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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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UPnP

Hi - I have uPnP disabled on my router by choice. I notice a secondary option named "uPnP" enhanced security" - should this be enabled or disabled if my ultimate goal is for enhanced general security, or does it not matter given UPNP is disabled as a...

lumb by Investigator
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Full fibre broadband installation

We've just signed up for full fibre broadband. The information we received after we had completed the order states we need a double electrical plug socket. We don't have a wall socket near to where the box will be. Could we use extension leads instea...

lxg824 by Visitor
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Optical fibre broken

The optical fibre of the broadband is broken, we are tenants moved in this address since June 2022, and it was broken since we moved in, but not completely broken, still connected with single fibre, now is 1000% broken and no internet connection. We ...

esko by Visitor
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Wifi signal

Wifi was brilliant last month got a new router sent out and the upload speed is shockingly slow 0.6mgb clearly states on the website I’d receive a minimum speed of 16 download speed isn’t even close to that what exactly am I paying for other than a t...

Re: EE Broadband keeps dropping out

I hope you can help us XRaySpeX, we've been with EE a while and had issues with dropping out with our BrightBox, before we renewed we sought assurances this would be fixed and they sent us their latest Smart Hub - their systems guy tweaked some setti...

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Bsmart by Investigator
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Resolved! Firmware

Hi, the firmware version on my hub is v0.06.01.08190-EE and the technical information screen has a section which reads "Your firmware has not been updated".  Is this a concern and if so how do I proceed with an update, automated or otherwise? Thanks

lumb by Investigator
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Resolved! What to do with old router?

EE have recently transferred me to BT.  They sent me a new BT router.  I still have the EE router and I'm puzzled as to what to do with it?  Do EE want it back and if so how and where do I send it?  

Lyn76 by Investigator
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Resolved! Discount ended

Seems I had a discount and now it's ended it was worth £6 can't remember why I got a discount but I hadn't realised as everything online. Just remember signing up and them quoting so much a month for broadband and now they want more. I signed up 18mo...