06-11-2025 12:04 AM - edited 06-11-2025 12:13 AM
With my previous Fibre supplier I replaced their own router with a Nest WiFi Pro as soon as they were released.
A few months later, I changed to the EE fibre 900 package. Due to my own lazyness, when it was activated I setup the EE Smart Hub Plus that came with it meaning to eventually switch over to the Nest WiFi Pro but never got round to it.
Now I'm at a point where I wonder if it's worth switching, or just selling the Nest WiFi Pro.
Has anybody here used both with their fibre package and can give me any info as to wether the Nest would be better than the Smart Hub Plus, or if I should just stick with it and sell the Nest?
06-11-2025 12:19 AM - edited 06-11-2025 12:23 AM
The EE Smart Wifi Pro does not mesh with the EE Smart Hub Plus.
You have got the wrong Smart WiFi extenders. The Smart WiFi Pro (SW40J) is meant for the EE Smart Hub Pro (SH40J).
For the Smart Hub Plus (SH30A, SH31B or SH32B), of Set up your Home Broadband EE Router, you need the Smart WiFi Plus (SW30A), of Setting up Smart WiFi.
What else do you wanna know about them? Your enquiry is woefully brief.
EDIT: Now that you've edited your post to take on some meaning it is a horse of a diff complexion!
06-11-2025 09:00 AM - edited 06-11-2025 09:01 AM
The Nest WiFi Pro is arguably an 'older' device in terms of the chipsets/components etc. as it's been on the market for longer.
Some other notable differences: -
| What | EE Smarthub Plus | Google Nest Pro | What it means |
| WiFi 6E (6GHz) - Fronthaul | No | Yes | If you have WiFi 6E/7 devices then they can make use of an extra high speed 6GHz wireless band with the Google device. This is fast, but has relatively poor range. |
| WiFi 6E - Backhaul | No | Yes | If you have Extenders i.e. multiple Nest units or EE Smart WiFi Plus, then the Nest devices will 'talk' to each other using 6GHz (see above). The EE extenders will talk to the hub using 5GHz instead, which means better range between hub and extender depending on your positioning i.e. the Nest devices might need to be closer to each other. |
| Web-based interface | Yes | No | The Nest devices have to be managed via the Google Home app; the EE devices can be managed via a web browser or the EE App. The Google app is probably the more 'refined' app experience. |
| 160MHz bandwidth on 5GHz | Yes | No | I don't think the Nest devices support 160MHz channel bandwidth on 5GHz in the UK. If so, the 5GHz speed/throughput (where most of your WiFi devices are likely to connect) will typically be ~twice as fast with the EE hub. |
| Parental Controls | Yes | Yes | It's been a while since I messed around with a Google router but I suspect the EE parental controls are more granular/fully featured compared to the Google equivalent. |
There's some other stuff but these are the main things I can think of. Unless you're really partial to the 6GHz element, then I'd probably stick with the EE kit - particularly if you're not experiencing any problems with it.