This was a tad difficult to find as I searched for “Convert Fritz!Box to Switch” instead of “Convert Fritz!Box to Access Point”.
Since I had an old Fritz!Box 7360 lying around (from my ADSL era) and wanted to extend the cabled LAN for my brothers Fritz!Box 7490 with some low-bandwidth devices (max 100 megabit/second) I searched for Switch. My bad.
Oh I had to factory reset it as well as I forgot the management credentials. The AVM help on this is cumbersome: Loading the FRITZ!Box factory settings | FRITZ!Box 7360 | AVM International but the xs4all help includes a web-reset procedure as part of Internet: Reset procedures van mijn FRITZ!Box 7360 which translates to:
- Switch off the Fritz!Box (as this procedure needs to be done within 10 minutes of switching it on)
- Connect LAN2 to your computer
- Switch on the Fritz!Box
- Wait for a DHCP IP or (if you know the IP addresses) configure IP manually
- Go to the web-interface URL
- Indicate you forgot your password:
Forgot your password?
- Indicate you want a factory reset:
Restore Factory Settings
Anyway: with the above steps it becomes a Managed Switch (and if you don’t disable WiFi: Access Point too) that uses the primary internet connection as DHCP server (so it gets an IP address itself as well which means you can manage it).
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