Fritz!Box

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Fritz!Box, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Hard to know which IPsec encryption settings the router expects2025-06-29
Can't find how to change the fritz.box DNS domain in settings2024-04-21
Router silently changes static IP settings that the user had configured and tested2023-02-09
No factory reset option without plugging in a phone handset2021-01-13