AVM - FRITZ!Box 6490 Cable

I have put Fritzbox 6490 in the cellar & the work room in the cellar uses LAN cable connected to that router. In the living room, I use a Netgear extender, which works okay for TV & Bosch cameras. I have nothing in the 1st floor wherein we have our bedroom. We use the WiFi from the living room. On the top floor, we have a LAN cable that is connected to the Fritz router. I have put a Fritz mesh repeater. My wife works in one of the rooms there. We get almost the same speed as in Cellar due to LAN being extended over there. All these were bought on Kleinanzeigen. If you have LAN ports in all the floors, just plugin Fritz mesh repeater & for work use LAN ports (or just a 1Gbit switch).

You don't have to oversell it, it's a decent router from EU, but very limited, handholding and not very secure.  List of CVEs https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=avm

Both renting or buying are valid options. The telekom routers are not bad. The advantage of renting is that they will replace the router if it breaks or if for reasons of modernization you need a new one, but both of these cases are rare. Fritzbox are generally easy to use and seen as reliable; also they get software updates for a long time usually - at least in the past it was usually 10 years after the introduction of a model, possibly even more. However the manufacturer of Fritzbox (AVM) has been bought by an investor last year (I believe, maybe even 2023), so it is quiet probable that the software update policy will worsen. I still would buy a fritzbox though if I would want to buy a router. Which router you could buy depends on what technology your internet access is. The most common ones are DSL or Glasfaser (fibre). Some buildings have cable internet.

GenieACS works fine with fritzboxes. What exactly does not work for you? How do you feed the ACS URL to your boxes, do they even register in the ACS?

Renting is the better option and Fritz! Box is the way to go (made in Berlin, Germany, for all the r/BuyfromEU reasons).

Used quite a bit by regional ISPs in Ireland

These things are solid. I've been using them for 10 years... Before with copper and now fibre. Never had an issue.

Maybe they send the good ones to Switzerland 😂

I have been using FRITZ!Boxes for 20 years without any issue. Also running FRITZ! smart home stuff, no issues as well.

False, you can also configure it to use TOTP to confirm security settings.

You can also configure it to use TOTP via any Authenticator of your choice.

The speedports work, but they are very basic. If you want a more configurable option, you can use the speedport as a modem and attach e.g. a FRITZ!Box. That seems too much but this way the Telekom support can still check the connection with whatever proprietary thing they do with the speedport.