hi everybody how's it going
welcome back to the channel
today
we're going to talk
wi-fi routers
above me is a ee
mobile wi-fi it's got a little sim card
slot in the side here and on the top
it's got two little aerials
which normally have like little antennas
i've taken him off and i've put an
external wi-fi booster
at the moment with ee
excuse me
there's only one bar where i live which
is okay for streaming and also go for
mostly emails
watching youtube
and anything else you want to do
but
i didn't think that was good enough so
i had a quick look on ebay and
people are on there and they're selling
an unlock code
for the ee mobile wi-fi anywhere from
99p
up to 13 pounds
so i thought
well if there's an unlock code i wonder
what eu you know know about it so
quick search on the interweb come up
with the website
i typed in my ee
and
it basically says you can unlock any
peripheral or any apparatus
what you ever want to call them
for free
so on the box
this is my box
that's what it came with
it came it's a 240 household
uh
wi-fi
um
you get all the gump with it
you get a
card
and it has in there
inside is the nano sim
so you just pop that in
and away you go
now as i said where i live the wi-fi
here or the wi-fi reception for ee
is not very you know not very good it's
only like one bar
but as i said i've got
a wi-fi uh extended aerial on the roof
because obviously the vans fully
insulated
um and it doesn't get very good signal
so
i thought
i'll have a quick look and see if i can
improve that
now i went to tesco's a little while ago
because i wanted a new phone
um because the iphone 13 came out
so i went in there
and they were doing a really really good
deal on an iphone and i thought you know
what even though i don't need the sim
card it's got unlimited data unlimited
calls unlimited everything and it's not
capped
the only thing you have to do with it is
if um there is an unfair
usage on it um and you can put like 99p
or zero so i set mine to zero because
well it's unlimited isn't it
so i came home and i've had the phone
for a while now and basically i put my
old sim card in from my old iphone into
this one
and i use the iphone 8 as a spare phone
um
on the dashboard for sat nav
and you know whatever
so i've got this
lovely phone
and unlimited data
now so i'm on ee and that's also got a
limitator but the signal sometimes isn't
all that great
i've never had a real problem but
like most people you don't really like
looking at one bar you want
three bars don't you you want all of it
all the lights lit up
so
i went on to the ee website
and
on there
you can unlock it
all you need
is your box or your emi number
all the details are on the front here
and you type the
emi number in
and
the email address and basically it comes
up with an unlock code
i'll show you some screenshots now
they are off the phone so they are going
to be a little bit slim not
you know full width
and basically just follow the
instructions
you put in the new sim card
and bob's your uncle you have a fully
unlocked
mobile router
now
that's pretty cool actually because
obviously some i know some
wi-fi uh dongles have two sim card slots
uh
but obviously this has only got
the one
so i've swapped the sim cards over
and now the uh because it's some tesco's
and tesco's is on o2 so now i'm on o2
and i've got where i am i've got
two bars as soon as i move i'm on to
three bars
and the wi-fi reception now is almost
if not as good as
uh fibre optic it really really is so
fast i have no lag no i mean i'm not
that i had any problems before but you
could see there's a little bit of
latency
but this is um this is so much better so
if you want to uh unlock your
ee
uh wi-fi box
just go on their website
and put the imi number emi number in i
think it's called an emi number
and uh they will send you the
passcode which is just a
i think it's like six digits or seven or
eight digits so that
you have to use your laptop
basically you go on your laptop and
you turn off the wi-fi
and then you type in
uh
192.168.1.1
that gets you into the router you have
to be quite close to it
anyway
in this section there
it will come up with router settings and
you can rename it and stuff like that
so uh i've renamed mine obviously
project camper you can put your your own
uh passcodes in you can change all the
settings and
do what you like with it really
which is quite handy actually because
obviously and you can make it a private
network
uh
just there's just loads of stuff on
there you can do which is really really
handy
so you go down and you can put in unlock
code so you put the unlock code in
then all you have to do is put your new
sim card in the side
and that is it
you are up and running completely
unlocked
to choose any network that you uh deem
fit
whatever you want to do gift gaff the
whole lot
the other reason why i wanted to do it
is because when we're allowed
uh and we go abroad
obviously there might be some kind of
conditions because now we're not in ee
uh sorry the eu not e
uh the eu the the roaming
data might be capped or
for whatever reason so you can just go
into a local shop and you can buy
a nano sim card
chuck it in the side and now you've got
wi-fi abroad um you can use it yeah you
could probably buy and pay as you go or
a 15 pound data card or 20 well euros
chuck that in and away you go or if
you're obviously spending a lot longer
you can get a year contract
and uh you won't have to worry about
data charges and roaming charges
so i just thought i'd let you know about
that little tip i don't know if you know
but i just thought it would be
just a little great little small video
to do
let everybody know
and uh
go from there
so anyway
i hope you found this little uh tutorial
or little tip bit
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and uh
see what happens so anyway thanks for
watching and hopefully i'll see you next
video
merry christmas cheers bye
you