Freebox RJ45 installation
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Hello,
I just had fiber installed in my apartment, but I don't know how to connect my Free box to enable me to use the RJ45 wall sockets located in different rooms. Can I get some help?
I just had fiber installed in my apartment, but I don't know how to connect my Free box to enable me to use the RJ45 wall sockets located in different rooms. Can I get some help?
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Hello,
Where is the box in relation to the housing in the first photo, and where is the fiber housing?
The DTI (open) and the spider of small cables on patch panels 1 to 4 are only for ADSL. They have become useless with fiber.
If the box is installed in this housing, you need 4 Ethernet cables to connect the 4 outputs of the box to the 4 patch panel ports.
If the box is in the living room, corresponding to, for example, port 1, you need to connect one Ethernet output from the box to the wall socket, and in the central housing, put an Ethernet cable between port 1 and, for example, port 4 if that's the room you want to service. To power the remaining 3 sockets, a switch would need to be added.
And this is hoping that the installation has been wired correctly for Ethernet (the 8 wires of a cable connected to the socket) because we often see installations done only for ADSL/telephony where only 2 out of the 8 wires are connected.
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Where is the box in relation to the housing in the first photo, and where is the fiber housing?
The DTI (open) and the spider of small cables on patch panels 1 to 4 are only for ADSL. They have become useless with fiber.
If the box is installed in this housing, you need 4 Ethernet cables to connect the 4 outputs of the box to the 4 patch panel ports.
If the box is in the living room, corresponding to, for example, port 1, you need to connect one Ethernet output from the box to the wall socket, and in the central housing, put an Ethernet cable between port 1 and, for example, port 4 if that's the room you want to service. To power the remaining 3 sockets, a switch would need to be added.
And this is hoping that the installation has been wired correctly for Ethernet (the 8 wires of a cable connected to the socket) because we often see installations done only for ADSL/telephony where only 2 out of the 8 wires are connected.
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a foreigner is a friend we haven't met yet.
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Thank you for your response. I will try to do as you suggested. Of course, nothing is easy since the technicians didn't think it was necessary to number the RJ45 sockets.
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Is it normal that when I plug one of the ports of my box into the RJ45 wall socket, the little orange and green LEDs on the back of my box don’t light up? Thank you.
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To turn it on, there must be a device connected at the other end.
Hello,
I don't see your fiber PTO in the cabinet, it hasn't been installed there; it looks like it's just a main filter behind the spaghetti plate.
The good idea would be to do this:
But if the fiber PTO has been clumsily installed elsewhere, you'll need to add a switch and do something like this:
In any case, the main filter, the octopus cable between the main filter and the patching, and even the DTI, which will never be used again, need to be removed.
But mainly the gray octopus cable whose 4 strands go to the patching.
Then, you must hope that the sockets and the patching are not wired with just one pair for phone distribution, but that there are indeed 4 pairs.
You can take inspiration from the solutions proposed many times on this forum.
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and ... There you go!
I don't see your fiber PTO in the cabinet, it hasn't been installed there; it looks like it's just a main filter behind the spaghetti plate.
The good idea would be to do this:
But if the fiber PTO has been clumsily installed elsewhere, you'll need to add a switch and do something like this:
In any case, the main filter, the octopus cable between the main filter and the patching, and even the DTI, which will never be used again, need to be removed.
But mainly the gray octopus cable whose 4 strands go to the patching.
Then, you must hope that the sockets and the patching are not wired with just one pair for phone distribution, but that there are indeed 4 pairs.
You can take inspiration from the solutions proposed many times on this forum.
--
and ... There you go!
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Hello,
You need to connect your box to the DTI, then do a patch panel switch for your RJ45 sockets.
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“Impose your chance, tighten your happiness and go toward your risk. By looking at you, they will get used to it.” René Char
You need to connect your box to the DTI, then do a patch panel switch for your RJ45 sockets.
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“Impose your chance, tighten your happiness and go toward your risk. By looking at you, they will get used to it.” René Char