Hi! As some of you will be aware I've had one of these "Treasureboxes" as I like to call the Fritzbox 7390 since early February and every time I play with the HTML interface of the device I come away amazed and overoared! at what the developers have done and are doing with this piece of equipment.
For those who don't know the Fritzbox 7390 is a fully equipped network wouter, with ADSL 2 modem and fully functional VOIP phone facility. Added to that the box contains a DECT base station so you can add cordless phone handsets tho it and configure them yourself handset by handset through the excellent accessible HTML Interface. So on with my story, I decided to set up some "Dialling Rules" for the 2 "Fritzphone" handsets I have connected to my Fritzbox. Up until now I'd been using a Cisco SPA-3021 VOIP adapter and believe me! setting up "Dialling Rules" was no mean feat as you had to know the syntax exactly of every line for every rule. Thankfully the Fritzbox doesn't work like that, the user just follows a wizard to complete the rule. For example suppose you want all calls starting with the prefix "13" to be dialled using the PSTN line from a cordless handset you've named "Lounge", all the user need do is to go into "Dialling Rules", select the Handset you wish to create the rule for, select dialling prefix or suffix and then type in the numbers and that's all there is to the procedure. There are other types of "Dialling Rules" I haven't had a chance to play with yet called Number Blocks. I love the way the Fritzbox manages calls, each and every missed, incoming and outgoing call is recorded in a perfectly accessible table and from here you can add the numbers associated with who's called to your telephone book which again is perfectly accessible and easily manipulated, I even found a function which allows you to have the Fritzbox "Dial" the number you have highlighted in the table so you just press the "Dial" button in your browser and pick up your handset or connected telephone, neat! Next I'm going to tackle the built-in media servier of the Fritzbox, it is supposed to manage the access of externally connected drives or its own 512MB of RAM. ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
