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Converting Coax to Ethernet?
Posted on 3/18/23 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 3/18/23 at 12:10 pm
IT guy at work was telling me about an adapter that would convert regular coaxial cable connection to Ethernet?
Anyone familiar with this? I own a 1960's ranch with coax connections in almost every room. If there is an adapter that would turn those into Ethernet, that would be so awesome and cheaper than having my whole house rewired.
Any suggestions on what adapter to buy brand wise?
Anyone familiar with this? I own a 1960's ranch with coax connections in almost every room. If there is an adapter that would turn those into Ethernet, that would be so awesome and cheaper than having my whole house rewired.
Any suggestions on what adapter to buy brand wise?
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Posted on 3/18/23 at 12:14 pm to LaffyTaffy7
MoCA adapters at Amazon
I bought these a little over a year ago and they've worked flawlessly.
The setup is pretty simple and straightforward. Do a search for MoCA adapter setup and you'll get a pretty good idea of how it works.
I use this as the backbone for my Mesh network. One MoCA adapter in the upstairs loft where the fiber comes and connects to the primary router. Then, on the opposite end of the house there's another adapter for the router there to form an "ethernet" backhaul lane. The Mesh routers I use have ethernet ports on them to hardwire things like office PC. The rest of the devices are on wireless. Things like phones, tablets, media players, etc, that don't require a perfect connection.
I bought these a little over a year ago and they've worked flawlessly.
The setup is pretty simple and straightforward. Do a search for MoCA adapter setup and you'll get a pretty good idea of how it works.
I use this as the backbone for my Mesh network. One MoCA adapter in the upstairs loft where the fiber comes and connects to the primary router. Then, on the opposite end of the house there's another adapter for the router there to form an "ethernet" backhaul lane. The Mesh routers I use have ethernet ports on them to hardwire things like office PC. The rest of the devices are on wireless. Things like phones, tablets, media players, etc, that don't require a perfect connection.
This post was edited on 3/18/23 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 3/18/23 at 6:51 pm to LaffyTaffy7
If your house was built in the 60s, I'm guessing the Coax is not stapled to the framing lumber.
Best case: Have a phone/telco dude go to everywhere there is coax, take off the wall plate, and (ETA: literally) tie ethernet to the coax. Then he goes into the attic and pulls the COAX with the Ethernet tied to it to wherever the homerun (junction point) is. This way you just replace the COAX with Ethernet. It isn't that expensive, and COAX is one of the shittiest ways to transmit data in the modern era.
Worst case: The COAX is stapled to the frame. Phone dude will use a semi-rigid fish tape to send Ethernet up the wall into the attic and to the home run point. There will be one junior dude that probably makes $13 an hour, and the senior guy may make $20 an hour, and they'll use $75 (on the top end) of cable, and $3 per room in jack and faceplate costs. Each room can usually be done in 30 minutes or less. Especially if the Ethernet is run on all interior walls only, it's not rocket surgery.
If you try to use an adapter, any troubleshooting gets far, far harder, because of the multiple physical connections and the relative unreliability of COAX, yadda yadda. Have someone pull Ethernet to where you want it, it will be more reliable and less subject to failure than COAX run in the walls 50ish years ago. You will pay far, far, less to run proper Ethernet in any scenario, than you will to try to use COAX for data in a bunch of rooms once you consider the costs of calling someone out whenever you have data transmission problems, etc.
Best case: Have a phone/telco dude go to everywhere there is coax, take off the wall plate, and (ETA: literally) tie ethernet to the coax. Then he goes into the attic and pulls the COAX with the Ethernet tied to it to wherever the homerun (junction point) is. This way you just replace the COAX with Ethernet. It isn't that expensive, and COAX is one of the shittiest ways to transmit data in the modern era.
Worst case: The COAX is stapled to the frame. Phone dude will use a semi-rigid fish tape to send Ethernet up the wall into the attic and to the home run point. There will be one junior dude that probably makes $13 an hour, and the senior guy may make $20 an hour, and they'll use $75 (on the top end) of cable, and $3 per room in jack and faceplate costs. Each room can usually be done in 30 minutes or less. Especially if the Ethernet is run on all interior walls only, it's not rocket surgery.
If you try to use an adapter, any troubleshooting gets far, far harder, because of the multiple physical connections and the relative unreliability of COAX, yadda yadda. Have someone pull Ethernet to where you want it, it will be more reliable and less subject to failure than COAX run in the walls 50ish years ago. You will pay far, far, less to run proper Ethernet in any scenario, than you will to try to use COAX for data in a bunch of rooms once you consider the costs of calling someone out whenever you have data transmission problems, etc.
This post was edited on 3/18/23 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 3/19/23 at 11:36 pm to LemmyLives
If wifi is not your thing, you can purchase cheap MoCA adapters and get a great home system over coax.
MoCA 2.5: actual throughput speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps are possible. I have Frontier Fios 1Gb service and MOCA adapters and a bunch of small Network switches. It works great.
MoCA 2.5: actual throughput speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps are possible. I have Frontier Fios 1Gb service and MOCA adapters and a bunch of small Network switches. It works great.
Posted on 3/20/23 at 2:45 pm to LaffyTaffy7
EoC module.
Posted on 6/26/23 at 2:38 pm to Ricardo
quote:Can I use this with the AT&T gateway, and if so, do I still have the original wifi? Apologize for not knowing enough to form a good question.
MoCA adapters at Amazon
I bought these a little over a year ago and they've worked flawlessly.
Posted on 6/26/23 at 9:13 pm to AlxTgr
Yep, they'll work just fine. You can always add a router later if you desire.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 10:03 am to Ricardo
I have one device(Chromecast on patio) that needs help, so I was looking at options and these things keep popping up on my youtube feed.
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