The Stiftung Warentest is the German equivalent of the Spanish OCU (Consumer and User Organisation) and carries a lot of weight with our northern neighbor thanks to its rigor and objectivity. This entity also conducts tests with various products to give them a well-founded assessment this generally helps consumers to be able to distinguish in a simple and clear way whether they are facing a quality product or not. AVM products have passed many of its tests in recent decades.

To give a little more context, Stiftung Warentest was founded in 1964 and is a German consumer organization. dedicated to researching and comparing products and services in an unbiased way. It is known for its exhaustive and sophisticated quality tests and participation in major international consumer support networks such as ICRT, BEUC and ANEC.

This time it was the FRITZ!Box 7590 AX, FRITZ!Box 7530 AX and FRITZ!Box 6690 routers, three models that shared the test round with five other devices. Experts from Stiftung Warentest, which conducted these tests, gave a general quality rating “good” to those three routers that also achieved the rating “very good” in the specific handling, security and telephony categories. They were the only three products in the comparison to achieve these distinctions.

In terms of energy efficiency, the FRITZ!Box 7530 AX offered the lowest power consumption of all the devices evaluated in this edition, and by far, because it barely reached 6 watts in active modei.e. less than an LED bulb, a truly impressive fact that makes it one of the most efficient devices in its category.

The FRITZ!Repeater 6000 and FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX also passed the Stiftung Warentest tests. This entity tested a total of ten Wi-Fi Mesh systemstechnology that allows you to extend the range of wireless networks by combining routers, Wi-Fi repeaters and PLC adapters with a Wi-Fi repeater creating a mesh network.

AVM’s FRITZ!Repeater 6000 and FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX received a quality rating of “good” and a score of 2.0, the best in the tests. This is quite a recognition, but it was also emphasized by the technicians of Stiftung Warentest “When tested, these two repeater solutions from AVM proved to be the best.”

Experts also emphasized that, unlike other systems, FRITZ!Repeaters offer an automatic update function, which has a positive impact on security and is very important when it comes to Wi-Fi network protection. Last but not least, he received the FRITZ!Repeater 1200 AX and a special mention because of its “especially cheap” price in an exhaustive analysis by Stiftung Warentest.