!WLAN Repeater, such as the FRITZ!Repeater 3000 (LEFT) or the FRITZIRepeater 1750E (RIGHT) shown here. Find a spare plug socket for it Ideally, this should be placed somewhere that gets a strong signal from the router, but as far away from it as possible, and in the direction of your Wi-Fi blind spots. 2) Open the FRITZIBox Interface, and in the sidebar go to Home Network > Mesh Plug your FRITZ! Repeater into the mains somewhere near your router, and make Networking. You will see your router (here a sure it's powered up. Here we're using a FRITZIBox 7590) and all the devices connected to _-FRITZ!Repeater 3000, but this step applies it, whether wireless or cabled. If you have DECT whichever model you're using. When the phones connected, these are also listed. If your Connect light starts to blink, press the Connect FRITZIBox's operating system is up to date, it button until it flashes faster. should display the Mesh Enabled icon.Aya > Within two minutes, press the WPS button 9) Unplug your repeater and move it to the ‘on your FRITZ!Box. If your router has a place where you intend to locate it. If the WPS, or Connect/WPS button, press it once. If it LED glows orange, move it closer to your router. has a WLAN or WLAN/WPS button, press it for ‘As you can see on the FRITZ!Box interface, found around six seconds. The WLAN LED will flash. in the sidebar at Home Network > Mesh (Once the connection has been accepted and the Networking, the repeater is connected to your settings transferred, the Connect and Wi-Filights network. Ifit displays the Mesh Enabled icon, it is on your extender will be on. successfully integrated into the mesh. §> The higher-end FRITZIWLAN Repeaters, such as the FRITZ!Repeater 3000 shown here, have LAN (Local Area Network) ports as well as Wi-Fi capabilities. This means if you have a device that can connect to the network using an Ethernet cable, you can plug it into the repeater for a cabled network connection.od oe c a, c — FRITZ!Powerline Plugs Ji A FRITZ!Powerline plug set works differently to the Wi-Fi Repeater. With powerline adapters, such as the FRITZ! models, you connect one adapter to the router through Ethernet and plug it into the mains, and the other you place wherever it's needed. Your household electricity cables are used to transfer data between your adapter and your router. Fritz: Powsnune Frivz: gy! © |-- 41> Check the instructions for the powerline 13> Plug the second powerline adapter in plugs, and find out which one is a wireless nearby, so you can move quickly from the access point; it should havea WLAN LED on the —_—_router to the adapter plug. If your router has a front. First, plug the other powerline plug into the WPS, or Connect/WPS button, press it once. If it mains near your router, and then use the Ethernet has a WLAN or WLAN/WPS button, press it for (LAN) cable to connect the router to the LAN around six seconds. Then press the Connect port at the base of the plug. button on the powerline adapter for around one second; the LEDs will flash manatea ad Kz 1» You can then move the WLAN powerline adapter to wherever you wish. The other adapter needs to remain connected to the router. There's a LAN port on the base of the plugs which can be used for cabled connections, and if you go to Home Network > Mesh Networking, you can see the WLAN access point in the second plug has joined your Mesh. Software for FRITZIPowerline > IF you open your web browser and type There's also some downloadable software http:/fritz,powerline in the address field, you can use to manage your homeplugs. you can use a web interface for your powerline Go to enavm.de/powerline and download it. It's network. You have to log in with your router's free, and you can get it for the Mac or Windows. password, and there's a few language and region It’s entirely optional, but it's useful for adding choices to make, but when you're done, you'll additional powerline adapters to the powerline arrive at the adapter's overview page, as shown. network, giving each individual adapter a unique name and more.Using a Second FRITZ!Box Router 4)> |f you have a spare FRITZIBox router, maybe an out-of-date model you replaced with a new ‘one, you can set it up as a Mesh Repeater, with your main FRITZ!Box as the Mesh Master. Both FRITZIBoxes must have FRITZIOS version 7.00 installed; see the tutorial on updating your FRITZ!Box, if necessary. 