25-06-2025 07:24 PM - edited 25-06-2025 07:26 PM
My partner has been working from home just fine making calls using HiHi communicator app on her work laptop until Monday morning 3 days ago when it started saying making calls was unavailable.
As a work around we used a hotspot to test and instantly worked so we knew it Was the router.
Managed to get a call with EE support but they couldn’t work out what the issue was and decided on sending a new router.
while waiting for the router I thought I would try the EE public WiFi (I’m sure I turned the routers WiFi off when we got the router so clearly a firmware upgrade re-enabled WiFi)
we live a good distance from any other EE customers in a rural location so knew it was our router with it enabled. Anyway getting connected to the public WiFi network EE logging in as a customer and hey presto calling through the HiHi app started working………
so why does it work on the public WiFi (not really something we want to do) and not on our normal network.
tested with WiFi disabled to se if the pesky EE network was causing a conflict but same result.
any help getting this work would be greatly appreciated.
25-06-2025 08:47 PM - edited 25-06-2025 08:49 PM
@Normalpeople What hub are you using from the link below! If not there is it a BT supplied older Smarthub2!
https://ee.co.uk/help/broadband/getting-started/compare-our-range-of-broadband-hubs
Different types of BT Hub | BT Help
25-06-2025 10:29 PM
Thanks for response EE Smart hub plus.
25-06-2025 11:36 PM - edited 25-06-2025 11:43 PM
@Normalpeople Well unless EE have really messed up and seriously dropped the ball, then the EE WiFi is NOT part of the transmitted wireless wi-fi, older 2023 and the BT Smarthub2 yes, but the + was a No No, but you just never know, there was a new FW update that was pushed out so will go get it from the OP posting and attach it underneath...
Edit:- As below also just checked as can see neighbours BT wireless on occasions and yes it is still pushed out from his router at present! Pretty sure he has the BT Smarthub2!
New firmware update on 23rd June 2025 in the middle of the night
App version: 2.36.9 (unchanged from above)
Firmware version: r3.8.11-R-1414606-PROD-83002
All these firmware changes and yet they still can't make it so you can change the names of devices in the router page like every other router