With the 'intelligent networking' feature, the Mesh Master (for example FRITZ!Box or FRITZ!Repeater) itself optimizes the connection of your FRITZ!Repeater configured as a Mesh Repeater, resulting in an even better and smarter FRITZ! Mesh.

As soon as you use more than one Mesh Repeater, whenever there are changes in the home network or a Mesh Repeater is restarted, the connections are re-evaluated and optimized according to the current conditions. The Mesh Master also takes the Wi-Fi properties (e.g. tri-band Wi-Fi) and the connection type (e.g. LAN) of the individual Mesh Repeaters as well as the resulting total speed of the different possible connection paths into account.

FRITZ! Mesh optimizes itself

Setting up a Mesh Repeater is now even easier. Simply establish the connection to your FRITZ!Repeater at the push of a button and then plug it into a socket at the desired location. The connection to the Mesh Master is then established automatically via the best possible route in your home network. This may be, for example, by cascading through an existing Mesh Repeater. You do not need to do anything else; the devices synchronize with each other to provide maximum performance in the home network.

Prerequisites for intelligent networking

To use intelligent networking, FRITZ!OS 8.20 must be installed on the Mesh Master and Mesh Repeaters, and it is already enabled by default. Connections from a Mesh Repeater are still optimized by intelligent networking if adoption of the settings from the Mesh is disabled. If you prefer to manually specify which of your FRITZ! devices your FRITZ!Repeater is connected to, you can disable the feature under 'Home Network > Mesh > Mesh Settings' in the user interface of the Mesh Master. However, intelligent networking is then no longer available in the entire Mesh.