18> In the FRITZIBox user interface for your 49)> Now get your secondary router, and plug it main router, go to Home Network > Mesh into the mains. When its booted up, log on Networking and click on the Mesh Settings tab at to the old router's Wi-Fi, and check the version of the top of the screen. Make sure the top option, _FRITZIOS isat least 70; Ifit isn't (as shown here), ‘FRITZIBox as the Mesh Master’ is selected, and you can update, as outlined in our tutorial, or go to then click on the Apply button found in the https:/ftp.avm de/fritzbox/ and download the bottom right corner. version of FRITZIOS you need from there.2 If you downloaded the firmware from the AVM FTP site (see Step 19), put it on a flash drive, then plug it into the computer you've connected to your old FRITZIBox. On the FRITZ!Box interface, go to System > Update. Click on View (bottom left) to switch to the Advanced view, then click on FRITZ!OS- file and update as instructed. ita ed In the user interface for the FRITZIBox you're going to use as the Mesh Repeater (that is, not the one you use at the heart of your home network), navigate to Home Network > Mesh Networking, and click on FRITZ!Box as a Mesh Repeater. Make sure “This FRITZIBox is a network device’ is checked, and also ‘via wireless LAN’. Scroll the screen up, and enter the network key (Wi-Fi password) for the router you wish to mesh with, and check ‘Adopt settings enabled’ and optionally, Using the Mesh Master's, Telephone Book’. Click on the Apply button, and your main router's settings are transferred to your Mesh Repeater router. When you see the screen telling you this is done, you can log onto the FRITZ!Box interface for your main router once more. Navigate to Home Network > Mesh Networking again, and you'll see your old FRITZ!Box has joined your Wi-Fi Mesh as a repeater. Move it to the edge of your main router's Wi-Fi signal and plug it in,Home Devices The smart home is catching on. Soon all our electronic gadgets will be accessible from our phones and tablets; already we have an exciting range from which to choose. Here we take a look at some of AVM’s FRITZ! smart home devices, and what they do. FRITZIDECT 301 Thermostat » First, let’s look at the FRITZ!DECT 301, ‘D> Fit the FRITZIDECT 301 thermostat to a which is currentiy only available in radiator, according to the supplied Germany, but will be out across Europe soon. instructions. Then, in your FRITZIBox interface, go This device fits on your radiator and lets you to Home Networking > Smart Home and click reconfigure when your heating comes on and Register New Device. It finds your FRITZIDECT off, helping you save eneray, as well as switch it 301, and lets you set it up to your requirements: on and off remotely. as shown, Do so, and then click OK.» 7 ranz: | Ooo Preraoe o FRITZ!DECT 200 Smart Plug Plug the smart plug in somewhere close to your router. Press the On/Off button to switch it on. To register it with your FRITZ!Box, press and hold the DECT button until it starts flashing, then press the DECT button on your FRITZIBox. When both light flash, you can unplug your smart plug and take it to wherever, you want to use it. ira dC racy You can now go to Home Network > ‘Smart Home on your FRITZIBox interface and configure the plug to your own requirements. Using the FRITZ!Fon app for smartphones and tablets, you can change its name, decide whether it can be switched on and off, and more. To schedule on/off time, click the Switch Automatically tab. Tepony at ame Devens The front page at Home Network > Smart Home shows the smart home devices currently connected to your FRITZ!Box router. It's here that you can register new devices, change the order in which they're presented and more. To ecit a device's settings, press its Pencil button. To delete it from your FRITZIBox, press its Cross button.Comores Peery aad Sey Tate eeetral eC FRITZ'Box mai ay 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. Pee enoChanging Your Network’s SSID Your network’s SSID, or Service Set Identifier, is the ‘name’ of your wireless network. If you wish, you can change it to anything you like. Here we show you how to find your SSID in your FRITZ!Box interface, and replace the default name. ) 90% ME Sat 22 Jun 2:07 pm ay Tun Wi-FL oft FRITZIBox 7590 lan Osborne's iPhone ¥ FRITZIB&0x 7590 GK Devon Sales House. of Felix smithst Viegin Mesia yw7625092 doin Other Network Create Network (Open Network Preferences. When you search for Wi-Fi networks with ‘Q»> To change your FRITZIBox’s SSID: in the your computer, or mobile device, a list of FRITZ!Box interface, go to Wireless > nearby networks is displayed. You must find Radio Network. As you can see, this router's your own before you log on. By default, a current SSID is ‘FRITZ!Box 7590 GK’. To change FRITZIBox router’s SSID (the name of its this, simply delete the current name and wireless