By Alex Cox
Whatever you might think about the slightly startling name, the latest FRITZ!Box (and we do insist on replicating that styling correctly because, come on, it’s hilarious) does more than its jaunty logo and wacky, dated styling might suggest.
In fact, it seems it’s absolutely insistent on doing everything it possibly can. It routes wireless traffic, it routes wired traffic, it routes DSL and analogue phone lines, it manages DECT phones, printers, network storage.
Plug in a 4G dongle and it’ll even provide fallback connectivity for your network in case of a main connection outage. You are entirely unlikely to need at least half of its features, but if you’re craving a router with flexibility you’ve definitely found it.
The real question, though, is do we want this in our house? Does that flexibility warrant the price? Are we really prepared for visitors to ask what a FRITZ!Box does?
Those questions are answered not just by the FRITZ!Box 7590’s wide range of almost enterprise-level features, but by the fact that it almost keeps pace with similarly-priced competitors in terms of performance and power.
Price and availability
The German-made FRITZ!Box 7590 is, as you might expect, widely available across Europe, coming in at somewhere around £265. …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac