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Your Trooli Fibre to the Premises Installation

Two installation stages

Your new fibre optic connection will be built in two stages: the External Installation and the Internal Installation.

Stage 1: The external Installation

The External Installation is completed by Trooli. This brings the fibre optic cable up to the outside of your premises (what we call the ‘External Demarcation Point’). It will usually be next to the current copper telephone cable entry to your premises. We install a small box onto your external wall, and our fibre optic cable is connected into this box.

Stage 2: The internal installation

The Internal Installation extends the fibre optic cable to a suitable location for your optical terminating equipment (modem) and router.

A hole will be drilled through your external wall next to the small box that was installed during Stage 1, and an internal fibre optic cable (provided by Trooli) is routed from the outside box to the internal equipment location.

Trooli Approved Installation

Your Internal Installation will be carried by one of our own Trooli installation teams, and your end-to-end installation and service activation will be taken care of by Trooli. All installers work to our agreed standards using our approved equipment. The amount you pay for our installation service is standard in accordance with the following rules:

• Drilling of a hole through the external premise wall will be as close to the existing BT telephone cable entry as safely as possible.
• The location of the optical modem and router will be within the room in which the fibre enters the premises. Up to a maximum of 15m of internal fibre cabling will be provided to place the internal connection socket in a suitable location within that room.
• The fibre cable will be tacked against walls and skirting boards; it may be on both inside and outside walls.

Please refer to our Price Guide for the latest pricing information. Call Flow approved Installation Services are covered by our Terms of Service.

Important safety information for Trooli Approved Installation and Additional Services

Your technician will carry out a risk assessment before commencing any work. Please note the following safety rules which apply to all installations. Technicians are not permitted to:

1. Work at any premises unless a person over the age of 18 years and authorised by the Account Holder is present.
2. Enter loft spaces or eaves cupboards unless they are correctly boarded and have a walk-in entrance and are not permitted to work in confined spaces.
3. Use your ladders, stepladders, access equipment or tools.
4. Lend their tools or equipment to you to complete parts of the job or any other work.
5. Disturb or work in the vicinity of areas where they believe that asbestos is present.
6. Work above a height of 5m.
7. Access flat roofs or roof structures.
8. Access underground structures, spaces or excavations or lift floor boards or drill through floors.
9. Move your furniture.
10. Perform specialist trenching or to install cables overhead.

All about WIFI

How to change your wireless channel

Please make sure your device is connected by a wired Ethernet cable into the back of the router when changing any of the configuration on your router, and not connected via Wi-Fi.

Home broadband router: Technicolor

1. 1. 1. Go to your internet browser – e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox – and type 192.168.1.1 into the address bar and press enter.
      2. The home screen will now appear. You need to go to the top right hand corner and click sign in.
      3. The user log in screen will pop up, you need to enter your username and password which are Username: admin; Password: (Your password is your router serial number, which can be found on the base of the router)
      4. Once you have entered your password, click sign in.
      5. If this password does not work, you will need to reset the configuration on the router by holding a pin/paperclip to the reset hole on the back of the router until the power light starts flashing. At this point, you can take the pin out and the router will take 5-10 minutes to sync back up with the Trooli equipment and you will then be able to access the router. You will then need to enter the username and password as detailed above.
      6. After you have signed in you will be prompted to change your password, however you may skip this if you wish to keep the default password. Please note: If you change the password and later on request support from Trooli we will require the password in order for us to log on to help you.
      7. Wireless analyser: To help chose the best wireless channel on your router, the router includes a Wireless Analyser for both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless bands. To use this, click on the Analyser for the band you want to configure and this will bring up a graph.

   

   2. Scroll down to see the option to Re-scan. By clicking this, it will present a fresh scan of your environment and pick up any devices operating on the channels in that band.
   3. Choose a channel that has the fewest devices operating.
   4. To change to that channel please follow these steps.
   5. Go to the wireless box on the right hand side of the screen and click the small setting button that appears when you hover your mouse over the wireless box.
   6. You will then come a screen where you can change your wireless channel from a drop down list.
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   8. Depending on wireless interference in your location, you may need to change this a few times to find a suitable channel for your area. We recommend wireless channels 1, 6 or 11.
   9. Once you have selected your desired wireless channel, a save button will appear at the bottom of the page. Click this button.
   10. You will need to repeat the steps for the 5GHz bands, you need to click on www.callflowsolutions.com under the header ‘access points 5GHz’, this is located to the left hand side of the page.
   11. To change your wireless channel you need to select a number from the drop down list highlighted.
   12. 
   13. Once you have selected your desired wireless channel, a save button will appear at the bottom of the page. Click this button
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   15. If your selected channel does not improve your wireless connection then go back to the previous step and select an alternate channel.

