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Ongoing WiFi problems after switch from BT Broadband

Keiffy1964
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About 5 weeks ago we switched from BT to EE for our Broadband and TV. Starting to regret that decision. We were sent a new router, a new TV box and 3 WiFi plus boxes. This is the same equipment we had with BT for many years. Over this period we hardly had any issues and I was always able to speak to someone if I wanted.  Oh how have things changed!!. We've been having ongoing problems and it is impossible to speak to anyone! When you phone them, you just get connected to a fault Bot and you end up in a loop. I've started to keep a record of the issues but generally the same problem. Over the last ten days, our WiFi has gone off during the night on six occasions. On the following mornings, nothing connects to the internet. The connection to the Ring doorbell, our thermostat, the TV, all our mobile devices, our work computers drops over the previous night. Weirdly, you don't realize initially because the router remains blue. The TV has an error IPC6023. Our phones advise that there's no Internet despite also stating that that we have an excellent signal. Unplugging the router and plugging it back in generally solves the issue but I shouldn't have to do this every other day! I've raised a complaint now but not holding my breathe. Starting to think that EE's equipment is substandard compared to BT.

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Ksnowy8
Visitor

Hi. Have you been able to resolve this with EE?

I have an ongoing fault and still in my cooling off period. Our BT equipment worked fine but with the new EE hub it lags terribly and doesn’t maintain a stable connection. We have had a replacement hub, an engineer and now an open reach appointment booked which they have randomly just cancelled with no real explanation. I am on the verge of cancelling but have no idea if they will be able to fix this. Interested to hear if you have resolved your problem 

JimM11
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@Keiffy1964 It may be worth trying to change the wi-fi 6 mode of the EE router to see if it is causing your problem? Default is AX performance. Can you also advise what type of connection you have to your home, FTTP or older FTTC if you know, the router is generally not as good as your previous and EE are working on it which does not help customers who are having issues. 

Desbob40
Visitor

We are having the same problems, had BT for 6 years, hardly any issues switched to EE full fibre and the WiFi is rubbish. It will randomly disconnect devices and not reconnect them. We have 2 works with Google clocks that we cannot use as the router disconnects them after a few hours and we have to go through the set up process all over again so have given up. Last night the router randomly disconnected all devices and wouldn't reconnect them unless we rebooted the router this happened twice. Walk outside with a phone and it will disconnect from WiFi even though it was showing full signal.

Definitely think these EE routers don't work properly 

Patssy
Visitor

This has happened to me. I switched yesterday and lost all of the above

Swordfishradio
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Top tip, contact BT instead of EE, they are crossed trained (mostly) and will actually help you.

Dont bother with EE Twitter, they are absolutely appalling. BT Twitter help is marginally better.

I contacted BT to terminate my mother-in-law's telephone account as she moved into a care home. I was then told I could switch to an EE router to reduce my bill. My BT kit worked fine but not the EE kit. I have full fibre into my home so no bottle necks. My understanding (which may be wrong)  is that EE and BT work in partnership with BT providing the technology/kit and EE simply being the customer facing front end. The EE router seems to be faulty. Was anyone else encouraged by BT to switch to EE?

XRaySpeX
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JimM11
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@ColinLiv If you still have your BT router you can put it back on, both will work on the service.

Hi JimM11.

i have the same issues as the above. Nothing wrong with any of my BT equipment and then had to switch to EE when my contract renewed. Openreach Engineer came out 2 days ago to install new routers and booster in exactly the same place in the house as the BT equipment. It worked for the first hour after he’d gone, then very intermittent saying ‘no internet connection’ for most of the time since. Rebooted/unplugged etc all day yesterday and phoned BT last night where they talked me through trying different things including checking booster was ok and doing factory reset on the hub in case it was a ‘hardware issue’. All worked fine for about an hour and then the same problems again. I work from home and lost almost a day’s work time yesterday as my laptop kept failing to connect to workplace connection and no internet. ( I had taken ages changing my phone/sonos/alexa/laptops etc onto the new broadband password etc).  You mention that IF I were to just disconnect all the rubbish EE equipment and reconnect my BT equipment ( and obviously change the passwords back etc), that I can just carry on using the existing BT kit? Please can you just confirm that will work and they haven’t ’switched off’ my BT router at source etc, as that sounds like a perfect solution to me? I cannot face yet another hour on the phone of troubleshooting and cannot afford to lose any more work time over this issue? Thanks a lot, Tracey