In reply to a post by countryman69:

... all those ££££ add up.

... and are blown away by the subsequent support issues

Finally stopped the reboots by pressing my old Openreach VDSL modem into service and connecting to LAN1 (changing the connection to "via an external modem" in the Fritz!Box settings).

No reboots for 18 hours now so fingers crossed!

Also you're right in that you cannot roll back from a beta if you have the Zen provided 7530 - the roll back process stops and says something along the lines of "found provider specific firmware, please contact your provider for help" with the only option available being to exit the process.

As a former poster on here, my wife finally got Zen to cough to a 'loan' router, arrived today and has been running for an hour (zero instructions or documentation, just figure it out yourselves). It's a non-ax 7530 but on 7.59, so I've disabled updates and hope it will resolve the problem for now. It doesn't seem to allow connections to any of the AVM mesh repeaters I have though (a 1200 and 3000 which worked before ok).

So far I've had a stable connection for a whole hour, which is better than most days recently. They also sent a micro-filter to move to the test socket which I refuse to do as this has wasted more than enough of my time and energy.

I've also arranged to switch providers as Zen were utterly useless in supporting this, I last spoke to them on Saturday and the response was 'just wait for a fix to the OS', they didn't want to send the loan router out at all. It's been a frustrating and costly period, I'll also now have to re-sell the mesh nodes as they'll be useless on the new ISP/router combo.

In reply to a post by steve87001:

I'd definitely recommend keeping your 7530 at version 7.59 until the problem with 8.00 is fixed.

I bought a Fritzbox 7530 from eBay for family (wanted the integrated VoIP functionality), and it was - like I suspect most of those sold on eBay in the UK - a 'Zen Internet edition' (i.e. Zen provided) router, though it's being used with a different ISP.

Thankfully I turned the firmware auto-updates off, which was fortuitous else I'd have been dealing with (or rather failing to deal with!) this issue from afar - not least because it seems that with a 'Zen edition' Fritzbox it's not possible to roll back the firmware as it's customised.

I think you missed the point The load remains at 80% when no DSL is connected, as DSL is not in use on that router. SInce there's no data transfer taking place via that interface (and the interface is powered from the line anyway), and consequently no or neglibible processing, then this whole "load" appears a bs.

In reply to a post by steve87001:

it's not possible to roll back the firmware as it's customised.

It is, you use the recover.exe from AVM website which blasts the 'current' firnware on, but you use wayback machine to get an archive version of the page with an old one on it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230607133456/https://d...

Edited by Glenn2 (Wed 23-Oct-24 17:39:05)

Tried that (using WayBack machine) but the recovery always results in an error saying to contact my service provider for help as a custom firmware has been loaded (with no option other than to exit the recovery process).

As posted earlier, resorted to digging out my old Openreach VDSL modem and bypassing the in built modem altogether - getting on for 24h without a reboot.

My replacement 7530 was just as bad, so they are sending an AX to get here on Friday.

If I stream a film through wired, to 3000 repeater, wireless to 7530, it reboots every 30-60 minutes.

If I stream wireless to a 3000 repeater, wireless to 7530, it reboots every 5-6 minutes.

If I insert an extension into the low voltage side of the power supply, it reboots regularly (I discovered this a long time ago).

It appears the 7530 was on the edge, and is now over the edge of it's performance capability. I wonder if the bloat contained in the special Zen firmware helps to tip this fine balance (compared to unmodified 7530s that AVM will have tested).

Trouble is.....you need a PC!

That's interesting - I have a Zen 7530 and those recovery programs work fine on mine. I think maybe once it's had OpenWRT on it, as mine has, the Zen-ness is removed and it becomes a standard one. Oh well.