Converting a German targeted Fritz!Box Fon Wlan to an International version

[imagomundi]

make calls on any of the lines with different sip registrars.

I think you mix up "lines" and "sockets" (in a router or box). You might have only one (or more) telephone sockets in an ATA but have as many lines (= sip accounts - even with different providers) as your ATA allows to configure.
You might connect only ONE telephone (physically) to ONE (physical) port of a FRITZbox but use this same phone with up to 10 different "lines" = SIP accounts. I do that - have registered 6 different SIP accounts from 5 different SIP providers in 3 different countries and do maintain 3 different apparently landline numbers in 2 different countries. So people can call me in one country dialling either of my two numbers there (the callers are charged a fee as local call) but my (sole) telephone rings where I live (in Latin America). Same happens if people call from the other country where I can be reached through a local number (for local call charges for the caller either) and the same telephone (remember: I do have only one!) rings here at my home (and -thanks to SIP standard- in my office at the same time).
I'm not sure if you really understand the "miracles" you can do with a good FRITZbox and real internet telephony.

 

[waynester59]

yes, we are on the same wavelength, my ata only allows one sip registration, and the netgear is dedicated to a single sip provider but allows a choice of two accounts (and consequently two telephone numbers). I want to maintain one phone only to accept and make all calls, and to switch to another incoming call if a call waiting tone is heard. I too maintain sip accounts in australia (where my family is) and the UK where I live, so the Fritzbox sounds to be my saviour! I am using cable as stated, but ideally would like the luxury of having a universal box in case I ever went to adsl, many thanks for taking time to respond to my questions.

 

[rikrok321]

Has 7170 VPN feature enabled or not?

Dear friends,
I have two questions....

1) I would like to know if FB7170 has VPN feature enabled? And does it matter if the FB7170 with English or German firmware & Web Interface?

2) I sent one FB7140 to my relative in Canada. However there seems to be a problem with this FB7140. After starting to use it the accounts are successfully configured.However after few hours there seems to be a lose of dialling phone tone. The WiFi router and the internet is working fine. On the Web GUI is working fine and showing that all SIP accounts were still registered. However the phone connected to the VOIP/SIP FB7140 looses the dialling tone. Please tell me if you guys have come across this issue or is this some problem with FB7140? or if you have heard any problem like this for FB7140 being used in Norht America?

I shall be very grateful if you can aswer the above 2-questions. Thanks a million

 

[telefonicus]

You mean there is no more dial tone (at both phone jacks?) after it has worked for some time and you haven't changed nothing in between? Or have you dialed some weird key sequences like #88*...*?

It might help to re-start the Fritzbox.

best regards,
Teflonicus

 

[aster_dox]

Congratulations! You did a good job!

Question: Do you have the FBF classic (no WLAN) with firmware 06.04.24 working in ATA-mode (as a router, via the LAN port)?
My experience: All my trials with this FB in ATA mode failed - no matter which FW version I used.
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Hi "el_valiente", sorry for not answering before, I just checked the Forum and found your message.
The answer is yes, my FBF Classic (no WLAN) works as ATA, connecting via Internet through the LAN port (using PPPoE) with version 06.04.24.
I have though to connect my PC through the USB port (not possible via LAN since the software activates the firewall protection in the LAN port, which behaves then exactly as the WAN port of the standard ATA box.
IP telefonie works also fine.

Regards, and thanks again for your help,
Aster_dox.

 

[el_valiente]

... my FBF Classic (no WLAN) works as ATA ...

Avoid full quotes, please - mods do not like them at all!

Thanks for your feedback.
I did resolve my problem, using a crossover cable. Now the FB Fon works fine.
The FB Fon classic has no "auto uplink select" (auto MDI/MDI-X), thus it needs either a crossover cable or a switch having auto MDI/MDI-X.
If your FB Fon works fine in ata mode, I suppose you have a switch anywhere in between. Is that right?
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[aster_dox]

... I suppose you have a switch anywhere in between. Is that right?
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Yes, you are right, I have it connected to a switch with auto-mdix.

 

[rikrok321]

Has 7170 VPN feature enabled or not?

You mean there is no more dial tone (at both phone jacks?) after it has worked for some time and you haven't changed nothing in between? Or have you dialed some weird key sequences like #88*...*?

@Guru Teflonicus,
What seems to be happening is that when FB7140 is plugged in then SIP accounts are configured without a problem and internet broadcast work perfectly fine. However about an hour later the dialling tone seem to disappear eventhough all the rest on the FB7140 works perfectly fine. And if then somebody try to call in on any configured SIP accounts then the call doesn't get through. When the Web interface is checked then there is no error message found and it still shows that all the SIP accounts correctly registered and functioning, moreoever there is no physical dialling tone in the phone and no incoming calls are initiated?!?! I would like to mention here that no strange combination of key sequence is used on the phone.