    

   Business broadband router: Billion

   1. 1. Go to your internet browser – e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox – and type 192.168.1.254 into the address bar and press enter.
      2. The user log in screen will pop up, you need to enter your username and password. Username: admin; Password: admin
      3. To check you are connecting to the correct router you will see the router model number shown the top of the logon screen.
      4. If this password does not work, you will need to reset the configuration on the router by holding a pin/paperclip to the reset hole on the back of the router until the power light starts flashing. At this point, you can take the pin out and the router will take 5-10 minutes to sync back up with the Trooli equipment and you will then be able to access the router. You will then need to enter the username and password as detailed above.
      5. Once logged in you need to click on Configuration > Wireless 2.4G > Advanced which are all located to the left hand side of the page.

   

   1. 1. To change your wireless channel you need to select a number from the drop down list highlighted.

   

   1. 1. Depending on local wireless interference, you may need to change this a few times to find a suitable channel. We recommend wireless channels 1, 6 or 11.
      2. Once you have selected your desired wireless channel, scroll down using the slider on the right hand side and click Save.

   

   1. 1. Now repeat for the 5GHz bands. Click on Configuration > Wireless 5G > Advanced which are all located to the left hand side of the page.
      2. You will then come to the screen shown in the image below. To change your wireless channel you need to select a number from the drop down list highlighted

   

   1. Once you have selected your desired wireless channel, scroll down and click Save.
   2. If your selected channel does not improve your wireless connection then go back to step 4 and select an alternate channel.

    

Billion 8900AX-2400 FTTP Router

Our Business grade broadband router

The router that we have selected for our Trooli Business broadband services is the Technicolor Billion 8900AX-2400.

Specification sheet: Business Router Specification

Features

• Dedicated High Powered Amplifiers for both 2.4GHz & 5GHz for Ultimate Wifi
• Latest MU-MiMO with Wave2 11ac technology, supporting 4×4″ Antenna with high powered WiFi Triple-WAN ports for 3G/4G LTE, VDSL/ADSL2+ fallback, Gigabit Ethernet WAN (EWAN) for broadband connectivity
• Simultaneous dual-band wireless up to 2400 Mbps (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
• Gigabit WAN and LAN
• IPv6 ready (IPv4/IPv6 dual stack)
• Fibre (FTTC/FTTP/FTTH) ready with high WAN throughput
• SNR adjustments to achieve highest sync speeds
• Monitoring of individual LAN ports
• QoS for traffic prioritization and bandwidth management
• Compliant with IEEE802.11a/b/g/n and ac standards
• WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) for easy set up
• Wireless security with WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK
• USB port for print server, NAS, DLNA media server, and 3G/4G LTE USB modem
• Supports WDS repeater function
• Multiple wireless SSIDs with wireless guest access and client isolation
• 16 IPSec VPN tunnels
• SOHO firewall security
• Auto failover

Review from Techradar.com

“Billion has done it again and delivered the fastest router it’s ever released. Boasting a throughput of 2,400Mbps over both a 2.4GHz and 5GHz band, the BiPac 8900AX-2400 is a beast – even if we wouldn’t consider it aesthetically pleasing. In lieu of a dated interface, this router features a wide range of ports for added storage down the line on top of integrating a state of the art ADSL2+ modem.”

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/billion-bipac-8900ax-2400-router

Experience Gigabit

The BiPAC 8900AX-2400 has four Gigabit LAN ports and one Giga Ethernet WAN port that can be configured as a WAN interfacefor broadband connectivity. This EWAN offers another broadband connectivity option for connecting to a cable, DSL, fibre modem. The BiPAC8900AX-2400 again offers users convenience and optimal network performance with data rates reaching up to 1Gbps.

Trooli help

If you need technical help you can speak to our Trooli help desk via online chat, or by calling 0800 358 7680, or you can email support@trooli.com.

Technicolor DGA2231 FTTP Router - Set up and user guide

Our Home broadband router

The router we have selected for our Trooli Home broadband services is the Technicolor DGA2231.

You can download the data sheet for this router here: DGA2231 Datasheet

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