Moved to Sky Stream? Your old coax is just sitting there

[MartinInAyrshire]

and can run up to 2.5gbps to wherever you need it in your house.

I’m new here and just got anted to mention it because it was an absolute game changer for me and my home network.

If you’ve switched from Sky Q / Sky+ / Virgin / Satellite to Sky Stream you now have coax cabling in virtually every room that’s basically sitting there doing nothing.

I’m sure people here know about this but I’m amazed how little MoCA seems to be known in the UK. These devices have converted the coax in my house to 2.5gbps Ethernet runs and have given me full wired backhaul for the first time.

Using EE’s WiFi 7 devices, some 2.5gbps switches and MoCA devices at either end of some coax runs, my home Network is now absolutely mental.

iPhone 16 pulls 1.6gbps on WiFi (and often more) while PS5, gaming laptop etc are all wired right to the ONT via a switch, regardless of where they are in the house.

I was relying on WiFi backhaul before this and there was no other option.

Anyone who wants to use their coax can take advantage of this but if people have moved to Sky Stream especially it’s a no brainer.

 

[ChrisD.]

Yup, great option for those in new builds who didn't have it flood wired or wasn't an option. I'm looking forward to version 3 coming out (10 Gbps).

 

[MartinInAyrshire]

Yup, great option for those in new builds who didn't have it flood wired or wasn't an option. I'm looking forward to version 3 coming out (10 Gbps).

Yes, I built my house in 2015 and was thick as mince, thinking WiFi would just keep improving. We are out in the sticks and at that time had no phone line, no cables into the house at all. We relied on a mast from a local windfarm and we got 10 down, 0.5 up, on a good day. Mobile signal was GPRS.

So it’s been a journey!

 

[picnic]

Hadn't heard of these before, when I had my burglar alarm installed back in'95 I got the installers to run some thin coax for 10Mbps networking (lol). Do these work over thin ethernet coax as well as the traditional TV cable?

 

[Caged]

Probably coax designed for ethernet is fine. Houses built in the 80s and 90s with TV aerial distribution in them will use the cheapest crap possible with barely any copper screening.