• thisNotMyName@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    What’s wrong with good 'ol reliable Fritzbox? Never had a single problem with one and get’s the job done

    • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      don’t like them. the two i ever used had regular crashes and wifi-outages. not to mention the laughable range. i’m cool with people using them, i would just never buy one.

      • mholiv@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        100% this. People are ok with them because it’s all they know. Once you use higher quality networking equipment it’s painful to go back.

          • mholiv@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago
            1. Your range is much lower than it should be.

            2. If multiple people use the Wi-Fi at the same time the speed is lower than it should be compared to taking your total speed and dividing by users.

            3. You are missing access to some settings that you should have access to. On newer Fritzboxes you can’t even set port forwarding at all.

            • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              1 year ago

              Excuse me but this a load of. Range is just fine, as is speed -unless you’re using a 7581 vDSL model, those were crash-prone and wifi broke often. I have and had several models and that was the only one ever causing trouble. And port forwarding is still there,at least on a 7990 with the latest firmware update.

              • mholiv@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                1 year ago

                If you are happy with the range stick with it. 🤷‍♀️

                As for port forwarding it was not an option with the fritzbox provided by vodaphone to me. Maybe because it was DS-Lite stack only.

                • PDBaer@feddit.de
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  0
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  No that’s because vodafone puts their own firmware version on it with limited settings. If you get the same fritzbox with the default firmware from AVM then you have port forwarding.

                • vinhill@feddit.de
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  0
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  I had a router from 1&1 where they locked down the firmware to exclude many settings. Might be a similar case with Vodafone.