Password protection for the user interface of your FRITZ!WLAN Repeater is necessary to protect you from potential dangers in the internet.

If you do not enable password protection, external attacks on your FRITZ!WLAN Repeater may not be ruled out. For instance, it is possible that private data will be read and changed under your name. It could even happen that actions are triggered within the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater.

To preclude any such possibilities, we strongly recommend that you protect the user interface of your FRITZ!WLAN Repeater with a password.

Under adverse conditions it can happen that the improved security functions make it impossible for you to log on to the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater user interface. If a program running in the background, like a call monitor, for instance, constantly accesses the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater without a valid session ID, such access will end an active session. In practice you will experience that the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater requires you to log back in at regular intervals.

Make sure that all of the programs that access the FRITZ!WLAN Repeater are installed in their latest version and support session IDs. Out-of-date programs may have to be disabled until a new version is available.