network) is ‘FRITZ!Box’ followed by the —_replace it with anything you like. You can use model number of your router. up to 32 characters.Here we've changed the wireless network's SSID to ‘Awesome Home Network’. If you've already connected devices to your wireless network using the old SSID, you need to reconnect them to the new one. Just follow the manufacturer's instructions for getting, the wireless device onto the network. FRITZ!Box Securit If you wish, you can give the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz channels a different SSID, so they appear as different networks on your Wi-Fi (but share the same password). This is useful if you want to prioritise your faster 5 GHz channel when logging on, but modern, equipment does this for you, so using different names is usually unnecessary. You can also hide the SSID, so when anyone in the vicinity searches for nearby networks, yours is hidden. Check the box marked ‘Name of the wireless radio network visible’. This is entirely optional of course and most people don't bother to hide their SSIDs. ‘When you've changed router settings, remember you must click the Apply button, found in the bottom right, before you shut down the interface. If you don't, the new settings will not be applied to your router. OF course, you can click on Cancel instead, to leave them as they were.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. nner crispy7120 mane | FRITZ!Box 7590 GK ‘assem ame 0882, 0246, 9998 4574,0095 [satel ati 0. HRESGE%s4s.00.007.906 & Sernen [ocooseeccccoiaracs CE tn AY Changing Your Wireless Password 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 FRITZIBox Password, which you use to log on to your FRITZIBox interface. If you want to change the password for your wireless network, displayed here as a row of numbers starting 0882, open the FRITZIBox interface and go to Home Network > Security. Here you see the number found on your router's sticker, listed as Network Key. This is your wireless password. Poa enco3»> Change the passcode to anything you like, but make sure it’s something you can remember, and it's not too short, or easily guessed, IF you change your password, any devices currently registered with your wireless network must be re-registered with your new password. You can switch your security off by selecting ‘non-encrypted’ at the top of the page, but this isn’t recommended iA eT fie Changing Your Router Password » You can also change your router's password, that is, the password you use when you log on to the FRITZIBox interface. To do this, first ofall ‘open the FRITZIBox interface using your current password, found on the sticker on the bottom of the router (crispy7120 on the sticker shown in Step 1). Click the Three-dots icon in the top right comer. '§)> Select Change Password from the menu that appears, and then enter your new password. Make sure it’s memorable, and not easily guessed; you don’t want hackers or other miscreants messing with your router. When you're done, click the Apply button in the bottom right, and you're done.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 ist of all, go to Internet > Filters, and @ Type the profile title under Name (it can lick on the Access Profiles at the top of be anything you like) To restrict how long the window. We need to set up a profile for your _your children (or child) can stay online on any Child or children. Here we'll set up a single profile given day, in Time Budget, on the right, click called ‘Children’, but you can set up individual Restricted. You can now set how long that profile profiles for each child if you wish. To start, click can stay online. As you can see here, we've ‘the New Access Profile button. allowed two hours on a school day, and five hours at weekends. Pa@ You can also set the times at which this profile is allowed online. At the top of the box labelled ‘Period, choose Restricted option and click the Internet Use Blocked button. Now you can drag the pointer over the times you don't, want your child or children online, Use the Internet Use Allowed button in the same way to allow Internet use. FRITZ!Box Securit “» IF you prefer, you can click the Enter Manually button and set the time restrictions in this way. Whichever way you do it, devices assigned this profile will only be allowed to ‘access the Internet at times you've set as allowed. Just the thing if you want to stop your kids going online with their phones under the bedclothes. If you're planning to use the FRITZ!Box’s Guest Access feature (see tutorial on Configure and Use Guest Access), make sure you check the ‘Use of guest access blocked’ box, or your children could simply switch to the guest account as soon as their allowed time online is up. If the Shared Budget box is checked, the profile's time online is shared between devices set to use that profile. For example, if you've set up a profile called ‘David’ for your son, and you have set his laptop, smartphone, and tablet to that profile and he has two hours online time, this is two hours in total, not two hours for each device.7» To restrict the websites the set profile can access, click the ‘Filter web sites’ box. Filtering works in two ways; Whitelist sets a list of sites that can be accessed; everything else is blocked. A Blacklist works in the opposite way; everything is accessible, unless it appears on the blacklist. Choose which one you want to use. a >> To add websites to the whitelist or the blacklist (they both work the same), go to Internet > Filters and click on the Lists tab. From here, if you're using the Whitelist restrictions, click Edit on ‘Permitted web sites (whitelist’ to add permitted websites. If you use Blacklist then click Edit on ‘Blocked web sites (blacklist)’ and add banned sites {> Before you leave the page, make sure you click the ‘OK’ button at the bottom right of the screen. If you don't, the settings will not be saved to the router, and will instead be lost. You can, of course, return to the profile later and edit your settings; go to Internet > Filters > Access Profiles and click on the Pencil button for the profile you want to edit. 10) Both lists work in the same way; type or copy-and-paste the website’s URL into the list. Again, when you're done, click the Apply button, or your new settings will be lost. You can buy online, or even obtain for free, lists of websites that deserve to be blacklisted or whitelisted, or you could just add sites as you go,> Now it’s time to apply this profile to online devices our children use, such as their laptops, tablets, or smartphones. In the FRITZIBox interface, go to Internet > Filters and click on the Parental Controls tab. You see a list of all devices registered with your router's network, Allare currently on the Standard profile, with unrestricted Internet use. FRITZ!IBox 3» Now if your child tries to access a website that’s not on the whitelist or is on the blacklist (whichever is applicable), they see this message. Likewise, they can't get onto the Internet at all during banned times, or if they've exceeded their allotted time online. Of course, if you run a whitelist, they can always ask for a site to be added. FRITZ!Box Securit 1) Find your child's gadgets, and with the pull-down, change 'Standard’ to ‘Children’ (or whatever you've called the child's profile). Once again, we've set up a single child's profile here, but you can set one for each of your children individually if you wish. You can get to the profile's settings with the Pencil button on its right. Click Apply when done. aodFRitZ! Fon DEA yucanconfigue etd idan pe Manner eneroFRITZ!Box Telephony FRITZ!Box OY 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. Peo enc =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. Coed The FRITZ!Fon Telephone in Action 1) For this guide, we're using a FRITZ!Box 7590 2)» When the phone starts up, it boots into the and a FRITZIFon C5, but other models are New Registration screen, instructing you to available. First of all, remove the protective film press and hold the DECT button on the router. from across the screen, and pull the tab that Depending on your router, this button is usually protects the battery. The phone starts automatically. called DECT or Paging. On the router we're using here, it's called Fon/DECT, as you can see.Aa! @ The phone registers with your base “» If you wish, you can change the name of station (the router), and reboots. It the phone. In DECT > Cordless synchronises the time and date with your router, Telephones, click on the handset’s Pencil button and displays them on the phone's start screen. _to edit its settings. If you have more than one It's now ready to use. In your FRITZ!Box line, you can set its phone number for outgoing interface, go to DECT > Cordless Telephones, calls, and when calls are incoming, limit the where it will be displayed as ‘Handset 1. numbers to which it reacts. > Here, as you can see, we've set up six FRITZIFons with our router, and given each a specific name. These names are displayed on the phone's screen. You can make internal calls across these phones using the phone numbers listed here, or by pressing the phone's Int button and from the menu, selecting the phone you want.» You can change the ringtone of