Fritz 1200

[Henrietta Naughton]

Thenew Wi-Fi 6 standard meets the needs of networks with the constantly increasing numbers of wireless devices. From smartphones, notebooks and speakers to 4K smart TVs: more and more devices are being used simultaneously on your Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi 6 optimally integrates every device into the home network, meaning you always have a reliable data connection.

The FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX supports Mesh Wi-Fi, meaning your videos, music and photos seamlessly reach every corner of your home, apartment or office. How does it work? The FRITZ! devices work together as part of a single network, communicating with each other and optimizing wireless devices and network usage.

Setting up the FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX is super easy: plug it in, press the button and the FRITZ!Repeater and FRITZ!Box or a WPS-enabled router connect automatically. The FRITZ!Repeater adopts the Wi-Fi settings and is ready for use immediately. The FRITZ!App WLAN helps you find the ideal position for your FRITZ!Repeater.

The FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX connects to the Wi-Fi of your FRITZ!Box and provides its own network: This gives you more Wi-Fi range, without any cables. With its gigabit LAN port, the repeater can integrate network-enabled devices without Wi-Fi into the home network e.g. a smart TV or a printer.

From the ideal placement to the optimum Wi-Fi channel: The repeater supports you with multi-colored LEDs, software wizards and a clear, user-friendly interface. The FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX also benefits from new features provided in free updates.

The FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX supports secure WPA2 encryption, as well as the new WPA3 standard. This allows the repeater to establish secure connections to modern routers and your Wi-Fi is well protected.

I have recently bought the AVM FRITZ!Repeater 1200 and successfully installed the stable 21.02 according to the device page instructions ( _fritz_repeater_1200).

However I had issues with the performance when using mesh.

Therefore I wanted to check out if WDS might be better with my setup as of now.

WDS is broken with the stable 21.02 (WDS Configuration on 21.02 - #27 by chadneufeld) and I therefore decided to flash 21.02 rc3 and keep the data.

Afterwards the devide was responding very slowly (via webportal and sssh) and I decided to perform a soft reset.

Since then I can't access the device via ssh nor web gui and when pinging 192.168.1.1 I can see that some packages are dropped, while the higher percentage pings back.

I believe I might have run into this bug:

I have tried the following things: in failsafe it does not respons at all to pings to 192.168.1.1 (could it have a different ip?)

I can get it to boot the u-boot (first step of the instruction), but it then doesn't wait for the new image in tftp, but instead boots the broken image again.

I tried again with the recover tool from AVM and this time also had real time protection from Windows Defender off. I also confirmed a pop up asking if I would like activate LAN discovery on that network.

Eventually the recovery was successful and I can now properly access the AVM firmware.

However I am now struggling to reinstall OpenWrt. I can never ping 192.168.178.1 during boot (192.168.178.2 responds to the ping eventually as expected). Therefore I am not able to boot the u-boot as stated in the instruction.

Could this be due to a very new AVM firmware (7.27)? I am not sure which one was installed at the beginning.

I found out, that the repeater is available under 192.168.1.1 for some seconds during the boot process instead of 192.168.178.1.

I therefore used the eva_ramboot.py on that ip instead and then could get it boot the initramfs image from tftp and I followed the instruction and now I am back with OpenWrt 21.02 on my repeater

I'd love to see this repeaters working, since they are very affordable and the hardware looks quite good. Power consumption seems to be nice as well... and you could probably put 2-3 of them in place instead of a more powerful devices with better antennas.

You can test if VLANs are supported with "swconfig dev switch0 help" (see vlans: 128) and the current Switch0 config with swconfig dev switch0 show (see the lines with "VLAN" at the very end of the output).

Is this already contained in 19.07.4 release?

I tried to install the Nightly Snapshot but it does not start the luci webinterface which makes things a little bit complicated as I would have to do all configuration stuff via ssh only.

I can confirm that VLANs are working on AVM 1200. It justs works, no complicated switch setup is necessary as suggested above or described in other threads. It is also possible to create multiple wireless networks on each radio which does not work for all devices.

For each VLAN I created a eth0.XXX interface (protocol: unmanaged). Next I created one or two wireless networks (2,4 and or 5GHz) for each VLAN. In the final step I created bridges to bind the wireless networks to the bridges.

I would recommend to keep one additional wireless network as management network which has DHCP server enabled. Otherwise I could happen that due to some mistake in VLAN setup you get locked out. It's quite complicated to reset the AVM1200.

Just in case any one else needs it, this is my config with one fallback device for fallback WIFI + 4 VLAN interfaces just for pass through from VLAN to wireless. The pass though interfaces do not need an IP except one which is set as DHCP client to retrieve an IP from the central router.

