Compare EE Smart Hubs: Which is the right router for you? Meet the Smart Hub 7 Pro, 7 Plus and 6 Plus 

Explore EE’s range of hubs and learn about the tech and features which will give you a seamless connection around the home.

By Alex Fletcher
Last updated: March 2026
Reading time: 5 mins

If you’re thinking about to switching to EE Broadband, you probably want to know a little bit more about the tech and kit you’re going to get. New EE customers will be given one of three EE Smart Hubs (you might call it a router). All three hubs are packed with great features that mean you get the very best connection around the home, but there are a few key differences.
Here’s a quick guide to the Smart Hub 7 Pro, Smart Hub 7 Plus and Smart Hub 6 Plus, so you understand what you’re going to get and decide if it’s worth an upgrade.

Smart Hub 6 Plus

The Smart Hub 6 Plus comes as standard for all new part fibre customers. It’s packed full of advanced features for seamless home broadband.  The Smart Hub includes WiFi Controls, which you can manage in the EE app. Using WiFi Controls, you can restrict what your kids see online and schedule a WiFi freeze to get everyone off their devices. You can also group devices and manage individual connections, so you can pause the tablet and computer games in the kids’ bedroom but still keep streaming your favourite show downstairs.

The Smart Hub 6 Plus also includes WiFi Intelligence, which fine-tunes your connection in the background, without you lifting a finger. It keeps you locked onto the fastest, most stable signal available. It perfects your home network in real time, giving you smoother streaming, sharper calls, and rock-solid reliability where you need it most.

We also know online security is becoming more important all the time, so your Smart Hub 6 Plus also includes Advanced Web Protect, helping you stay safe against scams, viruses and untrustworthy websites. It monitors malicious activity, such as phishing or viruses, and creates a log of blocked sites, so you can check the details of the threats.

Smart Hub 7 Plus 

The Smart Hub 7 Plus is currently the most advanced hub offered as standard by any major provider. It is designed to support faster speeds of over 1Gbps, and with the WiFi Extender 7 Plus it can deliver up to 30% higher speeds, consistently around the home, meaning more seamless browsing, gaming and working.

You get all the same WiFi Controls, Parental Controls and advanced security features that you do with the Smart Hub 6 Plus, but with the added power of WiFi 7 technology.

WiFi 7 technology means your hub can deliver:

• Faster WiFi speeds. Get closer to the speed that you would get with an ethernet cable because WiFi 7 technology is twice as fast as WiFi 6.
• A more consistent connection. Less interruptions, less dropouts and a more reliable WiFi signal, even when your home is busy.
• WiFi built for gaming and streaming.  The increased bandwidth and reduction in lag make WiFi 7 ideal for busy homes filled with gamers and streamers.

Smart Hub 7 Pro

Our best and cutting-edge Smart Hub 7 Pro has all the same WiFi Controls, Parental Controls and advanced security features that you get with the Smart Hub 6 Plus.  Like the Smart Hub 7 Plus, it also has added power of WiFi 7 technology.  But what makes the Smart Hub 7 Pro special is that it comes with tri-band technology.

Tri-band is an extra frequency which helps cut congestion for busy home networks. If you’re in a home where lots of people are online at the same time, you use a WiFi Extender or you pay for one of the fastest broadband speeds, a tri-band hub is ideal.