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AVM's box (and branding) design hasn't changed much over the years, nor does it make much of an attempt to be stylish. But it does give you plenty of information about what to expect inside.
In the box is a 4m DSL cable with an adapter for a UK phone plug. There's a 1.5m LAN cable and power adapter, which curiously didn't come with an adapter for UK power (although our unit was shipped to us from Germany so units sold in the UK may have the right plug).
The 7690 is almost indistinguishable physically from its 7590 predecessor. The combination of cream, red and grey plastic is jauntier than most router designs these days. On the top there are lights and buttons, which enable you to turn off the WLAN and phone system, or engage the WPS automated wireless client connection system.
Most of the ports are on the rear, starting with the connection for ADSL (modem built in) on the left. Next along are the two RJ11 ports for analog landline phones, then the 2.5Gbit Ethernet WAN port. The LAN hub has three ports – one operates at 2.5Gbit, while the other two only 1Gbit.
On the right-hand side from the front is the German TAE analog phone connection, which you will probably never use in the UK. On the right is a regular Type A USB 2.0 port for attaching storage and other devices (which we will discuss in the next section on the management interface).
Acer Swift 14 AI WiFi 7 Laptop
For testing the latest WiFi 7 wireless networking, Acer sent us its Swift 14 AI notebook, based around a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus Oryon X1P-64-100 CPU. This is a ten-core processor running at up to 3.4GHz across all cores, although without a single-core boost frequency (you need the X1P-66-100 for that). Our sample was supplied with 16GB of LPDDR5x memory and a 1TB SSD. Although this is an ARM-based laptop, it can still run Windows 11 and our standard WiFi testing software, iPerf3. It's a solid choice for road warriors who need to spend days away from a reliable power source, thanks to a 26-hour battery life.
