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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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EE Smart Hub Pro 7 not port forwarding correctly

I've set up a static IP for my PC and forward 44274 but it remains closed and I can't access it. I've never had an issue port forwarding on any other router, including the BT Smart Hub 2 which was replaced when I moved to EE Fibre 900. I even tried e...

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mrhuk by Contributor
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Resolved! Broadband customer- customer service??

Since both the app and site is down for what I guess is planned maintenance with zero notification, and we can’t even access our online bills how on earth are we supposed to contact customer service????? Is there a magic number for them? I have broad...

kc1174 by Visitor
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Broadband bill increase???

So I recently switched my full fibre broadband from Plusnet to EE. My service went live on 02/03/26 and i paid my first bill on 11/03/26. 2 days before this, on 09/03/26 I received an email from EE saying my broadband bill would be going up?  I expec...

Mufc1984 by Investigator
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Broadband speed

I just upgraded to 500 core a few days ago, and every time I've done a speed test, it's around the 180-210 mbps mark The same speed i was already getting before i upgraded, is there a problem or does it take a few days for the router to update? 

Resolved! Home broadband

We were originally with BT whole system with 4 Wi-Fi extender discs , one of which was hard wired to BT. We had this system for over 5 years, with upwards of 50 devices running . We had endless problems as the extenders when off line . Then we came a...

JAY1957 by Investigator
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