2 week review of EE 1.6gbs

[Bluenose_Dave]

Having been on the new 1.6gb/s service now for 2 weeks, and here are my views,

i have the EE new smart router plus and 3 extenders, first off i know the EE smart hub plus only has 1gb LAN ports, speeds have been ok and stable WIFI rangers from about 650-820  what is not bad, i m running with them hardwired with a lan to them, i know WiFi 6 max speeds are 1200 but rarely get them in the real world 

this package feels like it been rushed out, my reason for saying this are,  openreach engineers laptops have 1gb Ethernet ports so they are unable to check speeds from ONT or any other Speedtest at your home if you are on the 1.6gbs package

the EE router having only 1gb LAN, also it comes with a cat 5e cable, this cat of cable does up to 1gb, so if you are on 1.6gb/s you will need to get a new Ethernet lead to connected the smart hub plus to the ONT

all the WiFi features like work and game mode and WiFi controls dont work, it say page not found, i have heard that the WiFi enhanced feature has been turn off so the team can look at it and fix it as it affecting a lot of users and should be back after a month, i am unable to check speed via the router page this time it asking for me to make an EE account

speeds and connection has been stable and good, but i did have a lot of issues getting the service

i know of people who have bought a 3rd party router so they can get full access to the raw 1.6gbs speeds, and they are having no issues on speeds as router has 2.5gb LAN on them unlike the EE smart hub plus

i have bought a usbc to 2.5gb Ethernet adapter so i can test the raw speeds at the ONT, plus if openreach do need to test speeds at my home they will be able too

so in short i hope you can see why i think this package has been rushed out from the fact openreach dont have the kit to test speeds at the customer home, to all the issues with the new smart hub plus

[garetc]

Hopefully that's just a misinformed CSO, they were due to launch until tomorrow. 

It might be worth waiting and seeing if they do go live tomorrow. 

[timprocter]

@garetc 

I agree, the help desks don't know their right from their left 90% of the time.

[Bluenose_Dave]

Plus I’m guessing that 1.6 gb users first so maybe date given as November being for the rest of the users being able to get it, and 1 department not knowing what the other knows

[gmbuspunk]

hopefully not true and just a clever marketing ploy to get me off the scent is it true the red cable with the router is only capble of 1gbps and is cat5e from the ont

[timprocter]

@gmbuspunk 

All you need to know in this video here. 

These routers can only output 1Gb via cable as you already know, Wireless 1.6Gb speeds can reach higher speeds as I found out using my iPhone 15 Pro Max inches away from my TP-Link BE19000. 🙂

[Bluenose_Dave]

The cable will do higher speeds as it only usually as short distance from router to the  ONT

[AHarMan2]

Definitely not true.

I was using the EE smart hub 3/3+ , now using an TP-Link Archer GE800 and the cat 5e supplied with EE router makes no difference at such short distances.

[gmbuspunk]

Definitely not true.

I was using the EE smart hub 3/3+ , now using an TP-Link Archer GE800 and the cat 5e supplied with EE router makes no difference at such short distances.

Reply:

I swapped it out for a cat 8 anyway and this has drastically improved úpload speed

[gmbuspunk]

All you need to know

These routers can only output 1Gb via cable as you already know, Wireless 1.6Gb speeds can reach higher speeds as I found out using my iPhone 15 Pro Max inches away from my TP-Link BE19000. 🙂

Reply:

Never relised the iphone 15 promax was capble of them speeds mums got that i got the s24 ultra í used to be apple all the time but now im samsung through and theough the only thing is the payment softwere is not as good on the wearbles

Stupid question how do u record your screen

[Bluenose_Dave]

All the new iPhone 16 and 16 Pro have WiFi 7 what is  tempting me