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Categories for Prioritization
Whenever Internet telephony is included in this
category, this application always has the highest
priority, even over other real-time applications.
Prioritized applications
This category is suitable for applications that require
a fast reaction time (for example, company access,
terminal applications, games).
For network applications prioritized in this cate-
gory, 90% of the FRITZ!Box's upload bandwidth is
available, as long as no application from the “Re-
al-time applications” category requires band-
width. The remaining 10% of the upload band-
width is available for applications that are prioriti-
zed in lower categories or not prioritized at all.
If multiple network applications are assigned to
the “Prioritized applications” category, then they
must share the available capacity.
Background applications
This category is suitable for applications that do not
require any high transmission speed and which are
not time-critical (for example, peer-to-peer services
or automatic updates).
Network applications assigned to this category
are always treated with the lowest priority when
the Internet connection is working at full capacity.
So whenever an application from a different cate-
gory or a non-prioritized application requires the
entire bandwidth, all background applications
must wait until bandwidth capacity becomes
available again.
If no other network applications are active, then
the background applications receive the entire
bandwidth.
Network applications and network devices are assigned to
the categories using rules.
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Categories for Prioritization
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In order to use prioritization, the Expert Mode must be en-
abled in the user interface of the FRITZ!Box.
1.
Start a web browser on your computer and enter
fritz.box
in the address field of the browser.
2.
Click “Expert Mode” in the System menu, enable the
setting “Show expert settings” and confirm this set-
ting by clicking “Apply”.
The “Prioritization” menu is located under “Internet”.
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More Functions
7
More Functions
This chapter introduces additional useful functions and features of the
FRITZ!Box.
7.1
Child Protection
The child protection feature in the FRITZ!Box allows you to
specify when and for how long individual computers or
Windows users may use the Internet. For instance, you can
define that your children are allowed to use the Internet
connection only on weekdays between 4:00 p.m. and
8:00 p.m., and then only for one hour.
Child protection is set in the “Internet / Child Protection”
menu of the FRITZ!Box.
Child protection can be set up for any computer, re-
gardless of the operating system used.
In the Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP
operating systems, child protection can be config-
ured for each user individually.
See the Online Help of the FRITZ!Box to set up child pro-
tection. The Online Help contains further comprehensive
information on the child protection feature.
7.2
Energy Monitor
The FRITZ!Box is extremely efficient in its energy use.
The individual modules of the FRITZ!Box adapt their ener-
gy consumption to the amount needed at any given time.
Modules that are not in use or being used far below their
capacity reduce their energy consumption accordingly.
For an overview of energy consumption open the
“System / Energy Monitor” menu.
The “Child Protection” menu is available only if you have
set up the Internet connection in the FRITZ!Box and estab-
lished an Internet connection. The menu is not available
if you have configured the FRITZ!Box as a DSL modem or
IP client.
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Energy Monitor
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The energy consumption is shown as a percentage. The
maximum power consumption value of the FRITZ!Box is
the amount of energy used when all functions are in oper-
ation.
The “Energy Monitor” page shows the following:
FRITZ!Box System Overall
This graph shows how much energy all of the
FRITZ!Box functions are using at the moment, and
how much they use in total on an average day. When
all functions and modules are working at capacity,
this value equals 100%. When the load is less, the
value is correspondingly lower.
FRITZ!Box Central Processor
The energy consumption of the CPU is displayed,
both the current value and the daily average. When
all functions and modules are working at capacity,
this value equals 100%. When the load is less, the
value is correspondingly lower.
The individual FRITZ!Box modules
For each module, this page displays the amount of
energy being consumed at the moment and the daily
average. When all functions and modules are work-
ing at capacity, this value equals 100%. When the
load is less, the value is correspondingly lower.
Statistics
Here three diagrams show how certain device param-
eters of the FRITZ!Box change depending on the ac-
tions performed with the FRITZ!Box. Interested users
can watch the how these changes are related over
time and observe how the FRITZ!Box is affected by si-
multaneously making telephone calls, surfing and
streaming data.
On the “Settings” tab, in the “System / Energy Monitor”
menu, you can disable individual, unneeded LAN ports
manually.
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Push Service E-mail
7.3
Push Service E-mail
With push service you can specify that the FRITZ!Box
sends you e-mail messages with status and consumption
data at regular intervals.
The e-mail contains a table with the overview of your
FRITZ!Box connections.
The call list is also sent as a file in csv format. The file can
then be opened and evaluated statistically with appropri-
ate software like a spreadsheet program.
The push service mail is set up in the “System / Push
Service” menu.
7.4
Night Service
In the FRITZ!Box you can set up night service for WLAN and
for the telephones connected to the FRITZ!Box.
Configure night service using the menu command
“System / Night Service”.
First define the period of time for which the night service
of the FRITZ!Box should be active. For instance, from
10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
The function must be enabled after you specify the set-
tings.
Configure the night service for wireless network
On the “WLAN” page you may turn off the wireless
network during the same period of time each day or
define individual schedules fpr each weekday

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