The FB7140 has been rebooted number of times. Again it only works for a some time and then again the dialling tone seem to go away on permanent vacation unless its been dragged back by a FB7140 reboot

Secondly... do you know if the VPN feature exist in FB7170 or does it exist in FB7140 too?? And if this feature only exists in German version of the Web interface??
Becuase my understanding was that FB7140 and FB7170 were practically the same?!?!

Any kind assistance will be highly appreciated..........

 

[waynester59]

imported 7170 now in English

My deep gratitude to imagomundi on his advice of FritzBox, and to the wonderful postings and guides from telefonicus. I know have a box working via cable modem, previously on the UI firmware, now working on the latest English firmware. I am in pretty much awe of these box's, this is my first exposure to them and they are brilliant! The pbx function is outstanding. Thanks for making my day guys, and the forum itself!

 

[waynester59]

Conversion is no longer difficult or risky these days.


If you got a German Fritzbox all you got to do is

1) set the branding to avme (quote SETENV firmware_version avme or use the avme pseudoimage) to allow the English firmware update/recovery
2) recover to the latest English annex-B Firmware
3) set the modem to annex A using the annex-A pseudoimage

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I changed to english firmware as above, recovered with english firmware, but failed on the conversion to annexe A. I tried to do a firmware update with the psuedo image tar above and it came back with the specified file does not contain firmware released for this device by AVM. I continued anyway and it came back with The firmware update failed... no error.
any suggestions? Would adam2 be a solution?
ps, anyone have the startcenter in english?
thanks

 

[imagomundi]

came back with The firmware update failed... no error.

No need for a solution because there is no problem. It's all done. This final message is just the normal one and does NOT mean that the Annex change is not done. "no error" is the only important part of the message. Connect your box to your DSL-Annex-A and it will work.

 

[rikrok321]

Any suggestions about my post #968

Dear friends,

I would be grateful if anyone can give a kind assistance with regards to my post #968??

thanks in advance!:lamer:

 

[ljsilver71]

can someone answer this?

i have a new 3270 with latest firmware, want to turn it to annex A, and cannot access it to apply the patches, no way to access it via telnet or ftp.
what to do?
thanks a lot.

 

[waynester59]

did you try using the annexe a patches? It worked on my 7170, so may do for your new wizzy box. You dont need to ftp or telnet, just use firmware update in the fritz menu, just as you would do for a firmware update or labour install. If it comes back with update failed with no errors then that is ok, as it is not an indication the patch failed. good luck Mr Phelps, this message will self destruct in 5 seconds.....

 

[ljsilver71]

this is the result :
Das Firmware-Update ist fehlgeschlagen:

Kein Fehler.

Wiederholen Sie das Firmware-Update oder starten Sie FRITZ!Box neu.

don't think it's correct cause now it continues to self-reset, there's a way to do an hardware reset?

 

[imagomundi]

take all cables off for 5 minutes and then reconnect. By the way: which file did you upload to your box?

 

[ljsilver71]

first, thanks to you all for answers, ok I probably did a mess, i try to resume :
1) i've bought 3270 cause i don't need telephony at all
2) i live in Italy and need to use annex A to connect
3) i've installed the update for 3270 hoping it has more languages and annex A (and obviously got german language UND Annex B)
4) so i've tried to upload the files i've found on the forum, before trying i opened the shell script and tought they were to run after uploading them. anyway i've used the "update" method without untarring them.
5) i've uploaded in order fritz_as_annex_a_kernel_args_newer.tar and had no success in switching to annex A
6) then i've trued fritz_as_avm_newer.tar same result
7) last (but not least) i've tried the fritz_as_avme_newer.tar
8) the result now is that router boots, initializes wlan and when it initializes LAN it self-resets.
9) tried to restore the firmware using the downloadable from avm ftp : fritz_box_wlas_3270.04.60.recover-image.exe (the same version of fware i have installed successfully) but i got a wrong firmare version error (same error i get trying with the previous version).

Now my Fritz looks broken or stuck and cannot find a way out.
Do you think there's one or i shall send it to avm hoping they fix it?

Thanks in advance.

LjSilver

 

[imagomundi]

5) i've uploaded in order fritz_as_annex_a_kernel_args_newer.tar and had no success in switching to annex A

How did you prove that?? Did you try to cennect to DSL?

[QUOTE)7. last (but not least) i've tried the fritz_as_avme_newer.tar
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Here is the reason for your mess! Must find a way back to "avm". ftp should still work! I don't know the 3270. Is there a recover.exe for an english firmware version??

 

[ljsilver71]

ok, i've solved the problem of point 7, simply changing the parameter firmware_version from avme to avm, now i have a brand new fritz box with firmware 67.04.68 again.
now i have inserted manually the string kernel_args annex=A and i see it in the Support Data, will try to connect to dsl after i've sent this message.
thanks again for your help!

 

[ljsilver71]

sadly no luck, anyway got a result : the power light isn't more flashing as it was before beginning to hack the device, now it's fixed , think that means "it" feels the DSL signal, but no luck in connecting to ISP (telecom Alice) using same parameters i'm using on other (old) old router, VPI=8, VCI=35 PPPoA/VC-MUX.
any clues?