In contrast to the "brand new" 7590, the "older" FritzBox 5490 has a direct input for an optical cable. This is practical in connection with a fibre optic connection, because you save the external converter, and thus several cables and an additional power supply unit.
I am currently using the successor to the FB 5490 --> 5590 and there is an entry in the FB knowledge base about it
https://avm.de/service/wissensdatenbank/dok/FRITZ-Box-5590-Fiber/76_FRITZ-Box-am-Mobilfunkanschluss-einrichten/
This may help to solve your problem.
I used the box for about 2 weeks with Sunrise before the contract expired. Therefore, I can only answer partially.
Plug in the Fritzbox, select Sunrise as provider, the rest is automatic. Well, almost, the first time I had to take the fibre optic plug in and out during operation (important, restarting was not enough) so that the box changed from 100 mbit to 1 gbit... No idea why
I could not try Sunrise TV
Adding VOIP accounts works
Hello Lemanonlinech
According to AVM, the new Fritzbox 5530 should be available at the end of January / beginning of February 2021. I don't know if it will also be available in Switzerland.
Here is a report from Chip.de
https://www.chip.de/news/Fuer-schnellste-Verbindungen-Neue-FritzBox-mit-Glasfaser-ab-sofort-vorbestellbar_183122923.html
I sold the product, but regarding AC cables, the easiest thing to do is to buy a generic cable (with adjustable volt count and adapter variants), that will definitely work. E.g. this one: Goobay 3 V - 12 V Universal Power Supply 1.5A
Search init7 on Twitter, they post speed tests of their customers every now and then. Off the top of my head, it should be around 900Mbit/s up and down. Depending on many factors, of course... I myself have this Fritzbox with a 1GBit/s symmetrical line and am very satisfied!
I have it in operation with Wingo and fibre optics. Everything runs without configuration. I assume that since M-Budget is also Swisscom, this will also work.
You can't chain it like that. UPC would have to provide you with the signal via fibre optics. As far as I know, you can only get gigabit internet via their cable network.
First download the latest firmware from http://download.avm.de/fritzbox/fritzbox-5490/other/fritz.os/ and then install it on the box.
Under the Fitzbox settings in (activate Expert mode) --> Internet --> Access data --> Provider: iWay Fiber --> Access type: iWay Fiber CH DHCP (VLAN10)
Wingo works for me with the access type: iWay Fiber
It is also important that you use the correct fibre optic cable for the box.
That would theoretically work, but why? Then a cheap FritzBox 7490 without an integrated fibre-optic connection would also do. Another solution would be to install the 5490 in the fuse box and then connect a Fritz repeater for WLAN via Ethernet.
I use a 7490 together with the TP-Link MC220L. This even has the advantage that the 7490 is supplied with newer firmware versions earlier.
I bought the following cable:
Lightwin LWL Simplex Patch Cable (10m, SC/LC-APC, 9/125µm, OS2)
Lightwin LWL Simplex Patch Cable (10m, SC/LC-APC, 9/125µm, OS2)
Even though I didn't need it in the end, it fit.
SUNRISE now supports AVM modems for DSL & FIBER
Good day - as I see it, a dogma change has taken place at SUNRISE - a total of 6 modems are now supported - (clearly) the SUNRISE Internet Boxes (DSL & Fiber) - as well as the Fritzboxes 7390/ 7490 / 7590 and the Fiber 5490 ! -
So the whole thing should work perfectly (I'm looking forward to November - then we'll also have FTTH with our own OTO box - HURRA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the link for SUNRISE support: https://www.sunrise.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/mobile/mobile-einrichten/hardware-support.html?seite=devices/modem/modems
As far as I know, there are two ways to connect a telephone to the Fritzbox. Either plug it into the back of the router or connect it via DECT. In both cases, the device must be searched for and then connected. In the first case, it is often still a question of old, very well wireless, radio telephones from the time before Voip telephony, which, however, can still be used, just by connecting them to the back of the router. (The "modern" DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications), on the other hand, are integrated wirelessly into the network without being connected to the router in any way. The base is only plugged into a socket somewhere for the purpose of charging the phone. Now the question is what exactly is not working for you? The establishment of a functioning line, which should work thanks to the SIP credentials, or is it rather the integration of the telephone device that does not work?
I have Wingo and would like to use the FritzBox 5490. If I set the provider to Swisscom, I get the full 1Gbit/s, but I always have the Swisscom splash page when calling up websites. I can't find DHCP option 60 anywhere on the box. Setting a VLAN ID is also not possible.
If I activate the advanced settings, select another provider and set the VLAN ID to 10, I have Internet but the problem is that I only get 100 Mbps in the WLAN and via cable. In the settings, the value is set to 100,000kbit/s.
Does anyone have a solution?
Kind regards Whoisfoxmulder
I am a Sunrise customer with the Sunrise Internet Box and should transmit files with sFTP. Now this does not work with the Sunrise Box. Sunrise promised to send me a FritzBox, but it never arrived. After contacting Sunrise, they told me that their FritzBox was not fibre-optic compatible and that I should buy one myself. Now I have bought the Fritz!Box 5490 and the internet works fine, but the landline telephony does not work. I contacted Sunrise support. They can't do anything because they don't have access to this FritzBox to change parameters. Has anyone else had the same problem and how was it solved?
Hello, in order to be able to make calls with the 5490, you have to have the SIP data, these would have to be handed over by Sunrise, in the past Swisscom did not hand over these data either, so there was a router obligation, at Swisscom you have been able to request these SIP data via the customer centre for some time. N.B. the "Session Initiation Protocol" regulates in the background - before the dial tone sounds - the connection set-up between two terminals or the telephony software of two call participants. Customers dial a telephone number as usual.
