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You will need to order your internet connection. There are many providers of this service, you don't have to use BT. Your supplier will send you a router.

In your utility cupboard you will find a white Openreach box. This is the terminal of the fibre-optic connection to your apartment.

If you lift the flap on the left side of the box you will see the wiring connections inside. The yellow socket is where you plug in your router.

Near the Openreach box is your apartment's ethernet routing cabinet.

Open the cabinet and you should find the patch panel with one cable joining socket 1 to socket 12. Don't remove this cable as this is needed for your Grandstream door-entry phone. We will come back to this cabinet …

You will probably want to use the WiFi feature of your router so you need to place the router in the room where you will using it the most.

The router needs to be plugged into a mains socket and an ethernet socket. Somewhere like this :

Make a note of the ethernet socket numbers, in the above case, 2 and 3, and we will use socket 2.

Go back to the utility cupboard and use the cable that came with your router (possibly with one or more yellow connectors). Plug one end into the yellow socket on the white BT Openreach box and the other end into the patch panel socket chosen above (2). Unfortunately it will not now be possible to close the cabinet door.

Now get your router, take it to the room where it is to be fitted, connect an ethernet cable (cat 6 or cat 5e) between the chosen wall socket (2) and the socket on your router (your router installation instructions should tell you this, on a BT box it might be called WAN (Wide Area Network).

Switch on and follow any instructions provided by your internet supplier.

After a short time (minutes) all lights on the router should settle down and show you are connected

Your internet supplier's instructions should tell you how to connect via an ethernet cable or via WiFi.