FRITZ!Repeater 6000 – the professional in disguise
The integration as a WLAN repeater in the mesh works totally simple in the AVM device cosmos, so as known and used. Press the button on the repeater and router, wait a short time and you’re done.
The repeater, a power adapter, and a kind of manual are delivered. As with the router, I praise the recyclable cardboard packaging and criticize the superfluous protective film on the even more superfluous piano lacquer surface. Well, you can’t have everything.
The FRITZ!Repeater 6000 is equipped with three wireless modules and a quad-core CPU that is quite fast for a repeater. I already wrote that the FRITZ!Repeater 6000 in WLAN-supported repeater mode its third radio module for “in-house” connection with the FRITZ!Box 6000 and thus actually becomes a pure dual-band router again. The real tri-band devices require Wi-Fi 6E, which is not possible with all devices tested today in terms of hardware. However, if you look at the current prices of the extended Wi-Fi 6E systems with the 6 GHz band, you quickly refrain from it and rather come to terms with this compromise. But real tri-band also works excellently if you know how.
At the back of the FRITZ!Repeater 6000 has a normal 1 Gbit LAN socket and another 2.5 Gbit socket. This port can be used universally in networks with 10 to 2,500 Mbit. And here’s the kicker: Everything can be operated as a true tri-band if you connect the repeater and router with an Ethernet cable (no matter which of the two jacks). Furthermore, everything can be distributed even more finely to the three individual radio processors if you separate all three bands by a different SSID each!
Only if you do that, the 6000 in the name also explains itself, because in the 2.4 GHz band are in theory, as already with the FRITZ!Box 4060, up to 1.2 Gbit/s gross possible. In the 5 gigahertz band, 2.4 Gbit/s are then promised in both the lower and middle bands. If you add these three speeds together, you get a total of 6000 Mbit/s. Nomen est omen, or something like that. But unfortunately only with cable!
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FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX – The butter-and-bread Wi-Fi 6
Although this pure dual-band device is an access point, it can also be used as a normal Wi-Fi 6 repeater by default. After all, this is currently as cheap as the older FRITZ!Repeater 2400, which makes it quite interesting, because the manufacturer promises up to 3000 Mbit/s gross in the sum of both bands. There are no accessories, because it is a pure plug-in device, with all the advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, the integrated power plug sits in the center of the back, so smooth operation on a light switch-socket combination just has to go wrong. It is missing about 2 cm to complete happiness. Many competitors are now better at this.
However, the depth of about 4 centimeters from the socket is less annoying. There are decent ventilation slots in the base unit all around the sides. An Ethernet LAN port for up to 1 Gbit/s speed is also located in the center at the bottom. Here you can simply connect the repeater via LAN cable to a router and feed it or alternatively connect a device via cable to the router and use it as data access to the WLAN (e.g. Ethernet printer or a single PC). The integration of the repeater is as easy as usual and happens at the push of a button. Otherwise, the repeater works as an independent access point behind the router and you can configure it via the router’s web interface.
I therefore push butter-and-bread because the small repeater can do everything it should and nothing more, which you can’t expect in this price and performance class anyway. In the meantime, I even have three of them and thus realized the area coverage up to the children’s room. Thanks to Mesh.
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