your FRITZ!Fon and, if you have more than one, give each phone a different tone. On the FRITZ!Box interface, go to DECT > Cordless Phones, and click the Pencil button of the handset you wish to change. You can then set ringtones with the pull-down menus, and assign different tones for: Internal, Alarm and Important calls. @ You can also add your own ringtone, from your computer. On the screen you looked at in Step 6, click the Pencil button next to the “Own ring tone’ option, and assign it a name. Click Choose File and navigate to the tone, which must be in an MP3 format, and then upload it. After which you can use the ringtone along with the built-in tones. Go to DECT > Cordless Phones and click the Do Not Disturb tab. You can then set up a time when the phones will not ring for incoming calls. This setting does not apply to contacts you've defined as ‘Important’ in the telephone book. When you've finished setting up, click the ‘OK’ button, or the settings will not be saved._» For even more features, go to DECT > With the screen we looked at in Step 9, Cordless Phones, choose a phone to edit you can upload a photo or image to (Pencil button) and click the Telephony Device display on your phone's Start screen. Upload it Features tab. In the first section, titled ‘on your computer, then follow the instructions ‘Convenience and Device Features’, you can to show it on the FRITZIFon. You can also set up have the phone listen in when messages are the phone's equaliser to boost or dampen bass, recorded on the answering machine, Configure modify midrange tones or treble, and adjust the call waiting settings and more. interference filter. ap IF you go to DECT > Web Services you can set up all sorts of features on your phone. You can read your emails on your handset, read RSS feeds, listen to podcasts or web radio on the phone (you can use cabled headphones in the handset’s headphone socket if you wish) and even get a live feed from a webcam. Follow the onscreen instructions to configure.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 @® To get to the telephone book, in the @ To add an entry to your phone book, click FRITZIBox interface, go to Telephony > the New Entry button. Add details for Telephone Book and click on the Telephone Book your contact, including private, work, and mobile tab. There's a default, empty book called numbers, a quick-dial number and an email ‘telephone book’. Click the Pencil icon next to its address to use email on your FRITZIFon. You can name and change it if you wish. You can also also set the contact as important, so they can get click the ‘New telephone book’ link and open through even when you're on Do Not Disturb. another book, if you want more than one. Click OK when done.3> You can add a photo for your new contact too. In Telephony > Telephone Book, click ‘on the ‘telephone book’ tab and find the contact. Click the pencil button, and on the next screen, click on the Add Photo tab. Click the Add Photo button, and follow the on-screen instructions to add it. Then, when that person calls, his or her pic is displayed on your FRITZIFon, Aa! > You can export the contents of your FRITZ!Box telephone book. In Telephony > Telephone Book, telephone book tab, click on Save and your book is saved as an XML document. To restore the saved telephone book, click on Restore, Click Choose File and navigate to the saved file. Click Restore Telephone Book and it's back.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 Go to Telephony > Answering Machine and switch it on by clicking the switch. The answering machine now picks up the call after the pphone 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. Click Settings to configure it. You can change the time before it kicks in, set it to answer some, or all numbers, and set whether it allows incoming callers to leave a message. You can upload your own greeting and/or music as an MP3 file, and also set the answering machine to behave differently according to time.Aa! Alarm > Go to Telephony > Alarm and as you can » Further down the page, you can set the see, there are three alarm tabs at the top alarm to go off every day, or only on certain of the screen, so you can set three alarms days, if you wish. If the alarm is a one-off, e.g. a independently. Click the Enable Alarm box, and super-early alert for you to catch your holiday flight, set a time for it to go off. You can set some, or all, choose ‘no repetition’ and it only goes off on the of your phones to go off, and set text of your next day and isn't repeated, When you're done, choice to display on the handset. click Apply to save it. Fax Service i Go to Telephony > Fax, and read the There are now some more complex settings instructions on the screen before clicking you must add, which depend on the settings ‘Configure fax function’. You should then set a associated with your email address. For example, Fax ID, and an email address to which you want Google ‘icloud SMTP server’, to get the name of the your incoming faxes sent. If you want them saved _ server and port. After selecting the configured too, choose whether to save them internally or telephone number (see Telephony > Telephone on a USB storage device. Numbers) to send and receive faxes, you're done.