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EE Hub firmware versions

We regularly update your Smart Hub to keep your broadband secure, stable, and performing at its best, often adding new features and behind-the-scenes fixes.   Hub nameModelLatest firmware versionNotesSmart Hub 6 PlusSH30Ar3.8.30 Smart Hub 6 PlusSH31B...

James_B by EE Community Manager
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Top Tips for pairing your WiFi Extenders to the Smart Hub 7 Pro

We’ve seen a few customers asking for help pairing their extenders wirelessly with their Smart Hub 7 Pro. We haven’t been able to confirm a fault, but if you need some more help, there’s a reliable workaround that usually gets things connected first ...

Chrissy_G by EE Knowledge Specialist
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Google Pixel 8 WiFi issues?

We're aware of reports from Google Pixel 8 users who are having difficulties connecting their phones to the new Smart Hub 7 Plus. When trying to connect your Pixel 8 to the hub's WiFi, you may find that it fails to connect at all, or connects very br...

James_B by EE Community Manager
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Need Help with Your Home Broadband Speed or Connection?

To effectively help you with any Broadband speed or connection issues we would need to see some hard data about your line after carrying out a few short tests for starters, which will enable us to diagnose the problem and advise you further.   Using ...

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XRaySpeX by EE Community Star
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Changing Your WiFi Password on a Smart Hub

You may have seen in the News that some ISPs have had a security breach whereby their users' routers WiFi passwords have been hacked. You might want to change the WiFi password of your EE Smart Hub router in case a similar attack is made against EE's...

XRaySpeX by EE Community Star
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No service

Hi,Good Morning i have just moved to southall UB1 *** from Uxbridge UB10 *** we had told EE about moving home every day they are giving us lame  excuses and lies  that the broadband is going to start but they are not starting it but the same old sto...

Joshida7 by Visitor
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Waiting for openreach or should I switch to virgin

I moved into my new flat 2 weeks ago and placed an order for 900 broadband 9 days ago. Everything is already installed from openreach and from what I can see it's just a case of send me the router and switch me on as the ONT is installed. Now it seem...

Openreach failed to install

After waiting a month for my install, the engineer came and said it would need a site visit, ground works and then a further install. He suggested at least another three weeks. I took a day off work for this appointment and my current supplier contra...

ONT by Explorer
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Poor Broadband Signal

I work from home and use a printer attached remotely to my computer. Since changing to EE I have had nothing but problems connecting the PC to the the printer with the signal cutting out  several times a day and cancelling the print job. Costing me a...

How to Rename Devices in EE Smart Hub Page?

Just been moved from BT to EE and it's not obvious how to rename devices on the hub manager page.  This was easily done on BT SH2.I just mostly get a bunch of MAC addresses as the name.I can rename them in the EE app, but sadly that does carry over t...

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imacken by Established Contributor
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Resolved! Why is the broadband dying at night?!

I’d like to know what rat you have running on wheels in the back of your factories, because why does the broadband die EVERY SINGLE NIGHT?! It’s taking the **bleep** and you’re going to either help me fix it or I’ll get another service provider. 

BTversus EE costs

Last year I was encouraged to move from BT to EE, my fibre broadband is £50 a month, but if I switched to BT it would be about £29, anyone else got caught out like this, or managed to lower EE costs

Caer_luel by Investigator
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Speed checker hanging in app

 Hi all.‘Moved’ to EE yesterday from BT and alas the BT app no longer works.  That’s a shame because the EE app is flakey so what an odd thing for a company to do - move you to something worse.Anyhow when I run the speed checker it just hangs at the ...

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ngood77 by Visitor
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Highly unstable Wifi

My wifi has been unstable for a few months now, I get high packet loss and network jittering. I have called up multiple times to EE and they have "sent" engineers to fix it the fault but it is never fixed. They have also tried factory resetting the r...