Fiber connection to the box
brupala Posted messages 111955 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention -
Hello,
I would like some advice regarding the installation of fiber at my home.
The PTO has been installed next to my communication cabinet. Several rooms are connected via RJ45 sockets to the cabinet. Currently, I have my box in the garage, but I would like to move it to the living room.
I am not sure if it is possible to connect the box to the PTO using the RJ45 socket and then distribute it to all the sockets in the house.
Can you advise me on the connection methods?
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Hello,
First, is the fiber connected directly to the box, or does it go through an intermediate box that is connected via RJ45 to the box?
It is only in the second case that you could move the box to the living room. But that would be a bad solution because you wouldn't be able to distribute Ethernet to the other sockets in the apartment. Except if it's a recent installation, with 2 Ethernet wall sockets in the living room, which allows for sending network back to the communication cabinet.
By the way, do you use the Ethernet wall sockets?
Hello,
The PTO at the communication cabinet, when there is one, is the right place, the box at the communication cabinet too.
I assume it's for a Wi-Fi coverage issue that you want to move the box to the living room, but it would be a better idea to add a Wi-Fi access point in the living room and leave the box where it is, even if it means turning off the Wi-Fi on it.
More and more, we are installing Wi-Fi networks instead of those from the boxes, except when living in a studio.
Now,
if your installation is up to current standards, since 2016, with 2 RJ45 sockets side by side in the living room, your project can be simply achieved by adding a switch to the communication cabinet. We've had several discussions of this kind recently in the cabling forum.
But again, the right place for the box is at the cabinet, and add one or more Wi-Fi access points elsewhere where you need, also consider mesh Wi-Fi networks that serve for this.
And there you go, there you are ....
But oh dear, how annoying the line spacing is !!
Here is the installation.
The two reasons are indeed the wifi network in the house, which is almost non-existent, and also the fact that the box is in the garage while I have space in the living room to hide it.
There is only one RJ45 cable for each socket.
I will therefore try to find a way to store the box next to the cabinet and put a wifi access point in the house.
Thank you for the quick replies!
It's true that with its Delta, Free doesn't help at all with the integration into a cabinet; it's great for studios, but not for homes.
It was already the case with the V6, but the Delta exceeds that.
A Freebox Pop would be more manageable already; plus, it's sold with a Wi-Fi access point (the Delta too, I believe, but the Pop might be a better choice if you're not considering the 8 Gbit/s connection).
I'm picking up here because actually the Freebox Delta has a built-in ONT, the fiber comes directly into it, so to relocate the box, you need to install a very long jumper or relocate the PTO.
So it's not possible to put an RJ45 cable between the box and the PTO.
However, in your case, the first three sockets are marked living room, dining room, and bar, are these three different rooms or the same?
So it would have been possible to bring 2 cords to the box if the ONT had been separate, but that's not the case here.
No, actually, I'm making a mistake because with the FBX, even if the ONT is separate, it's not an RJ45 cord that connects it to the box, but a DAC cable (with SFPs on the end).
So it is only possible with other (old) boxes, because all the recent ones have an integrated ONT.