De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 biedt razendsnel WiFi met snelheden tot 866 Mbit/s op de 5 GHz frequentieband en 400 Mbit/s op de 2,4 GHz frequentieband, gelijktijdig. Dat betekent surfplezier zonder laadbalkjes, snelle downloads en HD-video's zonder uitval, of je nu binnen of buiten bent. Via de Gigabit LAN-aansluiting kunnen ook apparaten zonder eigen WiFi-functionaliteit in het thuisnetwerk worden gentegreerd. Klein en compact past deze repeater op elke contactdoos!

Met de FRITZ!Repeater 1200 kunnen stabiele en snelle WiFi-verbindingen worden bereikt met snelheden tot 866 Mbit/s op de 5 GHz frequentieband en 400 Mbit/s op de 2,4 GHz frequentieband, gelijktijdig. Via de Gigabit LAN-aansluiting kunnen ook netwerkapparaten zonder eigen WiFi-functionaliteit in het thuisnetwerk worden gentegreerd. De repeater is geschikt voor gebruik met normale 230V-contactdozen. Dankzij het kleine formaat past de FRITZ!Repeater 1200 op elke contactdoos!

De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 biedt op de 5 GHz frequentieband razendsnel WiFi met snelheden tot 866 Mbit/s en maximale reikwijdte. Dat betekent surfplezier zonder laadbalkjes, snelle downloads en HD-video's zonder uitval, of je nu binnen of buiten bent. Minder snelle WiFi apparaten zullen gebruik maken van de 2,4 GHz frequentieband zodat snellere WiFi apparaten altijd de maximale snelheid kunnen behalen.

De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 ondersteunt de ongecompliceerde, automatische aanmelding via de zogenaamde WPS-methode (WiFi Protected Setup). Voor het instellen volstaat een druk op de knop: repeater en WPS-compatibele routers zoals de FRITZ!Box maken dan automatisch verbinding. De repeater neemt de passende WiFi-instellingen over en is meteen gereed voor gebruik.

Met zijn Gigabit LAN-aansluiting integreert de FRITZ!Repeater 1200 zelfs netwerkapparaten zonder WiFi in het thuisnetwerk. De repeater overbrugt daarbij draadloos de afstand tot de router; iets waarvoor vroeger kabels moesten worden getrokken. En als er al kabels liggen, kan de repeater ook in de modus LAN-brug via een aanwezige netwerkkabel of met behulp van een Powerline-adapter worden verbonden met de router. Zo kunnen ook grotere afstanden probleemloos worden overbrugd.

De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 ondersteunt de veilige WPA2-versleuteling en beheerst tevens de WPA-standaard. Daardoor kan de repeater worden gebruikt met vele types draadloze netwerken en alle versleutelingen.

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De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX is gemakkelijk te installeren: in het stopcontact steken, op de knop drukken en de FRITZ!Repeater en FRITZ!Box of WPS-compatibele router worden automatisch met elkaar verbonden. De FRITZ!Repeater neemt de juiste Wi-Fi-instellingen over en is meteen gebruiksklaar. FRITZ!App WLAN helpt je om de optimale plaats voor de FRITZ!Repeater te vinden.

De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX maakt verbinding met het Wi-Fi-netwerk van je FRITZ!Box en stelt een eigen netwerk beschikbaar: zo krijg je een groter Wi-Fi-bereik, zonder dat er kabels aan te pas komen. Met de gigabit-LAN-aansluiting integreert de repeater netwerkapparaten zonder Wi-Fi in het thuisnetwerk, bijvoorbeeld een smart-tv of een printer.

Van ideale plaatsing tot het optimale Wi-Fi-kanaal: de repeater helpt je daar een handje bij door middel van meerkleurige ledindicatie, softwarewizards en een overzichtelijke gebruikersinterface. Bovendien profiteert de FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX van nieuwe functies door gratis updates.

De FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX ondersteunt de beveiligde WPA2-versleuteling en de nieuwe standaard WPA3. Daardoor kan de repeater beveiligde verbindingen met Wi-Fi-netwerken van actuele routers tot stand brengen n is je Wi-Fi-netwerk optimaal beschermd.

Der neue Standard Wi-Fi 6 (WLAN AX) trgt der stetig wachsenden Zahl an WLAN-Gerten Rechnung. Von Smartphones, Notebooks und Lautsprechern bis hin zu 4K-Smart-TVs werden immer mehr Gerte gleichzeitig im WLAN verwendet. Wi-Fi 6 bindet jedes Gert optimal ins Heimnetz ein, sodass stets eine zuverlssige Datenverbindung besteht.

Damit Videos, Musik und Fotos im Heimnetz nahtlos bis in den letzten Winkel jedes Zimmers gelangen, setzt der FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX auf WLAN Mesh. Die verteilten FRITZ!-Gerte arbeiten in einem einzigen Netz, tauschen sich untereinander aus und optimieren die Leistung aller WLAN-Gerte.

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