Ethernet over coax

Vertigo

Vertigo

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Appreciate there are a few threads on this but they're all ancient so rather than resurrecting...

Am looking into this as a solution for a specific problem but it seems all the MoCA adapters (and perhaps even the standard itself) are US-based.

Has anyone tried using any such adapters here in the UK and, if so, what models would you recommend and what were the results like?
 
Trying to get Ethernet from upstairs to downstairs in my parents Victorian house.

The house is built like a fortress which makes Wifi a nightmare and trying to run Ethernet internally between floors is impractical.
Currently using a powerline solution but it's very shaky and keeps falling over.

Wondering if I can repurposes some old TV RF cabling to do the job. If that fails my only potential solution is actually to run Ethernet externally down the side of the house.
 
Be aware that MoCA is designed to run over cable TV grade cabling, the horrible coax with very little shielding in that was thrown into every house here in the 1980s is not going to perform well at all.
 
You can get 20m flat ethernet cables that work fine (I use them) isn't that easier?

eta - so you already have coax wired between rooms/floors?
 
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If its currently unused, can't you use the coax to pull through ethernet into the walls (pull out the coax and in goes the ethernet at the same time)?
 
batfink said:
If its currently unused, can't you use the coax to pull through ethernet into the walls (pull out the coax and in goes the ethernet at the same time)?
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That's a possibility, assuming the old cabling would even budge after so long.

Think I'm giving up on this idea and may just have to bite the bullet and run Ethernet outside the house.
 
Pulling cables through is a bit of a pipe dream I think. As soon as the cable turns a corner it's not going to move, if it's clipped anywhere it's not going to move. It's an option if all the runs are done in conduit but that won't be the case for UK home in the vast majority of cases.

Run external grade cable outside, hide it behind a drain pipe.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Am looking into this as a solution for a specific problem but it seems all the MoCA adapters (and perhaps even the standard itself) are US-based.
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Coax? This used to be entirely normal in the 90s. Do you want 5 Mbps or 10 Mbps? :)

Vertigo1 said:
Trying to get Ethernet from upstairs to downstairs in my parents Victorian house.
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Drill a hole in the wall to run a cable outside, run an external grade cable up the outside of the house, then another hole to get it back inside.

Caged said:
Run external grade cable outside, hide it behind a drain pipe.
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This.
 
Victorian property here and I ran an external grade CAT6 cable under our floor, up and out the rear of the house and up the wall behind a pipe into my office.
 
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I saw a fake clay downpipe on a villa in Spain used to conceal all the air conditioning pipes on the outside of the building and it totally concealed them. You could always add a fake bit of cast iron-effect pipe in the right sort of place if you want to maintain some sort of cable path for the future.
 
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