AVM Fritz!Box 4040 Wireless Router (Cable/DSL/Fibre Modem, Dual WLAN AC+N, 866 Mbps (5 GHz) and 400 Mbit/s (2.4 GHz), 4 x Gigabit LAN, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, Media Server) No

The FRITZ!Box 4040 is the more technically advanced version of the 4020. It has a lot of impressive features, which might not be obvious at first. Compared with the 4020, it has Gigabyte capable LAN and WAN; 2 USB ports (one USB3 capable); dual band Wi-Fi (2.4 MHz & 5 MHz). Currently (July 2017), there only appears to be an international version available. Consequently, the plug-in power supply has a European style plug. A suitable adapter or a replacement power supply unit will be needed. The quick start guide contained in the box was in German. A multi-language version is available on the manufacturer’s website. Only a German language user guide could be found. If one wants to know more, obtaining the English version of the 4020 user guide would be a practical choice.The FRITZ!Box 4040 is a neat looking devices. It is reasonably versatile with a good range of configuration options. Unfortunately, some of the options were difficult to find. Slowly and systematically working through the menus was a worthwhile exercise. The options are generally easy to configure. The graphical display, of wireless channels in use, can be useful to a degree. Unfortunately, the representation of the overlapping channels for the 2.4 MHz band is technically inaccurate, which limits its use. Guest access for LAN and/or WLAN is possible, which gives the ability to run a separately isolated guest network from the router. There are a number of options to save power e.g. limit ports to 100 Mb/s rather than 1 Gb/s. It was possible to successfully set up an advanced network configuration; something that a router of a well-known North American brand had issues with. The ability to import relevant setting, which have been saved from another FRITZ!Box model, can be useful.Overall, the FRITZ!Box 4040 appears to be a better than average router. It appears to be reasonable value for money. I would certainly buy it again. The lack of UK-plug version and an English language manual might make it better suited to the more technical user.

I had it setup and forgot about it . Absolutely no issue with it, almost everywhere full signal and full speed on the phone and laptop over 10m away, passing through cable 2 RPi and one PC with an SSD on the USB3 as NAS. Well documented, if you know what you want the site has the procedure.Everything I needed it for, setup and forget.One thing to remember, in UK you need an adaptor, it will come with EU style power adapter.

Great router - but maybe better for geeks and nerds. It is a german product with decent english language support but yo may need to switch from german when setting up. It has loads of features - with top notch technology. Fritz! are very good a routers. Highly recommended if you need a really good quality router. I would suggest comparing Fritz! models to check that you order the exact model for your needs.

I brought this 4040 to replace my BT SmartHub which has its issues, so its being connected to my Fibre Modem (ONT) and needs to be able to handle at least 300 Mbps bandwidth, which it does.While this product is a very good one, it really needs to be updated to state that it is not really suitable for the UK due to it comes with an EU 2 pin mains plug of the adaptor, which is shown in the supplied image.I was lucky I had an old UK version of a FRITZ!Box 3390 which had a compatible UK PSU, so I am using that.And yes, I could of used an EU plug adapter, but you shouldn't have to, plus they stick out a lot making it easy for it to fall out.All instructions seems to be in German, so if you cannot read German you are on your own when setting up this product.Luckily, when you first power it up you are asked what language you want to use, but I have noticed with FRITZ Products in general is that not everything is translated to the selected language, you might select English when you first setup the product, and you will still have buttons with German text on it, this is resolved when you flash it with the latest firmware.Overall, once this router had all been setup and everything I didn't want was turned off (including the WPS feature) it worked fine, so I was very happy.I would of given it a 5/5 due to the fact its a nice product, sadly due to the lack of information and the contents etc, I give it a 4/5.

Delivery was very fast and extremely happy with my end product. Thanks very much.

Really quick delivery, works really well.

Correct, fast

A German box unusable in the K was supplied