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FRITZ!Box 7590 Service
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Setting up the FRITZ!Box for use with another router
Assigning devices to the access profile "Unrestricted"
1 Setting up the FRITZ!Box as an IP client (recommended)
- Set up the FRITZ!Box as an IP client if you want to easily integrate the FRITZ!Box into an existing network. When used as an IP client,
- the firewall of the FRITZ!Box is disabled.
- computers, smartphones, and other devices connected to the FRITZ!Box still obtain their IP settings from the existing router.
- all devices have unrestricted access to the internet and all other devices, regardless of whether they are connected to the FRITZ!Box or the other router.
- the functions parental controls and guest access are not available.
2 Setting up the FRITZ!Box as a cascaded router
- Set up the FRITZ!Box as a cascaded router if the FRITZ!Box should make its own network available that is separate from the other router. When used as a cascaded router,
- the firewall of the FRITZ!Box is enabled.
- computers, smartphones, and other devices connected to the FRITZ!Box no longer obtain their IP settings from the other router. Instead, they obtain them from the FRITZ!Box.
- it is not possible to access devices connected to the FRITZ!Box from the internet or the other router's network.
- the parental controls and guest access functions are available.
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