Internet-Box im Verteilschrank installieren

Installing the Internet-Box in the network distribution box

Larger, more modern homes tend to have a network socket in every room. This offers the advantage of a direct connection for your computer or Playstation with the best signal. This article explains how to position and wire up your Internet-Box for this purpose.

Place Internet-Box inside the network distribution box

If you wish to install your Internet-Box directly in the network distribution box, we advise using the network distribution kit. The Internet-Box can be professionally installed using the supplied mounting brackets and all necessary cables are provided. You use these to direct the Internet signal from the network distribution box directly to the Internet-Box and on to the network sockets in the individual rooms. The cable phone signal can also be forwarded to a network socket in a room in this way. Find a step-by-step guide here.

Use a WLAN-Box

Network distribution boxes are usually made of metal and are not located centrally in the home. This means that if you place the Internet-Box inside the network distribution box, this will significantly weaken the WLAN signal. We therefore recommend the additional use of a WLAN-Box. In this case, the WLAN-Box is connected to the Internet-Box via the existing network cabling and placed in the room where good WLAN reception is desired. In addition to a super-fast WLAN and long range, the WLAN-Box also offers the advantage of providing two additional Ethernet ports to connect a TV-Box or other wired devices.

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Installing the Internet-Box in a central room (for small apartments with a DSL connection)

If you have a small apartment and a DSL connection, it is also possible to install the Internet-Box directly in a central room, avoiding the need for an additional WLAN-Box. In the distribution box, use an Ethernet cable to connect the Internet signal to the network port of the room where you wish to place your Internet-Box later. Now you can connect the Internet-Box to the “Internet” port and to the previously patched network socket in the room using the purple DSL cable supplied.

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2 months later

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.

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4 months later

And in the Swisscom Shop the employee’s eyes are wide and he says: “Never heard of it, never seen it before and certainly not sold”! smilies/joy.png “:joy_face:”)

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19 days later

Thanks for the tip. This would work if everything is aligned to a central router with WiFi.

In my apartment there are LAN ports in all rooms; i.e. I would have to massively adapt the star-shaped LAN installation.

Therefore this is not a solution to my need.

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@Cicero

Your case can also be solved easily:

From the centrally located IB2 you connect it to the distributor, use a switch there and connect all rooms to the LAN.

So you only need 1xIB2 and 1xGiga Ethernet switch and thus optimally covers an EFH with both LAN and WLAN.

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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?

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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.

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17 days later

hello @all

I’m facing the same problem… and am planning to put a separate (small) switch in the distribution box - which type of GBIC is used in the I IB2?

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6 days later

Hello, is network cabling also available for distributors with fiber optic on IB2 with fiber optic connection? The graphic above only applies to Lanka cables.

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2 months later

@hed

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

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@hed

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.

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If you don’t need 5 GHz WiFi down to the last corner of an EFH but can get by with 2.4 GHz, you don’t even need a WB. This saves electricity and reduces radiation. the WLAN environmental pollution.

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a month later

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!

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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.

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2 months later

Unfortunately this doesn’t work for me. Exactly as described, carried out several times, even with different cables from the DSL supply line to the corresponding socket. unfortunately unsuccessful. where could the problem lie?

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