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    Help me, please, to understand cabling mystery in my apartment’s network cabinet

    Issue explained in the first comment.

    Photos:

    1. Typical network and power outlet in my apartment.
    2. Socket 1 is connected to a router provided by my actual provider
    3. In a storage room I have a cabinet like this – where a fiber-optic socket was recently installed
    4. Patch panel view (sorry for the quality)

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    Posted by MyNameIsBillyShears

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    1. MyNameIsBillyShears on

      Dear Swiss gurus and people who knows network cabling particularities.

      The situation is:

      1) In my apartment I have several Swiss multimedia outlet (Kombidose / Kombi-Anschlussdose?) that contain 2 RJ45 sockets (LAN + phone?), 3 power sockets and several sockets for coax cables connection . You can see it on a photo 1.

      2) I’m connected to my current provider via copper line. And router is connected to one RJ45 socket. You can see it on a photo 2.

      I never used any outlets in other rooms.

      3) I also have a network cabinet in a storage room, where a fiber-optic socket was installed recently. You can see it on photo 3. So, I’ve decided to switch my current 500Mbit provider to another one that offers 10Gbit via fiber-optic (Galaxus, btw). I’ve got a new router from him, connected to fiber-optic socket, I see that Internet led is on – there is a connectivity.

      4) Network patch panel in the cabinet looks like this – check photo 4 (sorry for the quality). You can see that the second row of this black patch panel is fully used by short cables which are connected to white lan sockets (bottom line), these white sockets probably go directly to rooms outlets.

      Now I want to start using rooms outlets and get 1GB lan connection in every room. But I cannot understand how I should connect my new router to lan sockets in the network cabinet. I tried to connect cables from my router to the first row of the black panel – no signal. I have a lan tester and it shows that every socket in the first row has the same shortage connection – 3<-7> and 4<->5.

      The most confusing thing is – if i disconnect ANY cable in the second row of the black panel – my “old” router starts showing “No connectivity” and I have no internet connection. Don’t understand why it happens and what should I do to be able to connect my new router to network cabinet patch panel and get lan connection in every room’s outlet.

    3. Cum-Collector420 on

      First you need to exactly figure out where the swisscom provider copper comes into your house. It could be a purple RJ45 socket. Or it could be the RJ45 with the green clips in your network cabinet.

      You can also use the fiber input in your network cabinet. Its called a OTO Dose.

      Then from your Router you’ll need a connection to the network cabinet.

      Then in the cabinet use a Patch Cable to connect it into a Network Switch.

      From the network switch you need to make a patch cable to each of the black RJ45 Modules.

      This will make a network connection to each RJ45 outlet in the other rooms.

      If you have trouble finding the copper input just use the fiber optic input from the OTO Dose and plug it into your Router. Then you should have 5 RJ45 Outputs in your Router than can be connected to the black modules in your Network cabinet with patch cables. if 5 is enough you dont need a Network switch. I recommend Kat 6 unshielded Patch Cables.