Why does the Netz-AK not offer a “ready-to-use WiFi” for the room?
- With our own WiFi, you can access the Internet with your game consoles, printers and everything else you want.
- A router will cost you an average of β¬35 once, “ready-to-use WiFi” would become more expensive after two months at most.
- Helping each of you (with any kind of device) to connect to a WiFi managed by us is too much work for us volunteers.
- Gamers and people who use the network intensively appreciate the lower latency and higher speed of a network cable.
In short, it is more free, faster and cheaper.
How do I set up my own WiFi?
You connect a router to our network socket and then it usually works.
Common problems:
- The network socket often has two ways to plug in the cable, but only one is active at a time (try both!).
- Not everything that is sold as a router is a real router, sometimes it is a DSL modem or an access point (see list).
- The software settings in the router. Your connection is not a DSL connection and there are no credentials needed (see settings).
List of routers that work in our network
We are not allowed to recommend a specific router, but we have made a selection from the routers we have helped you with since 2019. Everything marked “π«” in the table is not a router and does not work on our network. Everything marked ββοΈβ in the table is a wireless router and works.
Your Router should support 5 GHz, otherwise we expect dropouts π.
If you have a router that is not on the list, please contact us (subject: Creating a WiFi) and we will add it to the list.
If you search for “router 5 GHz” you`ll find several devices for ~35β¬. If you pay more you won`t get “better internet”, but if you pay less you usually don`t get “5 GHz” (less interferences with other WiFis).
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Hersteller | Modellbezeichnung | Router | 5 GHz |
---|---|---|---|
TP-LINK | TL-WR841N | βοΈ | π |
TP-LINK | AC1200-Dualband-WLAN-Router | βοΈ | βοΈ |
TP-LINK | Archer A7 / AC1750 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
TP-LINK | Archer C20 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
TP-LINK | Archer C50 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
TP-LINK | TL-WR802N | βοΈ | π |
TP-LINK | TL-MR3020 | βοΈ | π |
TP-LINK | TL-MR3420 | βοΈ | π |
TP-LINK | TL-WR940N | βοΈ | π |
TP-LINK | TL-WA801ND | π« | π« |
TP-LINK | TL-WA901ND | π« | π« |
TP-LINK | TL-WA855RE | π« | π« |
Asus | RT-N12E | βοΈ | π |
Asus | RT-AC66U | βοΈ | π |
Netgear | DGN2200 | π« | π« |
Netgear | WNR2000v5 | βοΈ | π |
Netgear | AC1200 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
D-link | DAP-1360 | π« | π« |
D-link | DIR-809 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
D-link | DIR-X1560 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Tenda | N301 | βοΈ | π |
Tenda | F9 600 | βοΈ | π |
Tenda | W316R | βοΈ | π |
Tenda | AC6 AC1200 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Tenda | AC8 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Tenda | AC10 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Arris | (Vodafone) TG3442DE | π« | π« |
devolo | dLAN 500 | π« | π« |
Huawei | WiFi AX3 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
Telekom | Speedport 912V | π« | π« |
Xiaomi | Mi Router 4A | βοΈ | βοΈ |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7312 | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 2170 | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 1750E | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 3131 | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 3170 | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 3370 | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 4020 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 4040 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7170 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7240 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7330 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7360 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7412 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7430 | βοΈ | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7490 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7510 | π« | π |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7530 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7580 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
AVM | FRITZ!Box 7590 | βοΈ | βοΈ |
AVM | FRITZ!Repeater 2400 | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Repeater 450E | π« | π« |
AVM | FRITZ!Repeater 1750E | π« | π« |
Router settings
First you have to know that the connection in the room is an Ethernet connection and not like in most households DSL.
You need a WiFi-router which you connect with the WAN-port (the blue cable in the picture) to the network socket in your room. Some models use for this type of connection Lan1. Now you connect a PC with the router. In most cases you have two options. The first option is that you connect your PC to the wifi of your router. If a wireless key required it is in most cases printed on a label
on the bottom of the device.
The second option is that you connect your PC to one of the
Lan-ports (in yellow ones in the picture) of your router. Now you open the web interface of your router in your browser(Internet explorer, safari, chrome, β¦). The required address and login information should also be printed on a label on the bottom of your device. The address should be similar to 192.168.x.1. In the now open web interface you should use the Setup-Wizard. You chose as connection type βreceive IP automatically over DHCPβ. Another common name ist “IP-Client-Modus”. Remember the connection is an Ethernet connection and does not need any Login data .
Afterwards you should change the password for your router and your network key. If you want you can also change your network name (SSID.)
Example: TP-LINK TL-WR940N
Connect to the Wi-Fi, Quick setup -> Standard Wireless Router -> Dynamic IP (Most Common Cases) -> No, I do NOT need to clone MAC address. -> … Next – Finish
Example: FRITZ!Box 4020
Connect you router like on page 36 “Connecting to the Internet Access: Existing Router” (other models “Cabel Modem or Internet Router”).
Use an Ethernet cable to connect the blue port labeld “WAN” to the wall-socket.
Select the settings as described on page 57 .
If you have trouble with one of the steps, we configure your router together.