If you want to use special router functions that cannot be realised on a Swisscom Internet box, there is nothing to stop you from cascading an additional purely internal network with your own broadband router behind it.
As a result, your own network will be mostly provider-neutral, because your own router doesn’t care what kind of “provider device” with whatever technology it uses to access the Internet.
Hobby-Nerd ohne wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeiten zur Swisscom
Hi Werner, it’s exactly as you say, this configuration helped me a lot when I switched from UPC back to Swisscom, as I didn’t have to make any changes to my LAN including the WLAN and could simply integrate the Swisscom router instead of the UPC modem. The only thing I then did was to connect the TV box directly to the IB3 via its own VLAN, thus preventing this data traffic from also running via my own router.
Basically really great news. Been waiting a long time for this box. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed with the ports. If it says Pro on it, it should also be Pro. Yes, Wifi 7 is great, and a 10 Gbit is also enough. But to still come up with 1 Gbit connections in 2025 is really incomprehensible. For all those people with larger flats or houses who operate more than 1 Wifi Box, 4 2.5Gbit connections for several Wifi Boxes (possibly Wifi Box 4 with Wifi 7) would have been perfect.
It’s a pity this wasn’t integrated, especially in the Pro version. Wasn’t there actually a “normal” and a “pro” version planned?
cybi and @thomas76ch
the Internet Box family is designed to cover at least 99% of the needs of 99% of customers.
In addition, there is no application involving an Internet Box that necessarily requires more than 1GBit. For the 0.0199% of customers who need more (or think they need more), there is a 10GBit port to which you can connect whatever your heart desires. But that should only finance the 0.0199% of customers… 😉
cybi it’s only called “Pro” and not “PROOOOOO” 😉
Only Swisscom’s marketing department can probably tell you why the Pro was added to this router. The IB4 is only new with Wifi7 and an analogue port for telephony has been omitted. And a slightly different housing design, smaller and slightly fatter/rounder. Wouldn’t be enough for a Pro for me either. But there will certainly be a reason. It’s just not clear to us.
But what’s the point? “Faster, higher, further” is the motto! And with Wifi7 you have an argument in your pocket that obviously works 😉
Hello.
On 25 February I am switching from blue Internet M to blue Internet L. I currently have Internet Box 4 and according to Swisscom this should be sufficient. According to the subscription, the following is for new blue Internet L customers with direct connection to fibre optics: Free top model Internet Box 5 Pro worth 349. I assume that the subscription does not run under new customers of the L subscription and is it worth switching?
Best regards, René
I will contact Swisscom on Monday so that they can send me the Internetbox 5.
You won’t get the IB5pro for free (as you’re not a new customer), but you will get it at a special discounted price - if you sign up for another 24 months.
If you don’t have any WiFi 7-capable devices, it’s not worth switching to the IB5pro at the moment
….keep on rockin' 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
René For new blue Internet L customers with direct connection to fibre optics:Free top model Internet-Box 5 Pro worth 349. I assume that the subscription does not run under new customers of subscription L and is it worth switching?
If you switch from the IB4 to the IB5, the IB5 is available at a discounted price (for just under CHF 200). I only switched from the IB4 to the IB5 because the WLAN has been improved, which I have actually noticed for some time now. There have been no noticeable differences in Internet access and landline telephony so far. Hardly any average user can really use the 10GB speed, as the 1GB network is still widespread and still fulfils normal requirements. This was the result of my tests with 10 GB and 1 GB and so I switched back to the L subscription. When you switch from M to L, Swisscom has to replace a device at the centre. It stays there, even if you switch back to M. So you can always switch from L to M and back to L yourself in the customer centre if you think that 10 GB really makes sense. In my experience, however, it makes no sense to stay on L.
Best regards
Gian
gian at 10 Gbit/s, a technology change must be made from 1 Gbit/s (BX) within the fibre optic technology (to XGPON).
(If it was not done immediately when switching from copper to fibre optics).
If you then switch to XGPON technology, only the user speed is limited or not, depending on the subscription, but never the connection speed from the router, which always remains at 10 Gbit/s.
One more addition to the answer from @user109
You can see for yourself whether you have BX or already XGS-PON (if you use the Swisscom fibre optic cable with a blue or red plug on the fibre optic cable).
Blue plug on the fibre optic cable IB side = BX
Red plug on fibre optic cable IB side = XGS-PON
The difference is simply the speed. BX allows a maximum of 1 Gbit/s
So if you have blue Internet M, BX is completely sufficient.
Stephan_76 and what do you do if you only have the OTO socket (fibre optic socket) available? Your orientation suggestion is not bad, but does not always have to be correct if you do not use the SC cables.
XGSPON:
LC/APC connector (OTO socket)
SC connector (Router IB4/IB5 Plus)
BX:
LC/APC connector (OTO socket)
LC connector (Router IB 2+3 /SFP module)
Source: https://www.lichtleiterkabel.com/de/LWL-Stecker-Uebersicht.html
user109 I hadn’t thought about that (not Swisscom cable). Although I think that the 0815 user usually uses Swisscom cable.
I have adjusted the text above. I hope it fits.
