[Solved] Connecting devices to the Internet through a telecommunications box - a router in the living room or

Good morning,
I would like to ask for advice. The apartment in developer standard has a telecommunications box with optical fiber and one exit to the living room. I want it to be possible to connect several devices to the Internet via cable (smart home gateway). Which solution would be better (assuming both are possible)?

1. Placing the router in the telecommunications box, connecting it to the living room using an existing cable, and installing a switch in the living room to which I will connect my devices via cable

2. Connect the input and output in the telecommunications box with a short cable and only place the router and my devices in the living room.

Thank you in advance for your help

The second option will probably be more advantageous.
The box is probably not in a good place to broadcast WiFi from.

mateuszm7 wrote:

Good morning,
I would like to ask for advice. The apartment in developer standard has a telecommunications box with optical fiber and one exit to the living room. I want it to be possible to connect several devices to the Internet via cable (smart home gateway). Which solution would be better (assuming both are possible)?

1. Placing the router in the telecommunications box, connecting it to the living room using an existing cable, and installing a switch in the living room to which I will connect my devices via cable

2. Connect the input and output in the telecommunications box with a short cable and only place the router and my devices in the living room.

Thank you in advance for your help

Are there cable outlets from the box to other rooms? Will you also want to have a cable connection in other rooms? In this case, the router MUST be in the box, because you will not return from the living room to the box because you have used up the only cable. WiFi can be a separate device in the living room, i.e. the access point itself, because WiFi in a box often with a metal door is a rather poor idea.

If the living room is the only place where you want to have a cable connection, the second option seems logical because you will take a WiFi router and you will not hide the WiFi in the box.

m.jastrzebski wrote:

mateuszm7 wrote:

Good morning,
I would like to ask for advice. The apartment in developer standard has a telecommunications box with optical fiber and one exit to the living room. I want it to be possible to connect several devices to the Internet via cable (smart home gateway). Which solution would be better (assuming both are possible)?

1. Placing the router in the telecommunications box, connecting it to the living room using an existing cable, and installing a switch in the living room to which I will connect my devices via cable

2. Connect the input and output in the telecommunications box with a short cable and only place the router and my devices in the living room.

Thank you in advance for your help

Are there cable outlets from the box to other rooms? Will you also want to have a cable connection in other rooms? In this case, the router MUST be in the box, because you will not return from the living room to the box because you have used up the only cable. WiFi can be a separate device in the living room, i.e. the access point itself, because WiFi in a box often with a metal door is a rather poor idea.

If the living room is the only place where you want to have a cable connection, the second option seems logical because you will take a WiFi router and you will not hide the WiFi in the box.

Currently, the installation looks as follows: optical fiber and coaxial cable are connected to the box, and a coaxial cable and twisted pair cable go out from the box to the living room. From what I learned, UPC provides the Internet via a coaxial cable, so in this case I was thinking of connecting both ends of the coaxial cable in the box and installing the router in the living room, and then using twisted pair cable to return to the box and install the switch there and extend the cabling into two other rooms (currently no cable outlets). When it comes to the Internet via optical fiber, I think I incorrectly described the possibility of connecting optical fiber and twisted pair cables in a box and installing a router in the living room. In the case of optical fiber, the router would probably have to be in the box and from there there would have to be a twisted-pair connection to individual rooms.

Does this make sense?

Is it better to choose internet delivery via coaxial or optical fiber?

If I installed a router in a box and then in the living room I would like to connect several devices by cable (e.g. access point and smart home gateway), would it be better to extend the cable for both devices to have a star topology, or can it be split somehow (possibly a second switch)? ?

To sum up, you know nothing.
Please determine what medium (fiber optic or coaxial) will provide your service. If fiber optic, ask whether you get a router from them or an ONT (fiber optic-twisted pair converter).
And then you can wonder what to place optimally where.
Generally.
In practice, there is no difference for you whether it is coaxial or optical fiber, in terms of the quality of the Internet itself. I also doubt that you would have a choice, because it makes no sense for the operator to hang two types of devices in the building. They will probably have 1 infrastructure, when the new building will be 99% optical fiber.
You can place a second switch in the living room. It`s not optimal, but in my opinion it`s more than acceptable in home conditions and it will work.
If the Internet was not provided, the following option would work perfectly: a wired router in the box, a small HEX S type, 3 cables for 3 rooms, a switch in the living room with all devices connected to it. It can also be a WiFi router with 4 built-in LAN ports, operating in access point mode, so you can use it as a switch and AP. Just one box less.

The solution will be as follows: a switch in the box and a router in the living room (two twisted pairs run parallel to the living room)