Actually you missed one enhancement....the ability to log data throughput on seven attached devices. I can see that being memory intensive. Enough to make that watchdog reboot ?

If none of these fit for you then what do you think is the reason for the reboots ?

Edited by countryman69 (Tue 22-Oct-24 22:35:04)

It appears from the posst above that reboots happen only on an xDSL connection, not when connected via LAN1. If so, data throughput display won't be the culprit IMO,

I strongly doubt it measures energy consumption. I actually have no idea what it measures. One of my routers is used via LAN1 only but it keeps displaying DSL energy usage at 80% (and WiFi at 100%). It's not very intelligible to me.

In reply to a post by countryman69:

Their 'explanation' does not stand up. 'The recent firmware update triggered an automatic reboot of the device, which may have appeared as a disconnection to some users. We have identified and stopped this auto reboot '

My understanding of the issue is that Zen's ACS periodically checks in on routers (checking for a valid auth etc), this check includes checking the router firmware version. If the ACS noticed a different version than the one it thought was the most recent (I assume this was incorrectly set to 7.59 instead of 8.0), it'd force the router to redownload/install the update, causing the reboot. This repeated forever until they pushed the fix through to their ACS the other day.

That said, as it's still ongoing... who knows

When I first started experiencing the reboots that occurred to me too.

So the first thing I did was disable data usage collection by device.

Didn't help at all though. Still rebooted several times a day.

I received a loner 7530 AX from Zen today. Updated it to 8.0 firmware and installed my saved config file from my (non AX) 7530. That's 12 hours now. No reboots so far.

Edited by MightyTharg (Wed 23-Oct-24 00:33:11)

Think you might be missing the point. Processor loading managing the DSL interface is, in contrast to a LAN1 connection, significantly higher. Pushing the router towards that reboot.

Could also be a memory leak.

This issue would have been picked up a lot sooner had Zen 7530 users been given access to Fritz!Labs OS labor/beta updates. Built into these updates is the ability to rollback to the last stable OS.

My Fritz!Box (not a 7530) is currently on version 7.90-116186 BETA

Given that Fritz!Boxes are some of the easiest routers on the planet to configure, I am not sure why Zen has gone down the route of managing updates.

I notice the info sticker on the underside of my 7530 says "Edition Zen Internet".

I wonder if the Zen edition of the 7530 has a lower hardware spec than other 7530 routers.

Not so. I was running the beta version on my 7530, had the reboot issues but could not rollback due to the bug mentioned elsewhere.

I was wondering about that as well. Possibly reduced RAM. I know it's probably peanuts £££ but in the realm of production electronics, all those ££££ add up.