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I recently got a smart hub 4g wifi router with sim card.

JohnHenderson46
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Early March I got a 4g smart hub wifi router with sim card, and as I live in rural Angus and live in a stone cottage I also had fitted an external antenna. The router sits beside my computer and the speeds achieved are far superior to my previous copper wire set up. However I also have a smart tv, situated in another room, perhaps 12-15 metres away from the router and with some stone walls between them. I also have a range extender. When I try to stream, while my tv recognises the network it constantly shows "no internet access". I have tried several remedies, I have hard wired the tv, I have physically moved the tv to near th e router,, I have used another tv and repeated the above.  I have had a local it engineer call, to no avail, but at a cost of £95, I have spoken to a Toshiba tv engineer to ensure no problems with the tv. I have spoken to EE Greenock on six or seven occasions and have been passed to their technical support team in India, ther same number of times. I have been referred to their level two diagnostics team on two occasions. Their latest suggstion being incompatability and IDV4 -v- IDV 6. All this with no change. I also have solar panels and an inverter which tells you if you change routr you must reconfigure the inverter to talk to th Shine phone app. Again I have tried this several times  and at least once under the guidance of the inverters technical support, and once usinf the electrician who installed the inverter in the first place. Again without any improvement and at further cost. Recently I asked EE to replace the original router which they have done, but which has made no diference. I cannot believe that I am the only person to whom this has happened, and I find it astonishing that EE do not recognise this problem and are unable to fix it. Any help

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Christopher_G
EE Community Support Team

Hi @JohnHenderson46 

Welcome to the community.

It sounds like it could be a compatibility problem, if you're only having the issue with one device and have had a replacement router. Some devices tend to prefer a broadband connection over mobile broadband. Our network uses CGNAT, which means you don't get a fixed IP address for your device.

Chris

Thanks Chris.  I have two devices that don't like my EE broadband wifi, my smart TV a Toshiba and my solar panel inverter, a Growatt. Does compatability mean they are IPV4 and need to be IPV6. Please note, I recognise the words but not necessarily the meanings. So is there some way to change these devices to IPV6 or how do I get,the CGNAT or whatever you called it?
Thanks, John
Christopher_G
EE Community Support Team

It could be, @JohnHenderson46 

If you take that information to the manufacturer, they'll be able to tell you if that's likely to be the reason.
Chris

JennyS2
Visitor

Hi I had the same issue with my sky box and on another thread they solved it. 

Here is the instructions I followed then tried reconnecting to the WiFi from my sky box and it worked.

Go to your router admin. 

192.168.1.1 in your browser should do it. Password was given to you with the box.

Go to 

Settings -> Setup -> Profile management

Now take a screenshot / print out of that screen - you will need to copy these setting to create a new default profile.

Click new

Fill in the settings exactly the same (you don't need to add a password) but change the IP Type to IPv4.

Click save and set as default.

jp166
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Sounds painfully familiar. Cannot get a connection that works on my EV charger with one of these, reduced to hotspotting it on my phone, and noone seems to have a clue why (answer below is the first meaningful suggestion I've found). Reassuring to learn I'm not alone, but, why are EE producing routers that are incompatible with other devices ( and if they are, they should make this very clear, since those of us buying such things are doing so precisely because we can't use fixed line broadband....)? Did the suggestion below fix the issue?