Faced with very aggressive competition which offers ever more efficient boxes each year, Free decides to upgrade its Freebox Pop by including one of the most recent WiFi standards: WiFi 6. Thanks to this initiative, subscribers who choose the Freebox Pop will be able to benefit from a much faster download rate!
WiFi 6 is available in the Freebox Pop
You had planned to abandon your ISP to subscribe to a Freebox offer? It’s time to make the switch to a Freebox Pop subscription, because Free now offers the Wi-Fi 6one of the fastest wireless standards currently available in France.
With WiFi 6, you benefit from several advantages that will change the way you browse the internet, play online and download:
- The downflow is 40% faster than the previous standard, the theoretical flow increases to 9.6 Gbpsa nice improvement compared to WiFi 6 which had a theoretical throughput of 3.5 Gbit/s maximum.
- A reduction of 75% latency for online gaming, your wireless connection will perform better and approximate an experience similar to an Ethernet cable or powerline connection.
- the Beamforming (spatial filtering) is part of it, WiFi 6 improves this technology enormously. As a reminder, Beamforming makes it possible to concentrate the broadcasting of data towards a specific device which is using the bandwidth. This avoids streaming data in a direction that is not needed.
here are the main advantages WiFi 6. We thought that Free would never offer this standard on the Freebox (as the ISP went directly to WiFi 6E for its Freebox Delta), but finally, it’s done!
The good news is that the Server Pop in WiFi 6 will be systematically sent to new subscriptions which will be validated from today. For those who wish to migrate from a Freebox Pop with WiFi 5 to a Freebox Pop with WiFi 6, the migration will be available before 2023 on the subscriber area in the “My subscription” category.
For the moment, no date has been communicated by Free.
As often, Xavier Niel’s ISP adds something new without price increase. The Freebox Pop subscription remains at the price of €29.99/month for the first year then €39.99/month thereafter. The offer continues to include:
- Fiber up to 5 Gbit/s downlink, 700 Mbit/s uplink.
- A WiFi Pop repeater included on request (shipping costs to be paid)
- A Pop Player compatible with 4K HDR Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
- 100 hours of free cloud recording
- Canal+ Series free for 1 year then automatically stops beyond that
- Apple TV+ free for 3 months then €4.99/month
- Unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles in mainland France, overseas departments and certain destinations abroad. More than 110 destinations include free calls to landlines!
- An additional reduction on the Free Mobile offer, it is no longer €15.99 with the traditional Freebox advantage, but €9.99.
- Access to the Free Ligue 1 app available on the App Store
The Freebox Pop offer is clearly one of the most interesting among what French ISPs are currently offering, the addition of WiFi 6 comes to beef up the already very attractive subscription.
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