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

[Bluenose_Dave]

Nice one garetc. Royal Mail is saying tomorrow for mine

[garetc]

I'm getting 1400Mbps on the satellite node one room away in a 1910 built house with very thick walls. It's actually out performing  the Orbi 973, I used to get 1100Mbps on via the satellite with exactly the same placement. 

I'm testing using my S24U as the iPhone 16 Pro Max can't utilise the 320MHz band on WiFi 7 and fast.com. I know Fast has a tendency to inflate the numbers but my home server is offline due to contractors being in to refinish the wood floors downstairs.

 

[cliffy37]

Still waiting for despatch email from Ee. Getting proper hacked off with there incompetence has the same texts as everyone else about preparing for despatch at the B same time. 

[Woggy]

Delivery for mine tomorrow according to Royal Mail, so hopefully will see yours soon 

[TonsOfFun]

I'm in the same boat, but a rag next gen team only the week before and I was like 1800 in the list so depends on when you requested it. 

Guessing the text is universal to all on the list and and slowly working the way up shopping manually. 

Not in a rush for mine as I have a decent router already but it's nice to see they are finally ready and being shipped/received to people 

[Bluenose_Dave]

Royal Mail tracker update for me it now ready for delivery today up to 7:30pm. So it the parcel man in a van delivery 

[TonsOfFun]

Garetc is wired or wireless backhaul?

[gmbuspunk]

Myne arrived today and guess what 1.6gbps was achived on the first test ee are really beyond the joke that was even with low battry and they didnt even put the correct name on the parcel

[garetc]

I think they were manually sending them out because my name wasn't capitalised correctly on the packing labels.

But the positive is that you have it now and it's working well! 😀

[gmbuspunk]

I do but ee wont be hearing the end of it there more mess haha but finnally a product that workz