Never heard of euro routers but anything tainted with the name Amazon doesn’t get my vote. Plus eero will quite happily log your details according to the CNET review..


Some of that data includes personal data from the app, like your email and device IP addresses, but the company draws some lines with how that information gets used.

Not for me.

In reply to a post by cjn:

both require a sign-uo with Amazon to configure the router.

Barmy, utterly barmy. This is very much dumb consumer oriented market positioning and not the approach I would expect from a top flight ISP. Perhaps Zen are looking to change their market position?

I agree. It is one of the most mind-numbingly stupid decisions I've ever come across.

IP change is only in order to use ftp. Recovery works fine without manual change - recovery software does all the necessary changes automatically.

Have a look at this

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/08/broadb...

And read the comments. Rather worrying...

Indeed. The lack of a USB port is another no-no for me since it means no dongle ie no backup means to access the internet if anyone digs through the fibre.

Zen/AVM seem to be making very slow progress in sorting this out.

Edited by countryman69 (Sun 03-Nov-24 12:27:21)

In reply to a post by DFScale:

Looking at how this rumbles on and on and on, I am just wondering. Everybody and his dog must have a few spare routers lying around. Why don't people have an old router configured for their current service and pop it in when something like this happens?

I am lucky in that I do have a spare router which I could configure to work. I did have a saved config but it was very out of date. My Fritzbox 7530 is in a drawer for the time being.

Most of this has been on Zen's website for some months. Nothing seems to have moved on.

Pre-register for Full Fibre 2Gbps

Thanks - I couldn't find it, starting from the home page.

It's not the world's best website.

As a recently retired network engineer, I just can't get my head round the idea of a router with a 2.5 Gps WAN port and only a single 1Gps LAN port.

I guess they're assuming that most home users will be largely using WiFi, but for this kind of money I'd be expecting users with large houses and probably Infrastructure mode APs around their property. Not to mention NASes and media servers etc.

Must be aimed at the very non-techy end of the customer demographic I guess.

I did. I missed one of the backdoor update routes and so it is now FUBAR and on v8. In the process of getting an old but very cheap PC laptop so I can do NewMoon's solution to rollback.

As at the beginning of this merry saga it was all a bit frenetic this end, I did have one of my two 7530's using a mobile dongle and getting access to the internet that way. I couldn't recall whether or not it was on v8 although I had a strong suspicion. It was.

So here's the thing...that standard 7530 running v8.0 was perfectly stable using the dongle. So what do folks make of that ? I know Zen explored the possibility of the issue being in the DSL code by getting us to try rolling back to the previous DSL module but it made no difference.

So what else can it be other than the 7530 not capable now of running v8.0 and having to spend CPU cycles handling the DSL side is the last straw ?

Edited by countryman69 (Sun 03-Nov-24 17:31:21)