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How to set up and connect your bOnline broadband router

Set up your bOnline broadband router and get connected, either wirelessly over Wi-Fi or using the yellow Ethernet cable.

This guide explains how to set up your bOnline broadband router and connect your devices to the internet. You can connect wirelessly over Wi-Fi or with the yellow Ethernet cable.

Check the contents of your box

Make sure your box contains all the items shown below. If anything is missing, contact bOnline.

Contents of a bOnline broadband router box: router, power adapter, broadband cable, Ethernet cable and microfilters.

Step 1: Find your master socket

Your master socket is the main phone socket in your premises. It is usually larger than a standard phone socket and often has a horizontal line across the middle.

The type of master socket you have determines whether you need to use microfilters.

Comparison of a standard master socket and a pre-filtered master socket.

Step 2: Unplug everything from your master socket

Unplug everything from your master socket and all other sockets in your premises, including:

  • Phone cables

  • Microfilters

  • Splitters

Step 3: Connect your microfilters (standard master socket only)

If you have a pre-filtered master socket, skip this step and go to Step 4.

  1. Plug a microfilter into your master socket.

  2. If you have a phone, connect the phone cable to the phone port on the microfilter.

  3. Plug a microfilter into every other socket you are using. Additional microfilters can be bought from any electronics retailer.

Please note: never plug microfilters into other microfilters. This will affect your broadband performance.

Microfilter plugged into a master socket with the phone cable in the phone port and the broadband cable in the ADSL port.

Step 4: Connect your router

If you have a standard master socket

  1. Connect one end of the grey broadband cable to the ADSL port on your microfilter.

  2. Connect the other end to the Broadband port on the back of your router.

Grey broadband cable connected from the ADSL port on the microfilter to the Broadband port on the router.

If you have a pre-filtered master socket

  1. Connect one end of the grey broadband cable directly to your master socket.

  2. Connect the other end to the Broadband port on the back of your router.

Grey broadband cable connected directly from a pre-filtered master socket to the Broadband port on the router.

Step 5: Power up the router

  1. Connect the power adapter to the back of the router and plug it into a wall socket.

  2. Press the On/Off switch on the side of the router.

  3. Wait for the Power, Broadband and Internet lights to go solid green. This can take a few minutes.

bOnline router front panel showing Power, Broadband and Internet lights solid green.

Step 6: Connect your devices

Your router is now set up. You can connect your devices using Wi-Fi or an Ethernet cable.

Wi-Fi connection

  1. On your device, open your Wi-Fi settings and search for available networks.

  2. Select the Wi-Fi network name shown on the sticker on the back or bottom of your router.

  3. Enter the Wi-Fi password shown on the same sticker.

Ethernet (wired) connection

  1. Connect one end of the yellow Ethernet cable to the Ethernet port on your computer.

  2. Connect the other end to one of the yellow LAN ports on the back of your router.

Yellow Ethernet cable connected from a LAN port on the router to a computer.
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