Iliad revolutionizes the fiber market in Italy , with many new features never seen before in offers of this type.
Let's start with the proprietary router , iliadbox , made entirely by Iliad, to ensure the best performance. Extremely low energy consumption, sophisticated design, mini-display to show QR-codes with which to connect to the network, and very high connection speeds.
The iliad fiber will be at least at 1 Gbit in download and 300 Mbit in upload (for 1.4 million real estate units, mainly in Turin, Milan and Bologna ), but for 6 million families (at the moment) it will be possible to reach up to 5 Gbit in download and 700 Mbit in upload in total . To check the coverage of your home and the relative maximum browsing speed, refer to the official iliad website.
But what does “5 Gbit total” mean? That in all the iliadbox will allow you to reach 5 Gbit on the total number of connected devices, not that a single one of these will be able to suck up all the bandwidth.
For example, you can connect a NAS to the router's 1 Gbit port, and that NAS will have 1 Gbit all to itself, not shared with others. In the end, adding the speed of the Ethernet ports and the Wi-Fi you can reach up to 5 Gbit, so that all connected devices have high speed, without congestion in case one of these exploits intensely the net.
Nothing forces you to use necessarily the iliad router , even if the third-party models compatible at the moment seem to be very few.
Not just hardware, however, but software as well. Iliad has developed an app, called iliadbox Connect , which with the convenience of a smartphone provides numerous services for users, including:
- Manage all devices connected to the fiber
- Check the network status and which devices use more bandwidth
- Share Wi-Fi access via QR-Code, even via email or SMS
- Plan access times to Wi-Fi, both in general and also for specific devices
- Create profiles for each member of the family, in order to regulate access to the network for each user (for example to limit the browsing hours of the children)
But we come to the costs of the iliad fiber offer. € 15.99 per month for Iliad users , € 23.99 per month for all others . However, nothing prevents you from subscribing first to the iliad fiber, and then to subsequently the mobile contract: just enter the required data in your personal area and from the following month you will have the discount on the fiber (read carefully this page about it). In any case, the installation of the iliad fiber has a one-off cost of € 39.99 . All with:
- Unlimited minutes
- Unlimited Internet
- Full Speed Forever
- No remodeling
- No hidden costs
For those with a particularly large home, iliad has also designed a Wi-Fi extender , to extend the signal beyond the normal range of the router, available at € 1.99 per month (but nothing prevents you from using third-party products).
- Protection for 5 devices (pc, Mac, smartphone and tablet)
- Blocking viruses and online threats
- Protection of smartphones from data theft and applications at risk
- Secure Password Management System
So what do you think of the iliad fiber offer? We are also talking about it in our Facebook group, join the discussion!
