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FRITZ! sums its band rates exactly — for European homes

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The FRITZ! units here

A FRITZ!Box 7530 AX DSL router with telephony, a two-piece Mesh Set 1600, a FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX and a FRITZ!Powerline 1260 set. All four are sold on the European Amazon stores; none has an Amazon.com listing.

Arithmetic that adds up

The router’s 2.4 Gbit/s is exactly 1,800 plus 600 Mbit/s, and the repeater’s 3,000 Mbit/s is exactly 2,400 plus 600 — the only units on their shelves whose headline figure is the plain sum of the band rates printed beneath it. The router also carries a DSL modem, VoIP and a DECT base for cordless phones, which nothing else on the router shelf does.

Built for European lines and outlets

A DSL modem for European lines, DECT for European phones and powerline adapters for European outlets: these are FRITZ!‘s strengths at home and the reasons they do not cross the Atlantic. For an American home, the routers, mesh sets and powerline kits sold on Amazon.com on the same shelves are the ones to compare.

Every FRITZ! unit reviewed here

What each FRITZ! review concluded

  • FRITZ!Box 7530 AX — A telephone exchange, a modem and a Wi-Fi 6 router in one case, with the radio arithmetic stated honestly and the wired sockets left uncounted.
  • FRITZ!Powerline 1260 set — A capable two-part set whose rates are scattered across three lines and whose powerline standard is never named.
  • FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX — Clean arithmetic, a named repeating mechanism and a full box list, against a product name that contradicts its own figure.
  • FRITZ! Mesh Set 1600 — A short listing from a maker whose catalog holds the answers this page does not.