"Philippe Deleye" <Philippe.Deleye@blablabla.advalvas.be> wrote in message
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> "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakemeout@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>> Just looking at the Fritz 7270 which is available in Germany and a few
> other
>> (annex B) countries. I know it is annex B and therefore cannot be used
> for
>> DSL in UK, but just wondering if it is otherwise suitable for use in the
> UK.
>> It looks really good as it has inbuilt DECT and answerphone, fax
>> capabilities, and media server if you hang a hard drive on it. Oh and I
>> forgot VPN (not sure if client or server) which I wanted to start to make
>> use of.
>>
>> I notice a Danish one on Ebay at the moment. Even more on ebay.de
> although
>> these look like they might be locked to the German ISP 1&1
>>
>> Anybody know anything about this? I can deal with the German interface
> OK,
>> especially with all those features. I even saw one site claiming you
> could
>> reflash to Annex A, although I find this hard to believe.
>
> * Yes, the 7270 is suitable for use in the UK, if you can install behind a
> ADSL modem - or for Cable internet
> * VPN is server. With the VPN client software on remote PC's you connect
> on
> your home network
> * German boxes are not locked for 1&1, but "branded" (means a settings are
> pre-configured. However, yoy can "easily" chnage the branding back to
> "AVM"
> to ge the full list of options
> * German boxes can be reflased to Annex A, but tricky operations, and no
> support form AVM (guatantee void)
>
> Philippe

Cheers Philippe, somehow knew you'd know!