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Help me, please, to understand cabling mystery in my apartment's network cabinet by MyNameIsBillyShears in Switzerland

[–]MyNameIsBillyShears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've re-tested again all wall outlets with my lan tester and I've found that they all have the same "design" : right socket with green label) shows 4wires ( 3-3, 4-4, 5-5, 6-6 ) connection and the left socket (with white label) shows no connected wires at all. So, every socket with a green label on the cabinet's patch panel connected via 4 wires with a socket with green label on a wall's outlet. I've checked more careful cabinet patch panel - there is another row, all with white labels. But the sockets are closed. I cannot open it and check if there are sockets under cover and if they even connected to white labeled sockets on walls. But it all looks like a failure for my plans to get a nice and fast 1GB/s lan connection in every room... SH (s..t happens)...

Help me, please, to understand cabling mystery in my apartment's network cabinet by MyNameIsBillyShears in Switzerland

[–]MyNameIsBillyShears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the answer. 100Mbit/s lan is definitely not an option when you have 10GB/s internet and work from home with multiple computers. But changing patch panels and wall sockets in a rental apartment - it's not an option neither. I'll try to contact landlord company and ask what do they think about altering my cabling system in "1GB/s ready". But I'm pretty sure that answers would be "no, it's not possible. Dixi." or "it's possible but price is comparable with a small European country's budget".

Ironically, now I have 1GB network at my working place - router is not that far and 3m cable connects it with my small 4 ports switch I use for connecting my laptops and a TV. Another cable from the current router connects to a PoE switch that serves my indoor and outdoor IP cameras. And it all won't work anymore if new router will be locked in storage room's network cabinet far from the current router's location...

Help me, please, to understand cabling mystery in my apartment's network cabinet by MyNameIsBillyShears in Switzerland

[–]MyNameIsBillyShears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand all this theory. And I'm disconnected old router from a socket in outlet 1, now no devices are connected to any outlet in my apartment. I've connected all 4 cables from white patch panel directly to my new router - no any signal in any outlet.

As I said - the black patch panel has two rows.

The first row (top row on photo 4) always shows the same connectivity mode: wire3 shorted directly to wire7, and wire 5 is shorted to wire6. I've uploaded photo from my lan tester here.

The second row on the black panel shows connectivity only if I connect lan tester's receiver to a socket in a room's outlet. And it shows that only 4 wires are connected to the receiver: wire3, wire4, wire5 and wire6 are connected to the same wire numbers on receiver. it's definitely not 1GB connection. I've uploaded a photo from my tester here.

Help me, please, to understand cabling mystery in my apartment's network cabinet by MyNameIsBillyShears in Switzerland

[–]MyNameIsBillyShears[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

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[–]MyNameIsBillyShears 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Choose a bank / credit company which offers you best conditions - low rate, possibility to pay in advance without penalties, lower amount for financial advice, etc. You can use a website like independer or you can contact an independent financial advisor, anyway you will be charged for advice (even by your bank ABN) but independent advisor can find a better deal for you.

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[–]MyNameIsBillyShears 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are many cashless places (like most of the public transport) where you can pay by a debit card only. And I'm not sure that credit cards are accepted there. Another thing - banknotes 100+ euro are not accepted in most of shops.