Swisscom via fiber optic & UPC via copper?

Hello everyone,

a somewhat special case. We have an apartment which has a copper & DLS Anschluss in approximately every room. My girlfriend would like to connect the Swisscom router via fiber optic in the living room. (Technician is coming tomorrow) Since I need a little more volume when it comes to the Internet and my office room is a little further away, I planned to get a copper modem from UPC (Yes had good experience with it) and connect it directly to the office. The copper access would be available as well as a DSL Anschluss, the question is whether someone already had 2 providers at home with 2 different types of connection?

Do you think that would work?

I’m curious about your experiences and answers 🙂

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@Naupreibu90

No, that’s not possible, but why don’t you pull a LAN cable from the Internet box (Swisscom) into your office.

Is this really a direct fiber optic connection from Swisscom and what speed is it available?

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@Naupreibu90 wrote:
….Since I need a little more volume when it comes to the Internet and my office room is a little further away….

A copper modem from UPC is unlikely to give you more volume than with fiber optics.

In terms of costs, it doesn’t make sense to operate 2 providers and 2 devices…

As Walter mentioned, have a LAN line run into the office - it’s best if you replace the coax installation with a LAN installation, which is much more future-proof.

This costs a little bit - but only once. You have to pay a second provider monthly for years, which ultimately ends up being much more expensive.

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….keep on rockin' 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

The choice of connection technology for the Internet connection should be in accordance with:
[https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Archiv-telefonie/Wifi-Calling-scheint-nicht-zu-funktionieren/m-p/662138#M56537] (https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Archiv-telefonie/Wifi-Calling-scheint-nicht-zu-funktionieren/m-p/662138#M56537)
the order listed.

If the end customer is dependent on a reliable Internet connection (e.g. home working), the Internet connection must be redundant via two different, independent Internet providers (for example: Swisscom <-> UPC-Sunrise) (via their own, dual WAN capable hardware firewall/router). See also:

https://community.upc.ch/d/12213-internet-fallen/3

[https://community.upc.ch/d/7374-nix-mehr-und-was-das-meant/3](https://community.upc.ch/d/7374-nix-mehr-und- what-that-means/3)

[https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Internet-general/Wieviel-Kupferleitungs-habe-ich-zu-Gute/td-p/691173](https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Internet- general/how-many-copper-cables-do-I-have-too-good/td-p/691173)

Realize house network cabling (LAN installation; office room <-> living room) exclusively using Gigabit Ethernet network cable.

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@WalterB that’s fine. For example, I can have Swisscom via fiber optic and, for example, Sunrise/UPC via Coax and Green via DSL. But whether such a configuration makes sense is a completely different matter. See what @GrandDixence wrote. I would only do such an installation if the Internet connection needs to be highly available.

Maybe an additional mobile phone connection.

I have a similar setup here at home. Fiber (RES) Swisscom with mobile phone backup and via xDSL (SME) Swisscom with mobile phone backup.

This meant that the few fiber failures (5 in 10 years) were easily overcome.

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@bitracer

I’m also of the opinion that the Swisscom Anschluss would be enough for the speed, but if there was an Internet outage backup as the main reason, things would look different.

But as I understood it in the first thread, it’s all about the speed and it’s not absolutely necessary to use two independent subscriptions.

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@Naupreibu90

Have you decided to use another provider anyway? Are you absolutely dependent on high availability of your connection? Only in this specific case can it make sense to take out another subscription with another provider. Otherwise it makes zero sense, given the high costs. When it comes to speed… you’ve got the best if you have a fiber optic connection from Swisscom!

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