23-06-2023 11:38 AM
Hi all,
I'm looking for some help.
We have a 5GEE Router and for the last few months, we keep losing connection to the internet on a regular basis, I mean it can happen every few hours, or it could happen 5 times in an hour. It can be down for 1 minute or it can be down for 5-10 minutes. There doesn't seem to be a pattern that we have noticed.
The strange thing is, when the connection drops, I can still ping websites, I can still even access my works email server on some occasions, but other times I can't, but even when the works email is up, everything else (Google, Facebook, Twitter and many other both large and small websites I've tried, including our own) are down. We have VOIP phones connected by ethernet and they all drop. Our computers are connected using Wi-Fi and that drops as well with the computers telling us there is no internet, but it's still connected to the router when this happens.
We've had the sim replaced in the router, then the router itself has been replaced but neither has solved the issue. I've factory reset, I've tried playing with settings such as switching to 4G only etc but nothing seems to make a difference.
I can't see any kind of diagnostics on the router, the logs don't seem to actually log anything about the connection status either.
Can anyone help shed some light on what I could try here?
04-11-2023 07:59 AM
Hi @jnoiles
I am sorry to hear this has started to happen again, please get in touch with our technical support team and they will run through some troubleshooting with you.
Leanne.
01-01-2025 02:06 PM
What helped me with the same issue was turning off mesh-compatible settings and limiting the wifi to either only 2.4ghz or 5ghz, I have no idea how it could've been related but it reduced the disconnections a lot (not fixed completely but MUCH better)
01-01-2025 04:00 PM
I solved it by purchasing one of these: https://teltonika-networks.com/products/routers/rutx50 It leaves the EE router for dead.
10-03-2025 05:40 AM
Good morning. Realise this thread is a bit old now but wondering if there was a permanent fix for this intermittent connection issue. I have not tries the IPv4 fix yet so will give that a go.
With the latest price increases, paying a lot of money for a very annoying and intermittent connection issue.
12-01-2026 03:19 PM
Switched my business from a 20Mbps traditional down the wire internet connection to an EE 5G Super Hub mobile broadband connection with 5-700Mbps but as above drops several times an hour whether wired or wireless. Technical Help seem anything but. Been with them 13 days. Every day I've been on the phone to them. Spent hours. Think i'll cancel now.
12-01-2026 03:32 PM
The ipv4 fix mentioned above by lothian should fix your issues. It’s been like this for me for 3 years, but fine once ipv6 turned off
12-01-2026 04:13 PM
I've tried creating a new profile replacing the default ipv4v6 using settings sourced online. See how it goes. Thanks for the suggestion 👍Will know pretty quickly if its helped.