Unitymedia: Setting up Fritzbox - a guide

If you have a cable connection at Unitymedia, you can set up your Fritzbox yourself in just a few steps. Read in this practical tip how to do it.

Unitymedia: Use the Internet via Fritzbox at the cable connection - how it works

If the Fritz box has been provided by Unitymedia, it is already preconfigured and will be set up automatically as soon as you have connected the box. If you bought the Fritzbox from a specialist dealer, proceed as follows:

1. Call Unitymedia customer service and have the Fritzbox activated for your cable connection. You will need the serial number and the MAC address for this. You can find this information on the sticker on the underside of the Fritzbox.
2. Then you have to connect the box to your computer and the cable connection.
3. To set up Internet access, go to the Fritzbox user interface.
4. If you have not yet made any settings, select your language and enter the password, which you can also find on the sticker on the underside of the device.
5. Then enter "Germany". You are now in the "Set up Internet access" menu.
6. Click "Internet"> "Access data" and select "Internet access via cable connection".
7. As soon as the power LED lights up continuously, click on "Next" and restart the box. You have now set up Internet access.

Unitymedia: Setting up a Fritzbox for telephony - how it works

1. In order to set up phone numbers with the Fritzbox, you need at least FritzOS 6.62. So first install the current FritzOS.
2. Call up the user interface in the browser.
3. Navigate to "Telephony"> "Own numbers"> "Add number" and select either "Unitymedia (BaWü)" or "Unitymedia (NRW / Hessen)" from the selection list.
4. You now need the login data, which you can find in your customer account at Unitymedia under "My Products>" Telephone ">" Access data for telephony ".
5. As soon as you click "Next", a wizard will guide you through the rest of the process.
6. To assign phone numbers to the connected devices, navigate in the user interface to "Telephony"> "Telephony devices".
7. Then click the stylus button to edit entries.
8. Select the number for outgoing calls for the selected device from the selection list.
9. Then define the number for incoming calls.
10. With a click on "OK" you save your settings.
11. If you cannot find your desired device in the list, first select "Set up new device" and then follow the instructions of the wizard.

With the free tool Janrufmonitor you can easily manage all calls via the Fritzbox. In the next post you can download the practical call monitoring.