Irritating is also the intrusive lighting of Vodafone-red, beam-shaped design elements on the front and the buttons. Unfortunately, you can this lighting - in contrast to the display - not leave. The box had me therefore migrate into the cabinet.
The achieved throughput is impeccable. I booked a 50MBit-access and get in the downstream of the EasyBox 904 xDSL reliable 50MBit. The speed is even better than before with 50 MBit coaxial cable connection of Unitymedia via FRITZ! Box cable modem. Since the outdoor DLSAM few meters in front of the house is, the reception situation for the router, however, is also ideal.
With the call there are no problems, it all works reliably (caller lists, etc.). Attached was the DECT base of Philips phone and a fax modem from Elsa. The phone is dead, of course, if the DSL connection fails, at least when the connection such as in my case is based on VOIP. One needs in case of DSL outage a mobile phone - or a UMTS stick on the router, which I have not tried, but is apparently supported (not all UMTS Sticks include a calling feature).
I use Wi-Fi too rare to much to say, but had in the time in which I have turned it than an hour now and then, no problem. My Android tablet shows in 8m distance at from another room through an open door, 3 of 4 bar. The EasyBox is aggravating in a metal cabinet. The tablet is 4-5 WLAN networks in the house, so the router is not in an advantageous environment.
There are pages and pages of menus that provide an average home user like me satisfied. I expect that LAN / firewall, Internet and phone work fine and can be easily configured. This is - in the Vodafone network with "modem installation code" - the case. The rest is icing and the intricate special menu items in some other routers anyway almost nobody understands. At most DECT would be nice and is missing something. But since it did not make even a Fritz! Box to support the ECO + mode of my Philips DECT phone without error, I have of DECT in routers not think much and prefer to take the original base. There are certainly users who understand the most complex menu items in routers, appreciate and miss a deeper access to the network technology in this device.
I own the router now for more than 6 months, at this time only one update was installed automatically: 3.07 to 3.16. A function growth I could not see a result. The firmware support is, as far as the replacement delivery of new features, probably not at the level of the better known competition.
The energy consumption of EasyBox 904 is said to be up to 16W, which would be more or less typical for DSL router with PBX. You can turn off the WLAN USB menu and the display to save power. Because the display is little more than a nice gag - in practice it remained unused with me you can turn off the well. I can not measure what consumes the box without these features, but a good indication of the energy consumption is the heat that develops a device. The EasyBox 904 xDSL is only slightly warm in 24-hour continuous operation in the closet; the consumption is expected to remain under (around 10-12W?).
There are few things that bother me seriously and that lead to 3 stars to reduce my rating:
1. No built-in fax function. Just so I obliged to remain still an old fax
2. The "Reconnect" - for the purpose of allocating a new IP - it takes too long. What should take 30 seconds takes 3 minutes.
3. The starting procedure after power lasts forever.
Conclusion: For the subsidized sales price in connection with a DSL connection (currently EUR 1), this router is a hammer.
