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Your media hub in just a few steps

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FRITZ!Box als Medienzentrale

Whether stored movies, vacation photos, or music – your FRITZ!Box enables you to conveniently transfer content to the right device within your home network. This might, for example, be a TV, wireless radio, PC, tablet, or smartphone. Also: Once set up, your FRITZ!Fon is the perfect remote control.

If you've got your FRITZ!Box media server set up already, our FRITZ! Clip has some interesting tips in store for you. For example, did you know you can drag and drop files onto FRITZ!NAS? Check out the video here.

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Quick and easy to set up

1. All your data on one storage device
Store all the data you want to use across the home network or share with friends on a storage medium connected to the USB port of the FRITZ!Box.

2. Activate the media server

Activate the FRITZ!Box media server via the user interface (http://fritz.box). Activate one-off indexing of your media files.

3. Enjoy your multimedia

Thanks to the media server, you can now access your media files from any device in the home – using common standards such as UPnP and DLNA and without the need for complex installation.

FRITZ! Clip – Use your FRITZ!Box as a media server

This FRITZ! Clip shows you how easy it is to set up your FRITZ!Box as a media server for photos, videos and music.

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