Important Instructions for Wireless Guest Access

With the "Guest Access" function, FRITZ!Box offers a quick and simple way to make your existing connection available for your guests to share. For this your FRITZ!Box completely separates the guest access from your home network. This means guests can use the internet, but have no access to your private network, for instance to the contents of shared files or printers.

FRITZ!Box guest access offers various options that can grant you and your guests a high security standard:

  • Network key and encryption with a high security level (WPA2)
  • Option to "Restrict Internet applications: Only surfing and mail allowed"
  • Option: "Display captive portal with information on the provider of the guest access", and associated with this, the options
    • "Permit login with guest access only after consent to terms of use" and
    • After consent to the terms of use, route the wireless LAN users to the following website".
    • In addition, you can add a free text and image to the registration mask, like a company logo, for instance.
  • Option: "Send log of devices' login and logoff events by email (FRITZ!Box Push Service)".
  • Additional options available at "Internet / Filters / Guest Network":
    • Flexible time limits for guest access
    • Detailed filters for websites (URL blacklist/whitelist)
    • Filtering of websites
    • Individual adaptability of restrictions on internet applications
  • Time control: "Disconnect automatically after ..."
  • Option to allow or prevent "communication with each other"

Important Instructions

With a wireless guest access you provide your guests access to the internet via your connection. With the FRITZ!Box you have two options for this:

Private Wireless Guest Access

This password-protected guest access is suitable to offer your friends and acquaintances wireless LAN in your home. Assign a name and a network password to your wireless network and share these data with your guests.

Public Wi-Fi Hotspot

With this option you can offer an open wireless LAN. This may make sense in the public space of a business, café or medical practice, since it is not always easy to pass on a network key at such locations. Keep in mind that the data are transmitted in this public hotspot without encryption.

The FRITZ!Box is equipped with various possibilities for controlling, documenting and configuring your guest access, all of which can be optionally enabled. This includes the option to determine the terms of use for your wireless guest network and to limit the use of the wireless network. The terms of use can be conveyed on a captive portal. Each time the FRITZ!Box is restarted, the guest list is deleted, so that wireless guests must re-register and consent to the terms of use for your wireless guest access.