UPT cable - What is it and where to install?

aah, some light is shed on the dark. Thanks, Malz. I understand that much better. So can I connect an access point for the router to the UTP cable? Is that what it's for?

for example

The component in question is the following:



You should have such a socket installed wherever you plan a network-enabled device with a wired connection or a telephone/fax/router, etc.

Attached is a link to a very recent thread. The first post is directly relevant for you:


You don't need a network socket in every room and every wall corner, but I would do basic wiring. For example:
- everywhere a TV is supposed to go or might possibly be placed
- office
- where the access point should go

Do you possibly have someone in your circle of acquaintances or friends who knows something about the subject and can guide you a little?

The standard includes a UTP connection. The electrician planned this in the living room. What is the connection for?

This is simply a telephone cable being referred to: Unshielded Twisted Pair. Pair means a pair of wires; even a telephone cable for a residential unit usually has two pairs of wires. Twisted means that each pair is "twisted" together, colloquially speaking: braided like a braid. This serves for "crosstalk attenuation": the energy flow radiates electromagnetically onto neighboring wires; due to the twisting, this effect and the same effect from the other wire of the same pair cancel each other out. Unshielded means that each pair individually has no shield (foil or braid). It is therefore suitable for telephony, also for networking, but only to a limited extent for Gigabit LAN. At the end of this cable, the electrician will provide a telephone socket as the end of the "office line". Essentially, the plan should show that a telephone socket, not a power socket, is to be installed at this point. You don’t put these on power cables, but on telephone cables. UTP is the simplest standard – it is only installed so that it is not missing for a subsequent tenant or owner, even if you yourself want to use wireless internet. Although I am not sure whether you mean that it should come into your apartment without any cable (via satellite or mobile network), or rather only be wireless within the apartment (WLAN) but still come into the apartment via copper cables. Personally, I would also lay an empty conduit alongside or upgrade to network cables.