Just a heads up to anyone like me who has been transferred from BT to EE Broadband. I recently renewed my contract with BT and in the process was offered a new deal with EE. I didn't think much about this until I received a new router through the post. I thought naively, that it would be a clone of my previous BT Smart Hub 2. Its not and If you host your own VPN like me , you may experience some difficulties with the EE router. It appears that unlike the BT router, the EE one does not treat a DMZ port the same. It appears to block certain port traffic even in DMZ mode. This of course only matters if like me you are remotely accessing a home network. My VPN is facilitated by a Draytek router connected to the Smart Hub and for several years I have used two types of VPN, SSL & L2TP ipsec. With the EE hub, the SSL worked but the L2TP needed port forwarding to be enabled as well. (1701. 4500,500). The other thing that EE could do with addressing is the lack of a Save/Restore settings facility which is available with the BT Hub. Very useful if you need to change from default settings as I have!
