Fritz!Box 7270 - ping Philippe

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.
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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

"Philippe Deleye" <Philippe.Deleye@blablabla.advalvas.be> wrote in message
news:47f7d1b8$0$2989$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> "Herman" <whitehouse.madhousetakemeout@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:ft64j3$ofr$1@aioe.org...
>> 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!