FRITZ 6490 Cable Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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Configuring Phones and Other Terminal Devices in the FRITZ!Box

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41

•

Numbers for incoming calls:

Should the terminal device ring for every call (telephone)

or pick up (fax machine, answering machine)? Or only for

calls to previously defined telephone numbers?

Configuring Terminal Devices

1.

Open the FRITZ!Box user interface; see

page 25

.

2.

Select “Telephony / Telephony Devices”.

3.

Click “Configure New Device”.

To change the settings of a device that has already been

configured, click the

button.

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Password Protection: Using FRITZ!Box Safely

11

Password Protection: Using FRITZ!Box Safely

Password protection for access to the user interface is a security fea-

ture of your FRITZ!Box. This section describes how to use a password

for the FRITZ!Box user interface and why you should use password

protection.

For additional security information on using the FRITZ!Box, see the

AVM website at

en.avm.de/guide/security

.

11.1

Login with Password: FRITZ!Box Procedures

The FRITZ!Box offers two ways to configure password protec-

tion:

•

FRITZ!Box password

•

FRITZ!Box user

The two login methods have the following properties:

For instructions on configuring the FRITZ!Box password, see

the section

Using a FRITZ!Box Password

from

page 43

.

For instructions on configuring FRITZ!Box users, see the sec-

tion

Using FRITZ!Box Users

from

page 45

.

Property

FRITZ!Box password

FRITZ!Box user

Password

There is a password needed to

open the FRITZ!Box user inter-

face.

There are user accounts.

Every FRITZ!Box user receives

her or his own password for

opening the user interface.

Scope of access

With the FRITZ!Box password,

access to all contents and set-

tings in the FRITZ!Box is per-

mitted.

For each FRITZ!Box user, in the

user account you define which

contents and settings of the

FRITZ!Box the given user is al-

lowed to access.

Kind of access

Login to the user interface is

permitted from devices located

in the home network of the

FRITZ!Box.

A FRITZ!Box user can also log

in to the FRITZ!Box user inter-

face—with the appropriate us-

er rights—from the Internet.

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Using a FRITZ!Box Password

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Password Tips

•

Select a password with at least eight characters, which

includes capitals and lower-case letters as well as nu-

merals and special characters.

See “Characters for Passwords” in the Help of the

FRITZ!Box user interface for more information about

which characters you’re allowed to use.

•

Be sure to keep your passwords in a safe place!

–

Use the “Forgot password” push service, see

Push

Services: Notification Services of the FRITZ!Box

from

page 31

. When you have forgotten a password, the

FRITZ!Box sends you an access link to the e-mail ad-

dress you specified. You can assign a new the pass-

word using this link. In this case the settings of your

FRITZ!Box remain intact.

–

Otherwise—if you lose your FRITZ!Box password—you

will have to restore the factory settings to the

FRITZ!Box and reconfigure all of the personal settings

for your Internet connection, your telephone system

and your home network; see

page 52

.

•

Recommendations for secure passwords (keys) are also

available on the

Federal Office for Information Security

(Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik)

website.

11.2

Using a FRITZ!Box Password

The basic method of logging in to the FRITZ!Box user interface

is to enter the FRITZ!Box password. With this password all us-

ers can open the user interface and access all of the

FRITZ!Box’s contents and settings.

Configuring the FRITZ!Box Password

1.

In the FRITZ!Box user interface, open the “System /

FRITZ!Box Users / Login to Home Network” menu.

2.

Select the option “Login with the FRITZ!Box password”.

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Using a FRITZ!Box Password

3.

In the “FRITZ!Box password” field, enter the password

you specified.

For more information on the characters you may use for

the password, see the Help in the FRITZ!Box user inter-

face.

4.

Save your changes by clicking “Apply”.

You will be directed to the welcome screen of your

FRITZ!Box.

5.

Enter your user name to log in to the user interface of

your FRITZ!Box.

Password protection is enabled in your FRITZ!Box.

Quick Access to the Login Data

As soon as you have configured the FRITZ!Box password, the

upper navigation bar of the FRITZ!Box user interface will dis-

play the entry “Logged in”.

Click the blue triangle to control basic functions of your

FRITZ!Box log in:

•

Change Password

Using the “Change password” entry you can change the

FRITZ!Box password.

With the FRITZ!Box password it is not possible to access the

FRITZ!Box from the Internet. For users who require access to

the FRITZ!Box via Internet, you must also set up an account

as a FRITZ!Box user; see

page 45

.

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Using FRITZ!Box Users

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Logging Off

Click “Log Off” here to leave the FRITZ!Box user inter-

face.

Log off of the FRITZ!Box user interface before you surf the

web with your browser. If you do not click on the

FRITZ!Box user interface for a period of longer than sixty

minutes, you will be logged off automatically.

11.3

Using FRITZ!Box Users

If you would like to access your FRITZ!Box from the Internet,

you have to configure password-protected login with

FRITZ!Box user accounts. Also use this login method if multi-

ple users with different rights are to have access to the

FRITZ!Box.

A FRITZ!Box user opens the user interface of the FRITZ!Box by

entering her or his personal password. There she or he can

view and change those contents or settings for which she or

he has been granted access rights.

Configuring FRITZ!Box Users

You can set up as many as 18 user accounts in the FRITZ!Box.

Before you can select the “Login with FRITZ!Box user name

and password” method in the “System / FRITZ!Box Users /

Login to Home Network” menu, you have to set up a FRITZ!Box

user with the right to access the “FRITZ!Box Settings”.

Creating a FRITZ!Box User with the Right to Access Settings

1.

In the FRITZ!Box user interface, open the “System /

FRITZ!Box Users / User” menu.

2.

Click the “Add User” button.

3.

Enter a name, a valid e-mail address and a password for

the new user.

For more information on the characters you may use for

the password, see the Help in the FRITZ!Box user inter-

face.

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