How to connect the Internet in a new house?
Electricity, water and gas do not exhaust the catalog of utilities necessary for life today. They are joined by the Internet, the absence of which we do not even want to imagine. What is the best link to choose and what to do to use it efficiently throughout the house? Let's take a look at the available options and best practices.
What kind of internet for your home
What kind of link we can choose depends primarily on the offers of local providers. In general, from fixed lines in the city, we can count on ADSL/VDSL using the telephone line, Internet over the cable TV network, Ethernet estate connection/structured network in the building or fiber optics. In sparser locations, Wi-Fi connections are usually available, offered by local providers. It can also be assumed that mobile technologies (e.g., LTE/5G) are available throughout the country, which can also be used to have shared Internet at home. Assuming that we have all the options to choose from, from the technical and functional side, the best fixed solution is undoubtedly fiber to the home (FTTH - Fiber To The Home). When it comes to mobile technologies, it is best to actually check the range and achievable LTE/5G transfers of the various providers, such as with an LTE router (e.g. FRITZ!Box 6820 LTE) and prepaid starter kit.
Flexibility above all
Since we don't live in a perfect world and you can't always have what you want right away (for example, a fiber link is under construction and won't be ready until next year), it's worth preparing your network infrastructure for changes in providers and access technologies. For this purpose, you can get a router in advance, which has several ways to connect to the global network. A good example of this would be aDSL routers i dSL routers FRITZ!Boxes that have a built-in xDSL modem, compatible with all versions of digital subscriber lines available in Europe, and additionally have a dedicated Ethernet WAN port, to which you can easily connect an external fiber optic modem or cable modem. The absolute champion in the competition for flexibility in the FRITZ router palette!Box is FRITZ!Box 6890 LTE, which in addition to the built-in VDSL modem, WAN port, still has an LTE modem. In addition, the device can use two lines interchangeably, for example, if the VDSL line fails, it can automatically switch to LTE.
How to make WiFi throughout your home
Nowadays, it's also hard to imagine a home without Wi-Fi. While a centrally positioned router with an access point is usually sufficient in a smaller space, for a house, speeds may be slow in some rooms. Such problems are most easily solved by using a Wi-Fi signal booster, which on the one hand receives the radio signal from the main antenna and on the other transmits it further, to other devices. If at the time of finishing the house we have provided for the installation of Ethernet cables in the walls for the structured network, we can use devices that communicate with the central router by cable, and further signal in their environment already share by radio.
If it turns out that in our house we need to use a larger number of amplifiers, it is worth to get devices that support Mesh technology which greatly simplifies the configuration and use of the expanded Wi-Fi infrastructure.
