Overview

Overview

In this overview you receive information on the connections, ports and lines, and convenience functions configured on your FRITZ!Box. A listing of the devices integrated in your system round out the detailed information.

Information on Your FRITZ!Box

In the upper area of the window the FRITZ!Box is displayed with its complete product name (where relevant, with your internet provider's identifier) the currently installed FRITZ!OS version, and its current energy consumption.

  • If you assigned an individual name for your FRITZ!Box under "Home Network / FRITZ!Box Name", this name will be displayed here.
  • If a new version of FRITZ!OS is available for your FRITZ!Box on the AVM Update Server, you can start installation of the FRITZ!OS update from here by clicking the "The latest FRITZ!OS is not installed: Update?" link.
  • If you have not yet enabled password protection for the FRITZ!Box, you can set it up here by clicking the "Set password" link.

Notification about Important Events

The FRITZ!Box informs you in many ways about events that are important for the security and correct functioning of your home network. On the "Overview" page you receive notifications as a red, linked text in the header. The window that opens when you click on the notification displays details about the event and offers solutions to associated problems. On the "Notification about Important Events" help page you receive more detailed information.

Connections

Information on your FRITZ!Box's connections is displayed here. By clicking the entries you can jump from here to the corresponding menus and configure settings there.

  • The "Internet" entry shows the status information of your Internet connection.
  • If IPv6 support is enabled for the FRITZ!Box, the connection to the IPv6 Internet will be shown with its own additional entry.
  • If remote access over VPN is configured, the "Remote access (VPN)" entry shows the status information "not established", "establishing" and "established".

Interfaces

This area shows which of the FRITZ!Box ports and lines are ready for operation and which are in use.

DSL Shows the condition of the DSL connection and the current DSL data rate
LAN Indicates whether and at which LAN port a computer is connected
Wireless
  • Indicates whether a computer is connected with the FRITZ!Box via wireless LAN and whether the connection is secure (encrypted) or insecure (non-encrypted)
  • Shows the name of the wireless network
USB Indicates which USB devices are connected to the FRITZ!Box's port for USB devices. USB storage media can be removed safely from here.

 

Home Network

The "Home Network" area shows all active devices currently connected with the FRITZ!Box. These include all wireless, LAN, powerline, DECT, Smart Home and USB devices.

  • Click "more ..." to open the detailed home network overview of the FRITZ!Box.
  • Clicking a connected network device opens the user interface of this device (if it has a user interface) in a new tab.

Convenience Features

Here you see all convenience features enabled in your FRITZ!Box, for instance:

  • configured wireless and LAN guest accesses
  • enabled wireless LAN schedule
  • configured night service
  • FRITZ!Box services
  • enabled parental controls
  • enabled push services

Enabled convenience functions can be accessed with the click of a mouse. Additional convenience features can be enabled in the FRITZ!Box menus.

Standard View and Advanced View of the FRITZ!Box User Interface

Notifications about Important Events