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 @ First ofall, o to Telephony > Call Handling. @ On the Call Blocks page, click the New Click on the frst tab, labelled Call Blocks. Entry button, Here you can add a name To block a number, so incoming calls from that and a number. The name is optional, but advisable number are automatically rejected, in the section as you might want to unblock it later and a name. labelled ‘Call blocks for incoming calls’, click the makes it easier to find. You can block as many button marked ‘Prohibited numbers’. numbers as you like per name, and they can be Private, Business, Mobile, or Fax numbers.Click OK when you're done, and your prohibited number is saved in your call blocks lst. If you want to edit an entry, maybe to add a new number, click on the Pencil icon. To delete an entry, click its Cross icon. To add another number to your block list, click the New Entry button in the top left of the window. Aa! a> If you've just received a call you wish to block in the future, an easy way of doing this is by opening Telephone > Calls, copying the number, going through Steps 1 and 2 and then pasting it into the number field of the new entry. This saves you having to write it down and type it in.cr nel Fee iosWHAT IS AVAXHOME?eee Par Teen ci De er Co Cea eee a Unlimited satisfaction one low price Cheap constant access to piping hot media Protect your downloadings from Big brother Safer, than torrent-trackers 18 years of seamless operation and our users' satisfaction PVT eT t-55 Te Tare Mea eles AvaxHome - Your End Place We have everything for all of your needs. Just open https://avxlive.icu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 ®@ In the FRITZIBox 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. @ 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 features included in the new FRITZIOS' link, which opens in another window or tab. When you're ready, click the Start Update button to proceed.FRITZ!Box » The router downloads the update from the Internet and installs it. This process may take a few minutes, so make sure you don't turn it off or otherwise interrupt the installation process. And obviously, you can’t use the Internet while the update is in progress, so make sure you're not doing anything important online. Sos fied When the update process has been completed, the FRITZ!Box is shut down and rebooted automatically. After it has restarted, you're invited to log in to the FRITZ!Box interface again, using your router password. On doing so, you'll be notified that the update has completed. You're invited to receive regular emails about the FRITZIBox (optional), and then you're done. URAC reece As enact Naira nes Fee Eee em mes Ce eR enn nese a de, which is AVM's FTP site for its latest operating Pec me Cities Se rte sn Eg een Ma ome eda ——— Decorate eo ecu Co EO tM Cana Lrg eet Ue couene ea CCC change it to advanced. Go to System > Update and Cree esa AC ace nee instructions to back up your settings, then install Teen eePower Saving ona 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 ®@ You can see how much power your @® If no one is going to use the wireless FRITZIBox is currently consuming by (WI-FI) network for a while, you can going into the FRITZ!Box interface. On the switch off the wireless radio. This is achieved by Overview page, in the top left corner, you can see _briefly pressing the router's WLAN button, its current power consumption asa percentage. __ going to Home Network > Wireless on a Click on this link for a breakdown of the router’s connected FRITZIFon, or in MyFRITZ!App on an energy use, including what’s connected i0S or Android device, go to the Convenience Features > Wireless page.RECs 7 if your wireless network is regularly idle at By Go to Home Network > Network and click certain times, you can schedule it to come the Network Settings tab, then scroll the on and off according to a pre-configured window all the way up. Under LAN Settings, you timetable. In the