Is a TAE socket no longer needed?

The connection provider installs an ApL after the building entry and, if applicable, a "erste TAE" as a handover point into your jurisdiction. For your home cabling into the individual rooms, you can safely consider TAE as "relics from the ISDN era." Today, wiring is consistently done with eight cores to each socket; the contemporary connection interface is Western 8P8C, also known as "RJ45."

Thank you for the answers. We will get DSL later. But I didn't quite understand it. If we don't have a TAE socket installed now, as the BU said, where does the Fritzbox get the "internet signal" from? Does a network cable go directly from the ApL to the Fritzbox?

We will get DSL later. However, I did not fully understand it. If we do not have a TAE socket installed now, as the BU said, where does the Fritzbox then get the "internet signal" from? Does a network cable go directly from the ApL to the Fritzbox?

You will still get a TAE socket. This is usually installed by Telekom or similar next to the APL. You then plug the Fritzbox into this TAE socket. The only thing is that there are no other TAE sockets in the house.

Yep, that’s how it is. Let Telekom install the TAE where you want to connect the modem later. Those things are actually unnecessary since you need an adapter to RJ45 right after anyway, but with Telekom everything just takes a bit longer...

I also chuckled a bit two years ago when they installed a socket in the new building that I had already removed in the old building 10 years ago (because I switched to cable). But it doesn’t matter. It won’t be used for the foreseeable future anyway. Maybe never...

Does a network cable go directly from the ApL to the Fritzbox?

The termination point line technology is the transition from the local network (Telekom authority) to the subscriber network (Telekom authority). Only at the telecommunications connection unit does the transition to your jurisdiction occur.

This "first TAE" is today, because it is outdated technology in the home network, at the same time also the last one.

As a rule, you will install your patch panel near the ApL and TAE, from which then connections are made between the router / Fritz or similar and the room sockets (Western "RJ45", star-shaped and, as mentioned, generally 8P8C today).

You don't have to understand it yourself if the electrician understands it and sets it up accordingly