When the AVM FRITZ!Box 7150 showed up this morning I had just returned from the Internal Revenue Service (Finanzamt) to hand in my tax return. With the tax return taken care off I got right to setting it up and usually setting up a DSL Modem/Router shouldn’t be much trouble and it wasn’t – but there was one thing that truly annoyed me, enough to blog about it.
The box had all one would need, including a Quick Start Guide, but it was Windows only. At least they had included a readme file for Mac OS X on a CD, which finally told me that I could get to the web-interface by typing http://fritz.box in my browser, but why couldn’t they simply put that somewhere more visible?
Still, so far I am tremendously pleased with the new router and once I have had a chance to test the VoIP functionality a bit more I will most likely post a review.
Just one note – maybe that router was designed with Windows users in mind, but on my particular setup, being on a Mac made things easier 
You see, I have a Brother MFG-9180 multip-purpose printer, scanner, fax. I wanted to use the USB Host port of the router to get the printer to print, though I am fully aware, that it won’t allow me to scan. I followed the instructions to the dot and it didn’t work on my Windows Laptop. I tried this and that and no luck. I then decided to follow the Mac OS X instructions and lo and behold it couldn’t have been easier.
Full of confidence I went back to Windows XP and tried a little harder, uninstalled the printer driver, reinstalled it and voila after about half an hour, for something that took me 3 minutes on my Mac, I was finally able to print from my laptop as well.
Now I might just have been incredibly unlucky with my system setup… but still it kind of showed, why I like my Mac so much. Simplicity that turns to efficiency…
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