FRITZ!Box interface, go to can choose a faster 1 Gbit/s speed or a slower, Wireless > Schedule, where you can establish its less power-hungry, 100 Mbit/s for each LAN port downtime for a set period every day, or at (the cabled ports around the back of your different times on each day of the week. router). Ifa connected device doesn't need the extra speed, switch to the slower one. rd ear) rans > vou can also operate the USB ports at reduced power. Go to Home Network > USB Devices and click the USB Settings tab. Here you can switch from the faster USB 3.0 to the slower, but lower-powered, USB 2.0. If a connected device is USB 2.0-only, there's really no reason not to do this, as, it can't take advantage of the higher speeds anyway.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 » 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, ‘46 | vw bdmpublications.com @ If you need to restart your router, but you can't get into the FRITZ!Box interface, there's another (rather obvious) way to do so. Disconnect the router from the mains, either by switching it off at the socket or pulling the plug ut of the back. Wait around five seconds, then reconnect and let it reboot.Sos Welcome to your FRITZIBox > If you're having trouble getting onto the FRITZ!Box interface, there's a couple of tricks you can try. If you're currently just typing ‘frtz.box’, try using its full address, ‘http://fritz.box’. There's also an emergency address you can use, but only from a computer connected to the FRITZ!Box with a cabled (LAN) connection. This is 169.254.17" )) If you changed your wireless network password from the number on the bottom of the router and forgot your new one, go to Wireless > Security and read it from the interface. If you have forgotten your router password, use the ‘Forgot your password’ link on the front page of the user interface and follow the on-screen instructions, :> If you're unable to resolve your problems, or you want to pass on your FRITZ!Box to someone else, you can reset it to factory settings and then start again. Go to System > Backup and click the Factory Settings tab. It's always wise to back up your settings first, in System > Backup and then the Saves tab. wwwebdmpublications.com| 47FRITZ!Apps for Your Phone AVM has released a range of smartphone and tablet apps for your iOS, or Android devices, which give all sorts of extra features you can use with your FRITZ!Box. All these apps are free, and available from their respective online stores, so they’re definitely worth trying. MyFRITZ!App FRITZ!App Fon MyFRITZ!App gives you mobile access to your With FRITZ!App Fon installed on your FRITZ!Box router. You can: access your call list smartphone, you can make landline calls from and voice messages, control your FRITZ! smart your mobile phone or tablet. You can listen to home devices, and use connected USB devices all__ answering machine messages through the app, from your phone or tablet. and use the router’s telephone book too.FRITZ!App Media This one’s only available on Android, so if that’s. your system, then it's great for enjoying the media stored on your FRITZ!Box on the move. If you store media on your router, or a connected USB device, it’s an invaluable app. FRITZ!App TV If you have a FRITZ!WLAN Repeater DVB-C, you can use FRITZ!App TV to watch unencrypted cable channels on your phone. Options like muting, switching channels by wiping the screen, and zoom are available. Sos FRITZ!App WLAN With the FRITZ!App WLAN installed on your iOS, ‘or Android device, you can keep an eye on your wireless network from anywhere in the world. You can see - and control - what's logging on, and monitor its statistics too. FRITZ!App Cam FRITZ!App Cam turns your smartphone, or tablet, into a webcam. Available for Android devices only, you can install FRITZ!App Cam on your mobile device and control it from your browser ‘on your desktop or notebook computer. vwwwbdmpublications.com | 49Jargon Buster We’ve kept the jargon down to a minimum in this guide, but if you come across something you don’t understand, take a look at this jargon busting guide to technical terms. ADSL ‘Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. It’s a means of connecting to the Internet through your telephone line. ‘Sometimes just called ‘DSL’ AVM, The Berlin-based telecommunications technology company that owns the FRITZ! brands. Broadband Wide bandwidth data transmission, that is, fast Internet as opposed to the older, dial-up services. DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications. It's a wireless standard used mostly for cable-free telephone systems. DECT Base Station: