Introduction
The new mainstream Fritz!Box 3490 offers the guts of the company’s top-end 7490 router, including 3×3 MIMO 802.11ac wireless, but without the built-in hardware to manage DECT or analogue telephony, which brings down the unit’s cost considerably. It costs around £130 (US$157, AU$192), considerably less than many top-end 802.11ac routers.
The 3490 has a built-in a modem that supports ADSL and VDSL with the same vectoring technology that allows for faster fibre connections. Of course, as with just about any other router, it works fine with cable connections too. There are two USB 3.0 ports, one at the side and one at the rear, with four gigabit ethernet ports at the back, along with a DSL connector.
Sitting next to the 7490, it would be impossible to tell the two apart, since both sport a red and silver chassis, and internal antennas with fins on the top to boost the signal. Aside from the lack of special DECT hardware, the 3490 is similar on the inside too. It has the same 800MHz dual-core processor and comes with 128MB of memory.
But as with any AVM router, the real selling point …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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