Fix festive lag: how to avoid tech troubles this Christmas

The family Christmas dinner is normally the busiest table of the year. Plates full of meat and veg fill every inch of the table, and emergency chairs are procured and added to the corners to fit everyone around it. A bit like your stomach after the meal, though, with so many people in your home, your WiFi may be fit to burst.

All those extra phones and laptops could be putting a strain on your bandwidth and cause your connection to go into its own post-meal slumber. Most modern routers are capable of handling anything from 32 to 256 devices at any one time, but if more than a handful are using a considerable amount of data at once, things are likely to slow right down.

If you want a broadband connection that can handle all that extra Christmas cheer, and more, EE’s full fibre connection offers up to 1.6Gbps speeds and comes with the EE Smart Hub Pro. This features WiFi 7 connectivity to connect up to 190 devices at the same time and still deliver incredibly fast speeds to every device that needs it.

The biggest causes of Christmas lag

The night before Christmas, and all is well. Except your partner didn’t lock in that last supermarket delivery slot, so you’re scouring the delivery apps to see if anyone can drop off that list of all the things you forgot last week. There’s plenty more planning to do, but you’ve still got work calls, and when everyone is working from home, can you guarantee that your boss won’t just get a stuttery and blurred picture of you? Luckily, EE’s WiFi Enhancer can prioritise those calls for you.

It’s the big day, and big sister’s in the kitchen trying to recreate a Delia recipe while streaming her video. Meanwhile, the nephews are glued to their tablets, lost in worlds of Fortnite or Minecraft. Mum is catching up on the Strictly final in the living room, and Dad is downloading a load of new apps for his phone. You can almost hear the route starting to creak under the pressure. The Smart Hub Pro is taking it in its stride, though, and everyone stays happy.

After the feast, everyone settles in to watch a marathon of Christmas films. Everyone has a different favourite they want to watch, from those black-and-white classics to your Jude Law rom-coms, though you know Die Hard is the best option, really. Each option seems to be on a different streaming platform. As you pull them all together, you just hope the signal will hold for the duration. That streaming mode on the WiFi enhancer should save the day once more, keeping your movie watching a priority, even as every household on the block does the same thing.

The real gift this Christmas just keeps on giving

It doesn’t take much to throw a pleasant family gathering into turmoil, but you can guarantee that a lack of internet could tip some over the edge. EE’s Full Fibre features the UK’s best broadband technology and packages provide rock-solid stability, even at peak times, with speeds up to 1.6Gbps, guaranteeing you never have to wait. Plus, it comes with the EE Smart Hub Pro, featuring WiFi 7 connectivity to give you faster connections with less interference, and cope with all the devices in your home – and a lot more too. For more info on EE’s full fibre broadband and Smart Hub Pro router, visit EE.co.uk.