Great deal about AVM's products

I've heard a great deal about AVM's products and was very pleased when the good people at Snap Internet sent over a Fritz!Box WLAN 7340 router.

Its biggest drawbacks are lack of IPv6 support which I in effect want now that Snap is fully dual-stack and only a single gigabit Ethernet port - the built-in switch has four 100Mbps ports too.

Snap set up a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service for me to try out on the 7340, which has a DECT base station integrated. AVM makes a neat little Fritz!fon, as per below for it, with a colour screen and HD voice support.

Like the router, the phone system has nearly a ridiculous amount of features, like T38 fax, answering machine, email, web radio, podcast support and even RSS feeds. All of these are easily configured via the web admin interface however to be honest, I don't see myself using them.

The bevvy of features above

Ignoring the bevvy of features above, the voice service works just like a normal landline and that's specifically how it should be. Voice quality is good, the phone sets up the calls quickly and nobody can tell that you're using VoIP.

I've tried to contact AVM about getting the updated version to the 7340, the 7390; this adds 5.4GHz wireless support to the 2.4GHz one in the 7340 and as well four gigabit Ethernet ports instead of two in the older model. Unfortunately, AVM's media people don't seem to respond to emails, so we'll see when and if the 7390 arrives.