
A simple solution while remaining practical is an optimized Internet box router/gateway with wifi/Dect disabled for the distribution cabinet.
or solution 3 proposed.
Add one or more WLAN boxes which will fulfill these functions via a reliable Ethernet connection via the pre-wired distribution cable to the desired room(s).
Using the standard Internet-Box
If it is not possible to place the router outside the distribution cabinet, you can use a standard Internet-Box instead of the Internet-Box 2. To improve the performance of the WLAN, a wireless access point (e.g. WLAN Booster from Swisscom) can be installed additionally.
Hello @Pichalain
The connection kit is available in the Swisscom Shop and unfortunately cannot be ordered online.
Kind regards, Miriam
Thanks for the suggested solution.
I have a **glass connection on the distribution box (new building). It is located in the middle of the 4.5-room apartment.
Who will make the transition in the distribution box and the in-house glass extension into the living area, where I will possibly set up the IB2?
The living area is on the west side of the apartment. I doubt that an IB2 will be enough.
Are there any experience reports about the Wi-Fi connection/performance of IB2 on the same floor?
How many walls can an IB2 penetrate?
I recommend calling in an electrician for in-house installation. It is not possible to make reliable predictions about WLAN coverage from a distance; it depends on countless external influences. The only way to do this is to try it out, at best with the support of tools such as inSSIDer.
And before you do a fixed, expensive installation, you can set everything up on the fly and test it intensively for a few days.
Hello @reen
Take a look at this thread: Fiber optic connection with media converter
Greetings Samuel
Unfortunately the solution described above doesn’t work for me. Either I’m stuck or I have to wire something else.
I was happy to receive the IB2 and a WB.
My internet Anschluss is in the basement (new EFH building), lead it into the living room via Anschluss 1, where the IB2 is. Everything works so far. Now I wanted to bring the Internet back into the basement via another Anschluss (e.g. Anschluss 2) so that I can feed it to all sockets in the house via the existing distribution network. But the signal doesn’t come down? I can’t get a signal on my switch. I’ve already tested various connections, but none of them work. What I don’t understand is why can I get the signal up but not down via the house installation?
If necessary, I laid a LAN cable over the stairwell where I feed my WB, which works, but is not the solution if you already have an existing house network. If other cables are needed, they are all 8-pin, the Anschluss cable on the IB2 only has 4 pins, is that correct?
Thanks for the help.
Greetings
Marco
Thanks for your input…can’t see the forest for the trees…for me it was the wrong cable. LAN cable is not the same as LAN cable… that was a lesson to me. It definitely works… Thank you very much!
Greetings
Marco
NB: the IB2 and WB are awesome… I previously had 7 Deco M5s from Tp-Link so I had stable WiFi… now I do it with 2 devices.
Hello everyone, I have a similar problem, but I can’t find my way here because not everyone has the same situation. For me, I have the IB2 in the distribution cabinet in the basement so that the Internet is distributed to all connections in the house. But now the WiFi is very weak because the IB2 has to be positioned in the basement + in the distribution cabinet. How can I expand my WiFi? What options are there? The WLAN-Box would also be available to me.
Thank you in advance for your helpful feedback!
Your situation is not unusual, the possible solutions have already been explained countless times here in the forum.
Briefly summarized: You can extend the connection line, for example, to the WZ, connect the IB2 there and feed it back to the distributor in the basement, or you can leave the IB2 in the VK and use the WB.