Germany
FRITZ! closes its own arithmetic and counts no Ethernet sockets
These listings reach the site as FRITZ!, as FRITZ without the exclamation mark, and as AVM, so a search for any one of the three finds only part of the range. The hardware behind them is consistent: a DSL router with a telephone exchange in it, mesh and repeater nodes, and powerline sets.
The router quotes up to 2.4 Gbit/s and publishes 1800 Mbit/s at 5 GHz and 600 Mbit/s at 2.4 GHz beneath it, which is exactly that. The repeater quotes 3000 and publishes 2400 plus 600. Nothing is rounded in the maker’s favour, and the parts and the sum sit on the same page — which almost nothing else on these shelves manages.
The router counts not one Ethernet socket, although a 1.5 m network cable is listed in the box, and implies a USB socket through a media server function without counting it or dating it. The mesh set runs on four bullets and publishes neither bands, nor sockets, nor an area. The older powerline set names a Fast Ethernet socket without rating it, and neither powerline listing names the standard it runs on.
Wi-Fi 6 · 2.4 Gbit/s stated, exactly 1800 plus 600 · DSL modem built in · VoIP and DECT · not one Ethernet socket counted
The only router here with a modem and a telephone exchange inside it, and the only one whose headline figure is exactly the sum of the two rates printed beneath it.
Best for: A household on a DSL line that wants the modem, the telephony and the radios in one box rather than three.
≈ 150 €
up to 1200 Mbit/s over the mains · Wi-Fi 5 access point at 866 plus 400 Mbit/s · three gigabit sockets across two units · WPS and WPA2 · no standard named
A two-unit set pairing a wireless adapter with a wired one, whose title, first bullet and second bullet each attach a rate to a different thing.
Best for: A house where the far room needs wireless and the room next to it needs two cables, and where a FRITZ!Box is already the router.
≈ 165 €
Wi-Fi 6 · 3000 Mbit/s stated, exactly 2400 plus 600 · cross-band repeating · 160 MHz channels · one Gigabit socket · mesh
A Wi-Fi 6 repeater whose headline figure is exactly the sum of its two published band rates, and whose product name carries a number the page never explains.
Best for: A household already running the maker’s own router that wants a mesh node with a Gigabit socket and no ambiguity about the arithmetic.
≈ 83 €
Wi-Fi 6 · up to 3000 Mbit/s stated · two units · seven of eleven lines unpublished · made in Europe
A two-piece set from a well-known European maker whose listing runs on four bullets: a generation, a figure, an installation promise and a sentence about security.
Best for: A buyer who already trusts the maker and wants a mesh pair that will sit behind an existing provider box without an argument.
≈ 155 €
Every price named in a summary was read on the date that review carries. What a shop asks today is shown beside the product, and it moves.
