Fiber optic connection in a closet

Many people who move into a new building have this problem.

The router goes nicely isolated in the closet. This is of course suboptimal when it comes to the WiFi signal.

Solution 1:

Live with it and hope that the routers get better

Solution 2:

Do not use the router’s WiFi and use an access point.

Solution 3:

Customize your installation. There are certainly solutions to relocate the fiber from the cabinet somewhere else in the apartment/house. But it comes with costs

Solution 4:

Use a media converter that converts glass to ethernet.

I also have this problem and am waiting for solution 1 😉

I have no practical experience with it.
Search the forum. Or wait until your colleagues speak up 😉

For solution 3:

It’s not clear to me why you should adjust the installation. Instead of the original fiber optic cable, you can probably also buy a fiber optic cable with the appropriate length. The additional costs should then be manageable.

Walter

If I had a new building with R&M Mm boxes, then I would like a clean solution.
If you want to do that, it costs money.

Something else. Place the router above the cabinet.

I was able to run the cables upstairs. Certainly not ideal, but massively better than before.

What does the standard version for fiber optic connections at Swisscom actually look like? Directly from the socket with an optical intermediate cable into the Swisscom box?

Someone should upload a real example photo here of what a Swisscom fiber optic Anschluss looks like in vivo.

I actually don’t see the point in the suggestions here. The most obvious thing to do is to use a (longer) optical cable from the socket to lead it into the desired room in order to then set up the Swisscom box and the other stuff that goes with it. That there is a problem here because of I doubt it depends on the cable length.

Otherwise, I would point out the so-called POF cable solutions. I saw it at a “demo” for the EWZ fiber optic offering. The thing is an “active” (=power-supplied) extension, actually like a LAN cable, simply on an optical basis, with easy handling for everyone. I don’t know the details, but I would assume that all sorts of coupling adapters are generally available.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymere_optische_Fiber
http://www.home-fibre.ch/shop/de/3-pof-kabel

Greeting

Extending the OTO can to the “correct location” will probably be easiest…

[http://www.diamond.ch/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Datenblatt\_DiaLink.pdf](http://www.diamond.ch/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Datenblatt_DiaLink. pdf)

Swisscom on the crusade just so they can find out that 2 UKV links to the router location are good. You don’t need Swisscom to realize this. This knowledge requires builders willing to pay. Maybe they would be willing to do this if the horrendous subscription fees weren’t so high 😉

For fiber connections, as a Swisscom customer you can install an extension, as Herby describes. Based on Swisscom’s idea with a remote OTO 😉 (of course it’s easier, but shhh, entrepreneurial version). The idea of ​​a converter was probably discarded. I’ve also seen designs for it. But imagine the support had to deal with that. Unimaginable…

With the Swisscom solution, the ugly flower pot can be placed on the TV furniture. Hopefully next to a 75′' screen (at least) because otherwise it’s a fist in the eye.

[https://www.swisscom.ch/content/dam/swisscom/de/about/unternehmen/netz/all-ip/publikationen/documents/fachartikel/electrorevue-07-2016-de.pdf.res/electrorevue-07 -2016-en.pdf] (https://www.swisscom.ch/content/dam/swisscom/de/about/unternehmen/netz/all-ip/publikationen/documents/fachartikel/electrorevue-07-2016-de.pdf.res/electrorevue-07 -2016-de.pdf)

The converter now apparently lives again.

I once said somewhere that if this variant comes along, I’ll have to laugh.

In the sense HA HA “we won’t do anything…”

But to make things complicated you also have to get an SFP 1000Base-T RJ45 module.

Because you can’t turn a LAN Anschluss into a WAN at Swisscom. That would be far too complicated.

[https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/loesung/adaptation-an-der-heimverkabelung.html](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/loesung/adaptation- an-der-heimverkabelung.html)

[https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/cisco-mgbt1-ethernet-1000base-t-mini-gbic-sfp-transceiver-netzwerk-zubehoer-243049] (https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/cisco-mgbt1-ethernet-1000base-t-mini-gbic-sfp-transceiver-netzwerk-zubehoer-243049)

[https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/tp-link-tp-link-mc220l-1x-sfp-1000base-sxlxlh-1x-rj45-1000base-t-media-konverter-netzwerk-zubehoer -2739939] (https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/tp-link-tp-link-mc220l-1x-sfp-1000base-sxlxlh-1x-rj45-1000base-t-media-konverter-netzwerk-zubehoer -2739939)

I can only advise waiting until mid-November. Then we will offer solutions. And a converter is certainly not one of them.

My customers live in today.
Waiting for products from yesterday to tomorrow is not a good idea 🙂

Anonymous1

Reached mid-November, what does it look like? I would be very happy about a solution!

Here is a new building and a router is provided in the fuse box at the ENTRANCE IN THE cloakroom, jackets and coats are sure to dampen the WiFi signal! Oto socket and socket for the router are there!

This is what it looks like: the entire block was rebuilt from A to Z

Greetings

ecoup

The IT release was on WE. Gives us a few days until all offers are online.

It looks similar to ours (new building, first occupancy). At least I have a shelf next to it, so the box is outside. Nevertheless, the cupboard door is closed and the position is still not optimal. Ideally, of course, I would have the box in the living room. But how..?

Others even have the tableau in the basement…and that’s especially true in a cutting-edge new building…