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Switched over to ee and wow

Ben36551 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:34:48 GMT

Just recently switched from bt to ee on the 900 package and this is on wifi with my iPhone 😮 very impressive with the new ee wifi 7 hub

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

Kodikid — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:50:20 GMT

Impressive

Yeah I was getting around 200mbps on the SH2 so invested in a EE router wifi 6 from Ebay.

Literally night and day difference

Was tempted to buy the wifi 7 but I figured it really wouldn't offer much more

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

andymerrett2 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:14:19 GMT

The SH2 is quite capable of meeting the speeds, mine does (I’m not on 900 granted).

And BT is EE now. They probably offer the better hardware to get people to switch (even though it’s just a name now really)

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

Ben36551 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:42:56 GMT

The sh2 is definitely not capable of them speeds as it’s only wifi 5 tops out at 500 if your lucky , This new ee router is wifi 7 and is far superior to sh2 it’s a dinosaur in the router world

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

licquorice — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:06:49 GMT

Of course it is capable, I have posted several screenshots that show that it is. Feel free to waste money on snake oil.

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

Ben36551 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:20:47 GMT

I saved money actually I was paying double the price out of contract with bt for the exact same package so it’s a win win 😉

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

WSH — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:25:59 GMT

If you look at the technical white papers, both Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 are more about increased capacity to deal with the number of devices people have today, rather than more raw speed.

Although I do recall seeing that Wi-Fi 7 had a system very close to true full duplex, which will also make a significant difference to throughput speed.

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

Ben36551 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:34:02 GMT

Yes it’s very good I have a busy household currently 29 devices connected and still pulls top speed on my phone over WiFi

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

WSH — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:56:11 GMT

OK, there’s nowt on the tele and I’m bored. I’ve been doing some research, so I’ll bore everybody else just for a laff…

A little bit of historical context to begin with. Where does the expression “broadband” actually come from?

Well, unbelievable as it might be, the most you shove down a copper wire using a single digital carrier wave is 64kb/s. How do we achieve better speeds? Well, why not use multiple frequencies, in fact a “broad band” of frequencies. We simultaneously send a bit of the data across each one and just join it all back together at the other end. Clever, hey.

Certainly, the original draft of Wi-Fi 7 talked about applying a similar technique to Wi-Fi. One frequency for send and a different frequency for receive. It’s technically far more difficult to do with radio, for a number of reasons, but if they’ve pulled it off, Wi-Fi 7 will effectively be full duplex, (i.e. simultaneous transmit and receive), whereas earlier standards were only half duplex, (send then wait for a reply then send a bit more etc., similar to how a walkie-talkie works).

Similar clever stuff has improved Wi-Fi continuously over the last 20 years. The theoretical maximum for Wi-Fi 5 was in fact 3.5Gb/s. Wi-Fi 6 is 9.6Gb/s. For Wi-Fi 7 it was expected to be 30 – 40Gb/s. Of course, operational speeds in a real-world environment are nowhere near this because of things like attenuation and interference.

As an aside: Full Fibre uses the same technique. People are still calling it broadband but it’s not in fact, because it only uses two bands. One for upstream and one for downstream, to give a full duplex system, so it’s hardly “broad” band as such.

(Especially @Kodikid, in view of his long-term championship of the SH2).

Re: Switched over to ee and wow

Kodikid — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:10:15 GMT

I've nothing against the SH2

In fact aesthetically it's probably the best router

It's just been superceded by wifi 6/7 that's all