AVM provides its routers with various free apps – users can also access FritzBox functions on their cell phones if they wish. The mobile applications of the Berlin company include the “FritzApp Fon” and the “FritzApp Smart Home”. While the Fon app turns the smartphone into a landline phone, the Smart Home app allows you to control smart AVM devices. Now there are updates for both applications – more precisely for the iOS version of “FritzApp Fon” and for the Android version of “FritzApp Smart Home”. These innovations are on board.
The best wireless routers
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Three WLAN radio units
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No ports for analog phones
No DSL, cable or fiber optic modem installed
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Suitable for gigabit cable connections (DOCSIS 3.1).
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Fast WiFi
Supports VDSL supervectoring
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Supports gigabit cable speed via DOCSIS 3.1
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Gigabit LAN sockets not fast enough for full gigabit speed
High power consumption
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Fast 5 gigahertz WiFi
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Small weaknesses at 2.4 gigahertz
USB ports lame
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High WiFi speed
Modem for VDSL super vectoring 35b
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Slightly short WiFi range
Just a USB port
AVM
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High 5 gigahertz speed at close range
Lots of features (including mesh)
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Partly short range with Wifi 6
Slow USB connection
Netgear
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Weaknesses in receiving data
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Netgear
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Fast 2.4 and 5 gigahertz WiFi
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Huawei
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Updates for FritzApp Fon and FritzApp Smart Home
The new iOS version 5.1.1 of the “FritzApp Fon” and the Android version 1.8.2. the “FritzApp Smart Home” are now available for download – both in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as well as at COMPUTER BILD. The updates bring these innovations:
“FritzApp Fon”: Version 5.1.1 for iOS
“FritzApp Smart Home”: Version 1.8.2 for Android
New: Triggering of boost and frost protection for the smart FritzDECT 301 radiator controller
Improvement: selection of dates in the statistics
Fixed: Renaming of smart home devices is also offered if users do not have configuration rights
Fixed: Unable to switch smart home devices when talkback is active
