Hello we're gonna take a look at the Fritz!Box 7590 this has a very
glossy finish to it, you can see my reflection there, this is a new styling
but it retains the AVM white and red color scheme. It's lost the Jetsons look
to it and I think it looks pretty cool now. It's got plenty of airflow at the
bottom and it stands up a little bit to allow the air to go through. On the
bottom is the usual sticker showing you the access keys, it's got this lovely new
curved design, you've got a phone plug there which you probably wouldn't use in
the UK, round the back huge number of ports: DSL port, WAN port, you can see
various phone ports for use with fax lines things like that, you've then got
Gigabit LAN ports, and you've also got a USB 3 port. There is a second USB 3 port
around the other side so this thing has a ton of features that makes use of all
of these different ports. Along with the box you get various cables to get this
set up with; phone cables, Ethernet cables, splitters, do be aware though that this
particular unit may come with an international plug so you may need an
adapter network fine with that for me. Setup was very easy, this uses the
excellent Fritz!OS, it's just a matter of following the instructions, clicking
through next next next, you'll need to select the type of connection you've got
so I'm using this on Virgin so I'm not using this directly, you put in your
upstream and downstream and eventually you will be ready to set up your phone's.
This is a full phone system, setting up phones was very easy because this is
a DECT base station so if you already got phones you simply follow the
instructions, you'll need to type in a special pin code on your phone that will
connect your existing handset to the device and then any calls can be routed
to your existing phones from the Fritz!Box. There are a huge number of options, it
can have numbers for incoming, numbers for outgoing and if you want to
you can even use this with your mobile so you take the phone you've just
connected, typing a special codes to authorized the mobile via the app and
your mobile phone is now part of the same phone system as your existing DECT phones
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Answering on the mobile stops the call ringing through on the DECT phone.
So this is just a quick overview of the Fritz!OS that I've now logged into and
you get a really nice dashboard so I've got this set up for both internet and
the telephony. I've got two numbers enabled: one of them is a SIP number, one
of them is a fixed line. Anything in blue you can click on get more information or
go to different screens and this just gives a really nice overview, so straight
when we log in we can see the IP address, we can see the two telephone numbers set
up, we can see we've had one call today, who calls were off, if the number isn't
in the address book we can add it to the address book just by pressing this
and we say create is new or you can add to an existing contact and when
we come back to the screen now you see it's listed as the name that we've just
entered. So you've got the date and time of call, it's full telephone system
it can also act as an answering machine and unfortunately when you press play it
downloads the file it's and just open it but let's have a quick listen "This is a
quick test of the Fritz!Box answering machine" Down here you can see it's picked up
that I'm using Powerline Adapters on my network and you've got telephone book,
four contacts, you've got NAS because there's a inbuilt NAS on this, and you've
also got Fritz!Box services in case you want to access this remotely.
Skipping over to to the internet options you've got the connection settings where
you can set your upstream and downstream, you can say how you want it to connect
so because I'm using Virgin I'm connecting this to an external modem and
router but you can connect it straight to a DSL line, it supports IPv6, you've
got access to your home network and external access as well so you can
access this remotely if you want to. Telephony just gives you the full list
of what's going on, so you got all calls, when they are, you've got outgoing calls,
incoming calls, any missed calls, so answer machine you can set that up,
you can say settings and we can adjust it from five seconds to accept immediately
depending on what you want, you've got recorded message, you've got all sorts of
options. A very nice feature is you can schedule when the answering machine is
working and what kind of operation it is doing so you can either record the
message greeting ago and they totally to you and you can set when that happens.
It's got inbuilt telephone books you've got alarm clocks it'll ring your phone
it can also act as an integrated FAX function if you haven't so anyone that
wants to send you a fax you can do so by the Fritz!Box you can receive those.
You've got call handling so you can block certain numbers, so some of this
will require you to have things like caller identity on your line, that's
not always provided but most places will provide it now if you ask them to and
you've got very dialing rules, carry prefixes so you can set prefixes before
you dial out. Telephone devices you can see a list of all the devices that
you've got hooked up to this so we've got the answering machine, we've got a
DECT handset, we've got the app that's being used, we've got various mobiles and
we've got a normal telephone also hooked up. And under telephone numbers you can
manage the telephone numbers that you have so as you can see here we've got an
Internet number and landline number. As you'd expect from home network overview
you get exactly that, an overview, you've got various settings that you can adjust
and checkout, you can see IP addresses and adjust various settings. Smart Home section
is a little bit misleading as I think it's only AVM Fritz branded
smart devices, I've got a ton of smart devices and when I try and register them
nothing happens it just it doesn't pick them up so I think that's for use with
other products that maybe aren't available in the UK at this time.
In terms of the wireless menu you've got a ton of information about the network
whether it you want the 2.4 or 5, both, whether you want to change
the name of those totally up to you, you can change the channel, I've got it set
to automatically, but there is a ton of information about the wireless
environments as well it scans the wireless environment so this
is the 2.4 but we can switch to the 5 gigahertz, gives you information about
what's going on, tons of diagrams and here's all the
various Wi-Fi networks near me. To demo the Wi-Fi capabilities I'm gonna go for
a little walk. The Fritz!Box is the green spiked graph there, I've not had any
problems with the Wi-Fi at all so here we're in a different room in that room
also is the Virgin router which I've got running so you'd expect that to be as
powerful if we go upstairs you can see we now stood it over the Virgin router
and that's why it's a little bit more powerful than the Fritz!Box, if we go and
stand over the Fritz!Box though you can
see that starts to increase if we change the
scanner from the 2.4 gigahertz to the 5 gigahertz network you see the Fritz!Box
is way ahead of the Virgin Super Hub 3, we'll now go and stand over the SuperHub
you can see the Fritz!Box is still mighty powerful.
Really nice you can set this, again a bit like telephone system, you can set this to work on a
schedule so if you want to shut it down after a certain time maybe out of work
hours you can do so there's also options for guest access and you can use this as
either an access point or a repeater
So overall AVM have done another fantastic
job with this, I love the redesign it looks loads better and once again the
Fritz!OS is hugely feature packed, this is a very feature-rich device, as such is
quite an expensive device, it's brilliant if you are in the
market for a home office solution that allows you to manage various networks
various phone lines, home line, work line all that kind of stuff. The integration
with the apps is superb and this offers just such a huge range of features it's
not for the faint-hearted and if you are just looking for a simple router this
probably isn't the one for you, but if you're looking for something that
has any massive range of options as well as a phone system built in this is
definitely worth checking out. I hope you found this short of useful, thanks for
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