Good question Chris - I think there is no real excuse - and increasingly devices not supporting ipv6 unless they are trivial devices will tend to perform less well or not at all- and so won’t be as attractive to consumers.
However the OP router appears to support ipv6, but not interwork correctly with his mobile broadband provider… so the question would be has that vendor undertaken interworking tests with that mobile network?
However if you look at your smart phone the chances you will see Ipv6 enablement as the manufacturers tend to test for the main carrier networks in a region or country.
it might be worth talking to EE or logging onto their website to see if there is a more recent ipv6 router they can provide if you are concerned about its age.
I have just looked on my smartphone on EE, and there appears only ipv6 WAN addressing - and no native IPv4 WAN connectivity.
Yes indeed- they do their own 5G devices and likely I’ll end up signing for one. There’s a hefty price premium attached though - which I’ve been trying to avoid by DIYing it.
well if you hop around the ee forums you might see some feedback and settings for other third party routers that do work optimally… but I always use the ISP modem, base router with broadband. I then use my own wifi and other networking components within my LAN that I have control over.
Do you not get a new free 5G or 4G hub router when you sign up for a new mobile broadband contract? Do they call them ‘hub plans’ ? Their 5G Hub looks interesting.
You do - but the bundle price I was quoted worked out at approx £1K over the 18 months of the contract. EE wouldn’t budge on that even though i’ve got 6 different mobile lines on my account with them
An unlimited data sim costs less than half that. Which obviously makes providing your own router look quite attractive - as long as you can get it to work.
Another alternative is to buy an ‘unlocked’ and ‘refurbished’ EE 5G device and take a sale-or-return chance on that. They’re going for around £150 online.
So iI have availed myself of a refurbed EE 5G (HH70C) router for £150 and so far so good.
Streaming performance on the Nova is stable again -especially after I power cycled the 5G device , then the switch and the wifi extender and finally the Nova itself.
Three bars of 5G signal from the EE mast just over a mile away - with no external antenna on the router - yields a typical off-peak performance of….
I’ve used Scancom SIMs for EE ‘unlimited’ (but fair use of 500-600GB or so each month) for a few years in an old EE MiFi router as well as the recent TP-Link device. Excellent value (especially when on offer on Amazon) for me personally as a backup for my FTTC broadband.
I’ve had an unlimited mobile wifi SIM deal from EE for 6/7 years now and haven’t noticed the bandwidth ever being throttled . That’s with two teenagers slurping data as well.
Overall it’s a good, fairly cheap solution for anyone beyond (Open)reach of decent landline internet and doesn’t want to use Starlink.
With EE the consumer mobile Broadband account (SIM) is unlimited with the following proviso.. monthly usage should not exceed 1TB - if it does EE say they reserve the right to shape bandwidth or move to a business account.
Cheers Simon, yes I tried running it as a full access point with the same SSID and it all seemed fine until I tried to watch to Netflix! So it just sits there as a separate wifi network covering a dead spot at the other end of the house.
Never mind , i’ll get some proper mesh gear in due course -but tbh i’ve had quite enough of routers and stuff for the time being.
Excellent - reading the blurb on EE terms and conditions they say:
If you’ve set up your Smart Hub Pro and your Smart WiFi Pro device in your home and you don’t get a minimum of 100Mbps WiFi speeds in every room, we’ll run some diagnostic tests and you may be eligible for 2 more devices and an engineer visit. If you still don’t get a minimum of 100 Mbps WiFi speeds in every room, then you can claim back a £100 one-off bill credit. See ee.co.uk/terms for full terms and conditions. Excludes external rooms, buildings or structures.
So it might be worth contacting them if you are using those devices - though you said you got an unlocked EE mobile router - so I dont know what age that is.
Interesting - I suppose that’s what you get for the hefty premium they charge their official home 5G bundles over the way i’m doing it. I’ll check it out, though I suspect they’ll turn up their noses at my refurbed device - it’s sold by a 3rd party re-seller.
What are you paying for the ‘unlimited’ monthly contract and how much data are you actually using as if the service is suboptimal you’d probably be nowhere near any caps.
I had 2 EE mi-fi device contracts (little yellow boxes) and the boxes still work well despite poorer portable battery life. It was some years ago but both contracts are now cancelled as the earlier one was around £40/month for 32GB and the later one perhaps £35/month for another 40-50GB monthly. These were mainly used for travel/holiday lets in the UK when rural broadband really was dire.
£75/month for mobile wi-fi was eventually silly so I cancelled both.
The Scancom SIMs are technically ‘business’ plans but are one off purchases so £200 might get you 20 months of ‘unlimited’ EE data, they work in older EE or unlocked devices and I get 600MB fair use monthly allowance for just over £10 monthly.
Still have a Zen FTTC connection which while not the fastest is very stable and well supported in the event of any issues.
