(No) Mesh Connection: FRITZ!Mesh Set 1700 with FRITZ!Box 7530
(No) Mesh Connection: FRITZ!Mesh Set 1700 with FRITZ!Box 7530 Does it work for you? OK - nothing to see here. For me, however, it took quite some time, and manuals, error messages, or FAQs did not help at all. This came as a surprise, as AVM products had never disappointed me before. OK, let’s start. Repeaters unboxed, first one plugged in “Use the app,” they said Went through all the steps, but in the end it kept telling me something like “everything is fine, just be patient a little longer,” and then it failed - without any diagnostics at all OK, try the WPS connect approach (which should really be simple, right???) - blinking lights, no success The FAQ says: Check that you have the latest OS. Enable 5 GHz. Make both SSIDs the same. Not helpful. Just to make sure, I grabbed an unused FRITZ!Box 7590, configured it as a repeater, and sure enough - that worked. So it wasn't me, nor my Fritz!Box (or so I thought). Asked ChatGPT. It mentioned problems with the current FRITZ!OS (OK?). ...
