IB3 placed horizontally in a rack

lucaberta

I am a happy InternetBox3 user, and have recently relocated in an apartment with a small metal rack located in a closet, together with 6 runs of Cat7 cables going around the whole house, with the old BKS multimedia standard.

I have removed the BKS plugs and put RJ45 Ethernet ports around the house, and located a few TP-Link Deco wifi units to have good wifi coverage throughout the house.

As such, I don’t even have the IB3 wifi turned on, and the unit is sitting vertically on top of the small metal cabinet containing the rack.

I wonder now if I could position the IB3 horizontally inside of the rack, given that I don’t use wifi, so antenna polarization is not an issue.

Will I run into major heating dissipation issues?

I noticed the following data in the diagnostics:

When I will have some time, I will try to locate the box horizontally in the rack and see its performance and any eventual overheating, and report to the community, in case anyone else would be interested.

Bye, Luca

Black Mamba

@lucaberta

thank you for sharing these experiences 🙂

see extracts from this discussion on Community DE

Positionierung der Internet-Box 3 im Verteilkasten | Swisscom Community

The positioning sensor of the IB3 has already been reprogrammed. Since then, it also accepts the switch cabinet position as correct, so you can and must do nothing more yourself. The error message should not appear at all with the installation variant shown in the picture above, but only if you lay the IB3 flat / horizontally. Standing vertically on one of the 4 narrow sides does not matter - the alarm should not occur there.

It is clear that WLAN does not provide the maximum possible performance in a closed switch cabinet. However, if more WLAN performance is required, I consider the installation variant: IB3 in the switch cabinet with WLAN switched off plus WLAN Box 2 (or 3) connected via LAN cable as a separate WiFi 6-capable access point to be a high-performance option. In my opinion, a router in the control cabinet plus a separate, optimally positioned WLAN access point fulfils all the requirements for good service coverage. You don’t necessarily have to place the ‘engine’ and the ‘distribution centre’ in the living room if the WLAN supply at the optimum location is already sufficient…

lucaberta

Thanks @BlackMamba

looks like in the German forum this situation has been already discussed, with some heated messages too! 🤣

I will report back when I will have finished the job of routing cables and setting up the small cabinet, it should not be a problem looks like.

Bye, Luca