Fiber installation + DTI
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Hello everyone in the community.
I'm here to share my question and avoid any potential issues with my internet connection.
I'm currently having my house built and I notice that they have installed a DTI box to distribute the Ethernet connections to different rooms.
I'm with FREE and have a DELTA box, and my future home is eligible for fiber. Ideally, I want to have the box in the living room and have all the rooms wired with Ethernet. Is this possible and if so, how?
Thank you in advance, everyone.
I'm here to share my question and avoid any potential issues with my internet connection.
I'm currently having my house built and I notice that they have installed a DTI box to distribute the Ethernet connections to different rooms.
I'm with FREE and have a DELTA box, and my future home is eligible for fiber. Ideally, I want to have the box in the living room and have all the rooms wired with Ethernet. Is this possible and if so, how?
Thank you in advance, everyone.
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Hello,
there are already quite a few questions on this forum about the same topic, I invite you to read them.
First of all, DTI refers to the phone line arrival, not the 5 patch panel sockets behind. For fiber, the DTI is unused.
So,
you are on a Schneider patch panel, I think you have space to install the PTO (or DTIO, just a question of terminology) next to the patch panel sockets, it would be better than installing it in the living room.
After that,
you’re dealing with two issues:
1/ your stingy electrician who installed a tiny communication box that doesn’t allow for the integration of the box, that deserves two slaps, like Obélix.
2/ but this one is your fault, the Freebox Delta is way too big to fit into a communication box.
Putting the box in the living room is doable, but it’s not a good place for it, especially in a new construction.
It's the right place for a TV box, but not for the internet box, once again the Delta is a burden at this level.
Normally, in a new installation, you should have 2 RJ45 sockets side by side in the living room, that's the standard.
The issue with the Delta box (but it's rather an advancement) is that there is no ONT (they say ONU at Free), so the fiber comes directly into the box from the PTO.
I see 5 potential sockets, so more than ports on the box, it seems to me, although not all are necessarily destined for the Ethernet network.
The good lasting solution would therefore be to bring the fiber to the communication box and find a way to connect the box, maybe make it a shelf by the patch panel sockets, to then distribute the usage to the different RJ45 points in the home.
If there aren’t enough ports on the box, add a gigabit Ethernet switch.
If you need Wi-Fi, increasingly, except in a studio, we turn off the box’s Wi-Fi to broadcast it where we need it via access points or an independent mesh Wi-Fi, which provides better performance and flexibility.
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and... There you go!
there are already quite a few questions on this forum about the same topic, I invite you to read them.
First of all, DTI refers to the phone line arrival, not the 5 patch panel sockets behind. For fiber, the DTI is unused.
So,
you are on a Schneider patch panel, I think you have space to install the PTO (or DTIO, just a question of terminology) next to the patch panel sockets, it would be better than installing it in the living room.
After that,
you’re dealing with two issues:
1/ your stingy electrician who installed a tiny communication box that doesn’t allow for the integration of the box, that deserves two slaps, like Obélix.
2/ but this one is your fault, the Freebox Delta is way too big to fit into a communication box.
Putting the box in the living room is doable, but it’s not a good place for it, especially in a new construction.
It's the right place for a TV box, but not for the internet box, once again the Delta is a burden at this level.
Normally, in a new installation, you should have 2 RJ45 sockets side by side in the living room, that's the standard.
The issue with the Delta box (but it's rather an advancement) is that there is no ONT (they say ONU at Free), so the fiber comes directly into the box from the PTO.
I see 5 potential sockets, so more than ports on the box, it seems to me, although not all are necessarily destined for the Ethernet network.
The good lasting solution would therefore be to bring the fiber to the communication box and find a way to connect the box, maybe make it a shelf by the patch panel sockets, to then distribute the usage to the different RJ45 points in the home.
If there aren’t enough ports on the box, add a gigabit Ethernet switch.
If you need Wi-Fi, increasingly, except in a studio, we turn off the box’s Wi-Fi to broadcast it where we need it via access points or an independent mesh Wi-Fi, which provides better performance and flexibility.
--
and... There you go!