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Setting up FRITZ!Box for use with a DSL line

You want to connect a new FRITZ!Box and set it up? ✔ Keep your account information handy and simply start the wizard for internet access.

The FRITZ!Box automatically connects to the internet when you connect it to your DSL line and enter your personal account information in the FRITZ!Box user interface. The complete FRITZ!Box range of functions for internet, telephony, and smart home is then available to all of the devices in your home network without restriction.

Refer to Setting up the FRITZ!Box: Guides for different providers for links to our provider-specific guides. If your internet service provider is not listed there, proceed as described in this guide.

Note:All instructions on configuration and settings given in this guide refer to the latest FRITZ!OS for the FRITZ!Box.

1 Connecting the FRITZ!Box with your DSL line

  1. Insert the DSL cable into the DSL socket on the FRITZ!Box and into the F socket on the phone jack or into the DSL line.
    Connecting FRITZ!Box with a DSL line in Germany (left) and in other countries (right)

2 Configuring the internet connection in the FRITZ!Box

  1. Open the FRITZ!Box user interface.
  2. Enter the FRITZ!Box password given on the type label of the FRITZ!Box and click on 'Log In'.
  3. If the wizard for internet access does not start automatically, click on 'Wizards' and then on 'Configure the Internet Connection'.
    Calling up the FRITZ!Box wizard
  4. If your internet service provider is displayed in the drop-down list, select your internet service provider. If your provider is not listed, select 'more internet service providers'.
    • If your internet service provider is not displayed in the drop-down list, select 'other internet service provider'.
  5. Click on 'Next' and follow the wizard's instructions.

Now the FRITZ!Box uses the account information you entered to establish the internet connection. Then you can configure your phone numbers in the FRITZ!Box and connect your wireless devices with the FRITZ!Box.

3 Setting up telephony in the FRITZ!Box

If you want to connect phones to the FRITZ!Box and use them to make calls over the internet:

  1. Configure the internet phone numbers in the FRITZ!Box.