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Setting up FRITZ!Repeater in the FRITZ!Box home network

The FRITZ!Repeater adds an additional wireless access point to your home network quickly and easily. This way you will have ideal Wi-Fi reception and high-speed connections to the internet and home network, even when outside the Wi-Fi range of your FRITZ!Box.

There are several ways to connect the FRITZ!Repeater with your FRITZ!Box home network. Which connection type is best depends on your operational environment.

1 Connecting the FRITZ!Repeater with a FRITZ!Box via Wi-Fi

Connecting FRITZ!Repeater to the FRITZ!Box via Wi-Fi

A Wi-Fi connection to the FRITZ!Box makes sense if

  • you want to position the FRITZ!Repeater within the Wi-Fi range of the FRITZ!Box.
  • you want to integrate a device without Wi-Fi support, for example an IPTV receiver, into the home network via a LAN port on the FRITZ!Repeater.
  • it should be possible to reposition the FRITZ!Repeater quickly and easily if necessary.

Just follow these steps: Connecting FRITZ!Repeater with the FRITZ!Box via Wi-Fi

2 Connecting the FRITZ!Repeater with a FRITZ!Box via LAN

Connecting FRITZ!Repeater to the FRITZ!Box via LAN

A LAN connection to the FRITZ!Box makes sense if

  • you want to position the FRITZ!Repeater outside the Wi-Fi range of the FRITZ!Box.
  • it is possible to establish a LAN connection to the FRITZ!Box from where the FRITZ!Repeater is being used, for example using the cabling in your home.

Just follow these steps: Connecting the FRITZ!Repeater with the FRITZ!Box via LAN



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