In reply to a post by GoWest:

Any Gigaset HX phone will wirelessly connect to the Fritz!Box DECT station. There are also a number of suitable Panasonic models.
https://en.avm.de/guide/avm-explains-dect/

Any that complies with the GAP standard should connect to the Fritz which would allow them to make and receive calls. I was really looking for whether you can access the address book, use caller display and some of the other features with a non-Fritz phone.

Probably the only way to find out is to try one and see. Mine are Gigaset S700 HPro

In reply to a post by GoWest:

No need whatsoever to go into any UI. If you press the button on top of the F!B adjacent to the WLAN LED, it disables the WLAN.

Unless, like me, you have disabled the buttons in the settings.

My loan AX arrived yesterday with 7.57 running. It has been running perfectly since starting at 4pm. I have a sneaking suspicion that the h/w on the basic 7530 is not able to run v8.0. As has already been suggested, either the CPU has run out of puff or there's not enough memory. That theory would fit in why those just using it as a'dumb' modem are not having problems.

Edited by countryman69 (Sun 20-Oct-24 06:46:16)

Got my loan 7530 yesterday lunchtime, sent me the AX version.
It was at version 7.59.

Set it up, confgured it, disabled updates. (however missed the provider pushed updates page)

Got to bed time, not a single drop.

Was also running back at the max speeds, the other had dropped 15-20 mbps with its amounts of restarts,

Got up this morning to an email from Zen....Weve updated to V8....

So if you want to avoid that, need to disable remote management too. when to do that would have been tricky, so in one way its good its done, the other is it has been up since 2:30 with no drops, so looks promising.

Agree on wifi disable not being as obvious as it should be in the GUI, Very easy by clicking My Fritz top right corner of the interface, where its then just a simple switch.

Edited by jamsmv6 (Sun 20-Oct-24 09:59:10)

Should add, this is my 2nd loan router...

Lat time as it proved my original was faulty, thats the one that went back.

I expect the same here....Although if they find a fix they may well want to remotely apply and test it.

No issue either way TBH. As long as whatever I have works and is stable, holding the line at the best speed it can Im happy.

I dont use Phone, or wifi functionality on it for the extra functionality to make any difference to me.

Can anyone confirm that a 7530 running an FTTP service appears to be ok with V8? It looks like all the reports on here so far are with VDSL. It may be that the reduced load with VDSL disabled circumvents the problem with the 7530.

Updated....dammit...same thing happened here and, of course, we can't rollback due to that bug in v8.0

7530AX here oh FTTP, its been running v8 since delivered a few weeks ago and SO FAR at least no reboots or drops.

Its mesh connected to an older 7530 which seems to still be running 7.59.

Did it update itself automatically? Mine's still on 7.59 and I'm hoping I've managed to disable auto updates for the time being, at least until these issues are resolved.

In addition to the change on the System > Update > Auto Update tab > Specify = Level 1: NOTIFY only
(for OS updates from AVM)
and at the bottom of same page, OS updates initiated from Home Network can also be Unticked


there is Internet > Account Information > Provider Services tab > Permit automatic updates = Unticked
(for OS updates managed by ISP)

With Notify selected, I was previously being informed of v8.00 being available,
but now the dashboard is saying "7.59 - Version up to date" (for 7530 non AX)
which also makes me think AVM have paused updates either for this model
or via a filter to opt out based on Country, ISP or type of connection in the Internet settings
(assuming the router sends such basic info about itself in the update check).

Edited by prlzx (Sun 20-Oct-24 12:22:03)