Slouching Raymond
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The CityFibre van arrived almost bang on time this morning at 8:00am.
By 9:30 two guys had layed the cable under my lawn, installed a connection box on the outside of my house, and a termination box inside the house.
After some setting up at the nearby cabinet, and a lengthy power up procedure for the termination box, it gave 4 green leds, which means good.
Then CityFibre is done, and it is up to me to install and initialise the wi-fi router.
Included in the package is an 'eero' router, with the briefest of set up guides.
The eero has just one led which shines through the white casing, two ethernet type sockets, and a usbc socket for power.
The two ethernet type sockets are labelled '2.5' and '1', and there is no further explanation. One of them is going to be the WAN socket, and the other an Ethernet socket.
The guide tells me to download the 'eero' app to my android phone, invoke it, and 'follow along'.
I assumed that the app would connect me direct to the eero router to get it set up.
The app asks for my full name, phone number, and email address, which I enter.
Then it said 'Something went wrong - Try Again', and I go through that loop a few times.
The CityFibre guy suggests my phone should connect directly to the internet, rather than through the router, so I enable internet on my phone.
I then get past the name, pnone number, and email screen.
The eero app then asks me to create an Amazon account, and aggree with their terms and conditions. I learned previously that the eero router is an Amazon product.
I don't really want to enter a conract with Amazon, and my phone is not the best place to trawl through pages of small print, before aggreeing.
At this point I abandon the eero router and look at setting up the TP-Link router I just bought for the job.
The TP-Link router seems more useful, with 1 WAN socket, 4 Ethernet sockets, better labeling, more buttons and leds, and 6 antenaes.
I will go through their setup procedure shortly...
By 9:30 two guys had layed the cable under my lawn, installed a connection box on the outside of my house, and a termination box inside the house.
After some setting up at the nearby cabinet, and a lengthy power up procedure for the termination box, it gave 4 green leds, which means good.
Then CityFibre is done, and it is up to me to install and initialise the wi-fi router.
Included in the package is an 'eero' router, with the briefest of set up guides.
The eero has just one led which shines through the white casing, two ethernet type sockets, and a usbc socket for power.
The two ethernet type sockets are labelled '2.5' and '1', and there is no further explanation. One of them is going to be the WAN socket, and the other an Ethernet socket.
The guide tells me to download the 'eero' app to my android phone, invoke it, and 'follow along'.
I assumed that the app would connect me direct to the eero router to get it set up.
The app asks for my full name, phone number, and email address, which I enter.
Then it said 'Something went wrong - Try Again', and I go through that loop a few times.
The CityFibre guy suggests my phone should connect directly to the internet, rather than through the router, so I enable internet on my phone.
I then get past the name, pnone number, and email screen.
The eero app then asks me to create an Amazon account, and aggree with their terms and conditions. I learned previously that the eero router is an Amazon product.
I don't really want to enter a conract with Amazon, and my phone is not the best place to trawl through pages of small print, before aggreeing.
At this point I abandon the eero router and look at setting up the TP-Link router I just bought for the job.
The TP-Link router seems more useful, with 1 WAN socket, 4 Ethernet sockets, better labeling, more buttons and leds, and 6 antenaes.
I will go through their setup procedure shortly...