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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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Smart home devices won't connect to Hub

I have recently joined EE and everything seemed okay, until I started to connect my smart home items.Firstly, here is a list of the items I have:5 BG home double Smart SocketsA Broadlink RM4 Pro+ Universal Remote3 Status Smart Plugs3 Shelly Smart Wi-...

set up Smart hub 7 plus

trying to set up WiFi controls using the app and  Smart hub 7 plus.have just moved over from bt, the router is set up and connected and my speed is 1.0gb, which is all great ,But in order to fine tune you need to use the app, and every time it says t...

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obi-wan by Investigator
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Resolved! Log on to bt hub

I am trying to log into my Bt hub 2but tried using my EE app but it willnot par with the hub, the symbol just keepsspinning , and tried 192.168.1.254 & http://bthomehub.homebut safari saying connection is not secure

Resolved! landline

What are the disadvantages and financial implications of terminating rental of landline while retaining broadband?  Will it affect loyalty discounts on mobile rent?Please!

NJS1ST by Investigator
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Resolved! Forcing 2.4 or 5 GHz by device

Not long moved to EE, we have an EE Smart Hub Plus.We are seeing connection problems with one laptop, (older but not that old!), with the wifi dropping out, whereas a newer laptop is fine.  I managed to get the older laptop to connect at 2.4 GHz (by ...

Cliff_G by Skilled Contributor
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Resolved! BB speed very low

Over the last year or so, I've upgraded from 150 Mb/s to 500 & then to 1000 last month in an attempt to maintain satisfactory BB speed in, what I assume to be, periods of high system load. I've been testing every day for the last moth & speed frequen...

karis6197 by Established Contributor
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Daisy chain EE Smart wifi Plus extenders

Does anyone know how to daisy chain EE Smart wifi Plus extenders?I’m trying to extend our wifi coverage to the summerhouse at the far end of the garden. I’ve positioned one extender in the kitchen window and that is working fine, pale blue light and ...

EE router hidden QoS

HelloI believe the EE Router has hidden QoS which is built into the firmware. The EE hub believes that all the containers/VMs on one server are on one port (which I guess, technically they are) and so it throttles the speed of any one "device" to mak...