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Re:QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP by izacus on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:47PM (#46559833)
No, Fritzboxes have distinguished themselves by being about the best device you can hope to get from an ISP.
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Re:QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP by drnick1 on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:10PM (#46560096)
If this is the best you can get, you are better off not renting their stuff and buying an OpenWrt One for a time $100 investment give or take.
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Re:QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP by ahartmetz on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:43PM (#46561856)
No really, they are pretty decent. I stopped running an old PC for router and firewall after I got a Fritzbox. It can traffic-shape, forward ports, configure fixed IP addresses and DNS names, provide limited guest access to the WiFi, analyze the WiFi spectrum (and show a graph) to choose uncongested channels, and do a whole bunch of things that I don't use but which are conceivably useful like VPN server, file server and such.
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