THE FRITZ!BOX 7490

Have you ever watched the old or new Thunderbirds? If so the 245mm wide, 175mm long and 55mm tall enclosure of the FRITZ!Box 7490 should remind you of them at first glance (unfortunately its quality is not the best).

Part of the top is perforated and as you can see there are also two buttons present (DECT and WLAN/WPS functionality).

There are also 5 large activity LEDs at the front of the device indicating the power, DSL status, DECT phone status, wireless status and finally an info LED which can be adjusted to light up on various "alarms".

A USB 3.0 port is placed on the left side of the FRITZ!Box 7490 and on the left side we find two areas where the German version (not the International one we have here) has two extra phone ports (we didn't open the enclosure byt the hardware should still be there behind these covers).

At the rear we see the DSL/TEL port (used with the 4.25mm long connecting cable), two analog phone ports, one ISDN phone port, 4 gigabit Ethernet LAN ports, USB 3.0 port and the power port (unfortunately the device lacks a dedicated WAN port - you can still use LAN 1 for that - and an on/off button).

Most of the base is also perforated and as you can see the device can also be mounted onto a wall.