Internet-Booster

  • Good morning,

    the new service has apparently been available for some time. Has anyone tried this setup yet?

    [https://www.swisscom.ch/fr/clients-prives/internet-television-reseaufixe/internet/internet-booster.html](https://www.swisscom.ch/fr/clients-prives/internet- television-reseaufixe/internet/internet-booster.html)

    Thank you for your answers,

    Greetings,

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    • Hi @Ynapag

      I installed it at an acquaintance’s house and frankly it works well! 🙂

      ps: it’s not the internet box plus but the internet box 2, the very latest model. 😉

      @Saphorin so you have to find out before criticizing at all costs!

      Have a nice day everyone! 😄

    Their solution is simple. As Swisscom wants to keep these infrastructure costs as low as possible, it is the customer who pays. Swisscom benefits from a monopoly on copper lines and sometimes voluntarily limits the speed to curb competition, I have experienced this personally. Not installing a relay on a copper line to boost the signal is too complicated for our pseudo NO 1 in technology.

    To summarize, you need at least a vivo S subscription, so 109.– per month. This is initially because your subscription will automatically switch to vivo M + 40mbps, so let’s start at 129.- per month. Added to that a mobile subscription, a sim card, the price of the machine and undoubtedly a new subscription necessarily paying. Knowing that the diffusion of 4G is random, if on paper you can have it everywhere in reality it is mainly in cities and areas with high population density. All of this will undoubtedly increase the bill to approx. 170.– monthly, 2040.– per year, and I am certainly very very optimistic with the prices. to have the infinite advantage of continuing to be a CAPTIF Swisscom customer, given the monopoly.

    2,000.– per year minimum to have the supreme privilege of having a sluggish connection which will peak at a maximum of 75 mbps. So for this modest sum, not to say PEANUTS, you will be able to watch TV and its stupid programs (personal opinion) and you even have the right to very low speed internet. Ah, there’s no denying that we live in one of the most advanced countries in the world and we have, the advertising constantly tells us, undoubtedly one of the best companies in the world, for some it’s even the first in the field, well let’s see.

    For the record, I have a house in France in a hamlet where I am the only one with a connection. This hamlet is located 7 km from the nearest village and I have a 150 mbps connection. at the time France Télécom (13 years ago) had run a line to the hamlet. So I have the internet telephone and TV for 24.99 euros per month, less than 30.–, look for the error.

    In conclusion, you live in a city or its nearby suburbs, you have UPC, Net+, Swisscom, etc…. with more than adequate speeds despite maddening and astronomical prices in international comparison, go out a few kilometers from this area and you are almost in the third world, with the derisory obligation of 2mbps made to Swisscom, they do not have the shadow of a problem in doing so. Note that the prices are fixed whatever the quality of the service offered, it goes without saying that all the costs necessary to obtain the same services as the city dweller are entirely your responsibility, in return the services can be reduced at will (deletion of 2 channels recently) within the limit of the minimum 2mbps without this entitling you to even a symbolic cent of rebate. No, let’s be objective. Swisscom takes full advantage of its monopoly and delivers to us “country folk” a lousy service for an exorbitant price, and I admit that I am extremely happy to have been able to find an alternative, to obtain the same services, in fiat they are superior, for less than 35.– per month.

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    @Saphorin

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    “On apprend parfois plus d'une défaite que d'une victoire” — José Raúl Capablanca

    I tried to order but I don’t have the option in the customer area. On the Swisscom Chat, they told me that I have to wait until the end of next week to place orders.

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    6 days later

    Good morning

    I ordered it today so I can’t say how well it works.

    But as contrary to what @Saphorin says

    • We keep our subscription
    • No SIM to buy (it is included in the Booster Toolkit which is free)
    • No Mobile subscription to order additionally
    • No data traffic fees
    • And the icing on the cake: The new Internet Box Plus is offered free of charge if you don’t have one!

    It’s worth a try anyway if this product is available to you at your address (even if only for the internet box plus)

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    9 days later

    Good evening,
    I installed a little complicated at the start it is better to read and think twice. Before the error.
    But if you follow the instructions it’s simple 😊
    Looking forward to resolving the issue.

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    2 months later

    I installed it, with fairly weak reception at home (a 3G bar), I still get 30 mbts more in download and between 5 and 7 mbts more in upload.
    It’s always good to have!
    On the other hand, I ask to see the life expectancy of the flat cable which passes under my French window…

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    I just installed the Internet booster; but it does not connect to the mobile network. Neither 3G nor 4G.

    Is this linked to the activation date of my migration on inOne which is planned for tomorrow?

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      Indeed Internet booster activated this morning, bonus in download +30% passage in download from 30Mb/s to 41-42 Mb/s and 100% in upload from 10Mb/s to 20 Mb/s. The strength of the LTE signal is at -100dB, I haven’t found a place with better reception. Completely convincing result. On the other hand, switching from the Internet Box plus to the Internet box 2 made me lose 5Mb/s on ATM synchronization, I was at 41Mb/s before and I fell to a little more than 36Mb/s, upload the same.

      We will continue the tests and validate the real benefit and effectiveness of the use of this new device; but purely technically it’s not bad.

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      7 days later

      A little feedback.

      The Internet-Booster really brings a plus in terms of throughput; but this is not constant and can vary significantly during the day, depending on the weather, in short on many parameters.

      The additional bandwidth seems limited in download to between 15-20 Mb/s (3G?) and 5-10 Mb/s in upload. This is not related to the 3G/4G signal reception level. It’s a bit frustrating.

      Good for those who really have a very poor landline (< 15Mb/s) this technology will bring you a real plus, beyond that the gain in navigation/email use will be anecdotal; on the other hand when downloading and uploading (e.g. Cloud backup) there is no photo.

      @Anonym since switching to Internet Box 2 I have lost 5 Mb/s download speed, can you restore my initial speed (44 Mb/s)? THANKS.

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      Good morning,

      this message to SWISSCOM staff to share my personal experience following the transition from Internet Box plus to Internet box 2 as part of the transition from my Vivo Case M subscription to inOne.

      I suffered a loss of ATM synchronization which was 40Mb/s on the Plus box and now dropped to 35Mb/s with box 2. On the Plus box the connection was perfectly stable, I would therefore like to recover my previous speed. At the time the technical team had made a change to my connection profile in order to reach 40 Mb/s, this change would have to be reapplied to my inOne profile.

      THANKS

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      7 months later

      zorglub1


      zorglub1 wrote:

      I just installed the Internet booster; but it does not connect to the mobile network. Neither 3G nor 4G.

      Is this linked to the activation date of my migration on inOne which is planned for tomorrow?


      Good morning. I have exactly the same problem, it doesn’t connect to 4G (and yet there is 4G at my home)

      The light flashes red, and the leaflet says this means “Connection Unable to Connect”

      on my profile, I have this: Capture.PNG

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