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The Fritz!Box 3490 sits right in the middle of AVM's product line?up, as a triple-stream 3x3 MIMO router, with a built-in ADSL/VDSL modem. It lacks the digital telephony features of the more expensive 7490 model , but pretty much everything else is the sa...

Put it all together and the AVM Fritz!Box 3490 is a very strong offering. Great performance, great software, a good range of features and plenty of room for expansion with external storage. A winning combination...
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The new mainstream Fritz!Box 3490 offers the guts of the company's top-end 7490 router, including 3x3 MIMO 802.11ac wireless, but without the built-in hardware to manage DECT or analogue telephony, which brings down the unit's cost considerably. It costs...

Fast wireless performance at short and long range, Relatively affordable compared with previous Fritz!Box models, Full, featured and intuitive software...

Once, innovative hardware design beginning to look bland, Only four ethernet ports, a potential problem for cable users, Old, fashioned look to software...

The 3490 performs brilliantly and costs less than many of AVM's previous routers, while still offering the same great software. That makes it a winner, in our book...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated: 2015-10-09 06:30:35
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The new mainstream Fritz!Box 3490 offers the guts of the company's top-end 7490 router, including 3x3 MIMO 802.11ac wireless, but without the built-in hardware to manage DECT or analogue telephony, which brings down the unit's cost considerably. It costs...

Fast wireless performance at short and long range, Relatively affordable compared with previous Fritz!Box models, Fullfeatured and intuitive software...

Onceinnovative hardware design beginning to look bland, Only four ethernet ports, a potential problem for cable users, Oldfashioned look to software...

The 3490 performs brilliantly and costs less than many of AVM's previous routers, while still offering the same great software. That makes it a winner, in our book...
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What is the AVM FRITZ!Box 3490? This is AVM's long-awaited stripped-down version of the FRITZ!Box 7490. In an increasingly smartphone-obsessed world, it ditches the DECT base station and fixed-line telephony, but still brings an integrated VDSL2 modem, 80...

Wi-Fi betters ISP-supplied AC routers, Feature packed, Well priced...

Cheaper AC1900 routers are far faster, Overly complex UI, Silly default settings...

The FRITZ!Box 3490 is neat, faster than ISP-supplied routers (especially at range) and packs a huge feature set. The problem is that it remains overly complex to set up and there are faster dedicated routers available at a similar price point. It's a so...
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uk.hardware.info Updated: 2017-09-30 01:11:51
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In the summer of 2012 we tested the Netgear R6300, the first ever 802.11ac router that reached our test lab. Now, 4 years later, we see that the phenomenon 802.11ac router is still in full swing. In order to find out what your options are if you're look...

Are you looking for an 802.11ac router? Then you'll be able to choose from a plethora of routers, since pretty much all 802.11ac models that have been released since 2012, are still readily available. This does imply that there hasn't been a lot of chan...
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Also see: Best Tech Deals There are two types of routers, those with built-in modems and those without. Although we still call them wireless routers, there's no need as there aren't any 'wired' routers any more: all have built-in Wi-Fi. That's what makes...
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One of the most common annoyances of modern man is a poorly functioning WiFi connection. Especially now that more and more devices are becoming connected and it only gets busier in the ether, it can do no harm to take a good look at your current equipment...
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With this year's CES almost over the time has come for us to sit down and think about all the new devices and technologies we saw from virtually every single section/area in the electronics industry/market. Unfortunately however although 2016 will see sev...

Overall Build Quality, Wireless Performance), AC1750 Technology (Concurrent 802.11n & 802.11ac), Compatible With All Line Types (Annex A/B), Available Features (Repeater/NAS Server/Media Server), Overwhelming Number Of Settings, Android & iOS App, 4 Gigab...

No Dedicated WAN Port (LAN 1 can be used for that)...

The FRITZ!Box 7490 AC1750 modem router may not have been the fastest AC model to ever make it through our lab but it's overall performance coupled with its features and extensive web interface were more than enough for us to like it. Personall...
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