Ethernet over Coax

[robinc]

This may be daft - but - we're buying a house that has a TV coax point in every room. My guess is that somewhere in the loft there's going to be a hub of some sort - still waiting for info about that. Now I know you can do ethernet over coax and I do remember with great <insert feeling> the fun I had back in the early 90s working in a local secondary school complex with RM PCs and miles of coax for the network.

What I have in mind is using these to feed wireless access points as an alternative to our current Tenda mesh system.

Just wondering if anyone here has done anything along these lines?

[Bill]

Now I know you can do ethernet over coax

I wouldn't recommend it...

During the mid to late 1980s, this was the dominant 10 Mbit/s Ethernet standard.

My bold.

[isirate]

I have an area of my house where it is difficult to run cat5/6 structured cabling.

Pre existing tv coax existed to where my networking cab is located. I run gocoax moca 2.5 adaptors on this link and it syncs at a PHY rate of 3500Mbps no problem. These are 2.5GE on the Ethernet side too.

My network is 2.5GE but currently I only have a 1GE switch on the far side of the gocoax, I can fill it up to full GigE line rate no problem (have not tested if they get to the full 2.5g). Latency across this coax link is approx 4ms

They seem stable and this is just off the bog standard TV cable that was pre installed.

You can find them on Amazon

https://www.gocoax.com/ma2500d

[robinc]

Hmmm.......... interesting!