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SETTING UP YOUR ADSL BROADBAND

Follow these steps to set up your Bright Box Wireless Router for your ADSL EE broadband

service. If you are using the EE Fibre optic broadband service, see the next section.

Disconnecting your old equipment

If you’ve already got a broadband modem or router connected to your line, unplug the power

supply and all other cables and put them to one side for now.

We recommend using the broadband filters provided in the box, especially to connect your

new router. You can leave existing filters connected to other telephone sockets.

Connecting your new equipment

1.

Connect the broadband filter to the telephone socket.

Connect your router to the main phone socket for better broadband speeds. make sure

to have a broadband filter connected to all sockets in use, this includes those for telephones,

answerphones, TV box’s and alarm systems.

2.

Connect the grey broadband cable into the broadband filter:

3.

You can connect a telephone to the other available socket on the broadband filter (this

is optional):

Connect and turn on your router

1.

Plug the other end of the grey broadband cable into the DSL socket on your router:

2.

Connect the two parts of the power supply together

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3.

Plug the power cable into the router:

4.

Plug the other end into a plug socket and turn it on:

5.

You can now switch on the router:

Check it over

1.

The power light will go green and the broadband light will go green shortly afterwards.

2.

Your set up should now look like this:

Your home broadband is being set up

This will take up to 5 minutes, so relax and let us do the leg work.

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Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser,

you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router. If after 5 minutes, the

‘Nearly there!’ text is still visible when you reopen your browser window, reboot your PC and

then reopen the browser window again, you should now be able to view web pages. If this still

doesn’t work, you can manually enter your broadband username and password in the router

user interface and make a connection to the Internet (see

on page 52)

You can now connect your devices

You can now connect your devices to your Bright Box router. Choose either wireless or wired

connection and follow the steps on pages 23 and 25

SETTING UP YOUR FIBRE BROADBAND

Follow these steps to set up your Bright Box Wireless Router for your EE Fibre broadband

service.

Make sure that your Fibre broadband has been installed – the engineer will confirm that

your line is ready to go

Disconnect Old Equipment

If you’ve already got a broadband modem or router connected to your line, unplug the power

supply and all other cables and put them to one side for now.

Engineer Visit

1.

The engineer will change your telephone socket and connect the modem for you.

2.

Connect the black Ethernet cable, provided, to the modem:

Connect and turn on your router

1.

Connect the other end of the black Ethernet cable into the red WAN port on your router:

2.

Connect the two parts of the power supply together:

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3.

Plug the power cable into the router:

4.

Connect the power supply into a plug socket and turn it on.

5.

You can now switch on your router.

Check it over

Everything should now look like this, the power light will go green and the broadband light

will go green shortly afterwards:

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Your Fibre broadband is being set up

This will take up to 5 minutes, so relax and let us do the leg work.

Please note that if you're redirected to the ‘Nearly there!’ holding page in your browser,

you may need to wait a few more minutes for us to set up your router. If after 5 minutes, the

‘Nearly there!’ text is still visible when you reopen your browser window, reboot your PC and

then reopen the browser window again, you should now be able to view web pages. If this still

doesn’t work, you can manually enter your broadband username and password in the router

user interface and make a connection to the Internet (see

on page 52)

You can now connect your devices

You can now connect your devices to your Bright Box router. Choose either wireless or wired

connection and follow the steps on pages 23 and 25

MOVING TO FIBRE BROADBAND

Follow these steps to move your Bright Box Wireless Router from an ADSL to EE Fibre

broadband service.

Make sure that your Fibre broadband has been installed – the engineer will confirm that

your line is ready to go

Engineer Visit

1.

The engineer will change your telephone socket and connect the modem for you.

2.

Connect the black Ethernet cable, provided, to the modem:

Reconfigure your current equipment

1.

Disconnect any broadband filters from other telephone sockets.