Absolutely—if you’d pay €10 a month for lag-free streaming, the €275 outlay amortizes inside two years. You get Wi-Fi 7 headroom, a 2.5 GbE uplink, unified telephony, and seven-year firmware support. Competing mesh kits often charge extra per node and still lack fiber slots. Add energy-sip silicon that idles under 8 W, and ownership math tilts decisively in the router buyer’s favor today.

Every 15 minutes, each node exports a spectral map—basically a heat chart of interference—back to the virtuoso. The router then shuffles channels, adjusts transmit power and can even kick devices to 5 GHz or 6 GHz mid-packet. Because decisions are local, actions finish within 200 ms, avoiding the see-saw you feel on cloud-controlled systems like eero or Deco during peak evening Netflix hours.

AVM promises five years of updates, yet history suggests more. The 7390, launched 2010, still received patches in 2021—an 11-year runway. Updates ship directly from Berlin under strict GDPR hosting, so binaries never detour through CDNs. Combine that with automatic nightly installation windows and you’re protected from zero-days although the coffee’s brewing rather than burning on busy work-from-home mornings Monday.

Yes; the 5690 fails if fiber drops or DSL.

Absolutely; jitter shrinks below 10ms.

Not yet.