LAN socket does not provide internet even though router is installed in another room

The socket where you plugged in the DSL cable is not a LAN socket, but a telephone/DSL socket.

If there are other telephone sockets in the apartment that are actively connected, they will at most interfere with the router’s DSL connection, but will never be able to be used as a LAN.

The question is whether there is even Ethernet LAN cabling in this apartment.

To be able to assess it better, take a few more photos of the suspected LAN sockets and, if there are any, also a photo of the control cabinet, where all the LAN cables should actually come together.

Hello @Theutappu79

I’ll try a remote diagnosis 😉

The LAN socket 1 in the picture, like socket 2 in the study, ends in the central fuse box. The Swisscom telephone line also arrives there from outside and is now connected (patched) with a short patch cable to the end of network line 1 there. This is how the DSL signal comes to the box.

In order to create a network connection from the router to the study, a second line is required.
As I said, it’s a guess from afar. If such a fuse box exists, can you please post a photo here?

Thanks, it’s as expected.

Line 2 leads to the study, the short patch cable leads DSL to the living room.

To have a network in both rooms, you can lock the router in the fuse box, but this weakens the WiFi very much.

It would be better to have a network line from the router location back to the fuse box. But that doesn’t exist.

So the basic idea of ​​this existing cabling is that you place the router directly in the control cabinet and connect the DSL cable directly to the DSL input.

You can then “extend” a real LAN from the router’s individual LAN ports to the LAN sockets in the individual rooms using a LAN cable.

What has been done so far is simply extending the telephone cable to the router location, which as a result then makes the entire in-house LAN unusable.

If you don’t want to put the router in the control cabinet, the only solution is to have a second LAN cable laid from the router location back to the control cabinet and also install an Ethernet switch, which then replaces the router Distribution of the LAN in the individual rooms takes over.

As an addition:

If the WiFi from the control cabinet is too weak, the cheapest solution is probably to switch off the router’s WiFi and replace it with a WLAN-Box 2 for CHF 98, which you then connect to one of the LAN sockets, for example in the living room.

Since the WLAN-Box has a total of 3 LAN ports and only needs one to be connected to the LAN socket, you also gain two free LAN ports in the living room in addition to the WLAN directly in the living room, e.g. also for a TV-Box and similar.

By the way, Swisscom also seems to have a promotion for WLAN-Box 2 for just CHF 69 🙂

[https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/produkte/internetrouter/details.html/wlan-box-2-11041228?useCase=HARDWAREONLY&quantity=1] (https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/produkte/internetrouter/details.html/wlan-box-2-11041228?useCase=HARDWAREONLY&quantity=1)

The WiFi Box 2 is currently available at a special price from Swisscom for CHF 69.-