DECT phones connect wirelessly to a DECT Base Station, which has a cabled connection to the household or business phone line. Abase station can manage multiple DECT phones. Ethemet The format used for local cabled networks (LAN). Your router comes supplied with Ethernet cables and has ports for plugging them in. Extender A device that extends the range of a wireless network by creating a second entry point, which may, or may not, merge with the main one, FRITZ! ‘A series of brands owned by AVM. These include FRITZIBox (routers), FRITZIFon (telephones) and FRITZIWLAN (wireless devices). Guest Access ‘Ameans of allowing your guests and Visitors to use your internet connection, without giving them access to your network or your router settings. Hard Disk Drive A device used to store computer data, Portable Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) take their power from the device they're: connected to, but desktop HDDs need to be plugged into the mains. Interface ‘The means by which the user operates a device. The FRITZ!Box interface is accessed through a web browser. Internet ‘Aglobal system of interconnected computers and networks which use the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to link online devices Isp Internet Service Provider. The company ‘who you pay to give you Internet access at home or work. LAN Local Area Network. Devices that are connected to your router using Ethernet cables, are part of the LAN (ee also WLAN). UE: Long-Term Evolution, a standard used for wireless broadband mostly on mobile phones. An LTE router uses the ‘same technology, and needs a SIM card like a phone. Media Server ‘A Mecia Server allows you to keep ‘your media such as videos, photos and music on one device, and enjoy them with other devices over your network. ‘Mesh. ‘A means of combining two wireless ‘access points into one, so they use the ‘same settings and appear as a single network to devices that join it. ‘Modem Short for modulate-demodtulate, a adem converts data into a signal that canbe transferred over a phone line, and ‘does so in reverse for incoming data MyFRITZ! [Aerie avaliable to FRITZ1B0x ‘owners. Setting up @ MyFRITZ! account con your FRITZIBox gives access toa range of entra features, Network Attached Storage ‘A Network Attached Storage (NAS) rive lets you access stored data from any capable device connected to your network. You can plug a storage drive into your FRITZ!Box and network- attach it,CCCs Network Printer A printer that’s attached to the network rather than a single computer, so you can print from any device that's also connected to your network. Router ‘A device that manages and organises your home network devices, whether ‘they connect to the router using a cable (LAN), or wirelessly (WLAN). ‘Smartphone ‘A modern mobile phone that’s capable cf using the internet as well as making calls and sending/teceiving messages. Solid State Drive {A Solid State Drive (SSD) works in the same way as a Hard Disk Drive, but uses memory chips instead of magnetic platters, making it faster. SSID Service Set ID. Ina nutshell this is the ‘name’ of your wireless network, and ccan be changed using your router. Tablet ‘A device that's similar to a Smartphone, bbut without the telephony features (unless it has cellular capability), and with a bigger screen, Thumb Drive Also known asa flash ive, a Thum Drive isa small device for carrying ‘around data, You can plug one into your FRITZIBox to turn it into a network- attached storage (NAS) drive. UPnP Universal Plug and Play. A protocol used by digital media players for enjoying video, music, and pictures over your home network. URL Uniform Resource Locator. This is @ web address, used to access a web page on the Internet, and usually starts “www and ends in com’, or some other top-level domain USB Universal Serial Bus. A standard for connecting peripherals to computers, or ‘other devices, by means of a USB cable. VDSL Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line, It's another protocol for getting ‘on the Internet using your phone line, and is sometimes shortened to DSL. WAN Wide Area Network, another means of connecting your FRITZIBox to the Internet using a modem, or toa wider network. Wi-Fi ‘A group of backwards-compatible radio technologies used to connect peripherals to a network wirelessly. WLAN Wireless Local Area Network. Your network of wireless devices, as ‘opposed to devices connected with a cable (see LAN). WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup, an easier way of connecting wireless devices to yyour router. 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