ou can simply use a network cable or wireless LAN (WiFi) to connect an IP camera (network camera) to your FRITZ!Box. Then you can easily follow what is happening in front of the camera with a web browser or an app, either in the home network or via the internet when you are away from […]

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Using a NAS system in the FRITZ!Box home network

You can simply use a network cable to connect a NAS (Network Attached Storage) system to your FRITZ!Box, making it available to the entire home network as well as other users in the internet. Since the NAS system itself makes data stored on it available, you do not have to configure any specific settings for

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Setting up wireless guest access in the FRITZ!Box

The FRITZ!Box’s wireless guest access offers your guests separate internet access. Devices in the guest network are denied access to devices in the home network. For this purpose, the FRITZ!Box provides an additional wireless network (WiFi) with its own security settings and a captive portal, if needed. You can either offer encrypted or unencrypted guest

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Setting up the FRITZ!Box as a Mesh Repeater

Use wireless LAN or a network cable to integrate the FRITZ!Box as a Mesh Repeater into the Mesh of your FRITZ!Box with internet access (Mesh Master) to easily and efficiently increase the wireless range of your home network. The Mesh Repeater automatically adopts all of the wireless settings from the Mesh Master and creates an additional wireless network (WiFi) that enables your devices

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Prioritizing internet access for important network applications and devices

In the FRITZ!Box you can define which network devices and applications are to be treated with high priority or low priority when they access the internet. This way you can ensure optimal reaction times for online games even if peer-to-peer services are using the internet connection at the same time. This type of prioritization of

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DLNA and the FRITZ!Box Media Server

The FRITZ!Box Media Server (UPnP AV server) provides all of its functions in accordance with the DLNA guidelines. However, it is not officially DLNA certified. Whether AVM shall seek DLNA certification for the FRITZ!Box, and, if so, when, has not yet been decided. Note:The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is an association of computer, smartphone, and consumer

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Setting up a USB printer connected to the FRITZ!Box

In the home network you can either use a USB printer connected to the FRITZ!Box as a network printer, or use it with the USB remote connection software. Which operating mode is preferable depends on your requirements and the USB printer you are using. Setting up a printer as a network printer Configure the USB printer connected

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Configuring a USB storage device connected to FRITZ!Box

The FRITZ!Box allows you to use USB storage devices connected to it as a central storage location in the home network (“Storage (NAS)”). Then all of the computers, smartphones, and other devices connected to the FRITZ!Box can easily access your files with a web browser or using the Server Message Block protocol (SMB), for example

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Configuring the integrated fax function in the FRITZ!Box

With the FRITZ!Box you can also send and receive faxes without an external fax machine. The FRITZ!Box receives the faxes and forwards them as PDF files named after the reception date and time via email and/or saves them on a USB storage device in the folder “FRITZ\faxbox”. When sending faxes, you enter the text in

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