Ethernet over coax?

paradigm said:
You won't be able to use BNC (even if you could find NICs that work with modern OS's), as the impedence used by BNC co-ax is different to TV aerial co-ax. The terminators won't work and the cards won't see a connection.



I've never been impressed by homeplugs. Perhaps it depends on your level of networking knowledge, but when it's your day-job and livelihood, homeplugs are cheap and dirty.
Click to expand...

This unfortunatly, one of our guys was in a similar situation and we fitted home plugs about 12 months ago. 3 sets of plugs later (2 have failed completly.... Burned out, no life at all) and I still get regular calls. Now it could the wiring or some other reason but we have just found them hugely unreliable.

Personally I would go with some enterprise grade wireless N gear and see how you get on.
 
if u dont need the phone sockets in each room u could check what cable is used for them.

i've seen houses in the past using cat5 for dual phone sockets.
they are both twisted pair cables afterall
 
VinceB1 said:
This unfortunatly, one of our guys was in a similar situation and we fitted home plugs about 12 months ago. 3 sets of plugs later (2 have failed completly.... Burned out, no life at all) and I still get regular calls. Now it could the wiring or some other reason but we have just found them hugely unreliable.

Personally I would go with some enterprise grade wireless N gear and see how you get on.
Click to expand...

For the price of enterprise grade gear you could afford to have several sets of plugs in the cupboard as spares. If one dies you just swap it out and press the buttons to re-sync the encryption key. Wireless gear (even enterprise grade) isn't exactly a paragon of reliability either, I've encountered plenty of bits of kit dying. Plus even when you're in the same room performance isn't anywhere near a set of Homeplug AV's, never mind going through several walls.
 
Generally I've always found Homeplugs to be excellent, the only caveat is that they're obviously only as good as the wiring they're piggybacking on to.

As another option though, Victorian houses typically have plenty of underfloor space and opportunities to run wires between storeys - it might be worth you doing a proper job of running some Cat5e/Cat6 in a concealed manner - you'll never have to do it again then!
 
Why would you use coax these days? I would be looking at future proofing more than anything as I can't see coax being suitable for the bandwidth needed to transfer/stream HD content.
 
there are many different uses and types of coax.

the coax the op is talking about is a tv aerial rather than the old ethernet type
 
paradigm said:
I've never been impressed by homeplugs. Perhaps it depends on your level of networking knowledge, but when it's your day-job and livelihood, homeplugs are cheap and dirty.
Click to expand...

as is anything else that can be used here bar cabling it properly.
 
paradigm said:
So cable properly then.

I'll always cable properly and use multiple Wireless APs to ensure seamless wireless throughout the house.
Click to expand...

To be honest, cabling properly might be the only choice. When I started the thread I didn't expect to be guaranteed a good alternative to this for my needs. In fact a lot of the time it's not what I come to forums for, after this other thread I decided that there really was no way around the issue and bought a Juniper SRX210. For this thread I think the conclusion is also going to be to forget cutting corners and just do a proper job. It won't be easy but at least I will end up with something that will be sure to do what I want it to!

Thanks for all your comments.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom