Ethernet over coax

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I'm movin to a retirement village, the dwelling is wired with coax. I've heard about MoCa, can someone with experience give me some pointers? When I ask Google I get images of small connectors for a few bucks to bigger adaptors worth a few thousand. My initial plan was to use the coax conduits to install ethernet cable. May still be the best option. I want to have ethernet connections at four points in the house. Any ideas?
 
Mampoerstoker said:
I'm movin to a retirement village, the dwelling is wired with coax. I've heard about MoCa, can someone with experience give me some pointers? When I ask Google I get images of small connectors for a few bucks to bigger adaptors worth a few thousand. My initial plan was to use the coax conduits to install ethernet cable. May still be the best option. I want to have ethernet connections at four points in the house. Any ideas?
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Is the coax in a pipe. Was the coax for tv? What connectors is on the coax. How big is the house. You got a router. And pic's please.
 
upup said:
Is the coax in a pipe. Was the coax for tv? What connectors is on the coax. How big is the house. You got a router. And pic's please.
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The house has been refurbished with new coax cabling. The coax outlets are next to the power points about 300 mm from the floor. There are two outlets in the living room and one each in two bedrooms. The connectors are the same as on the back of the DSTV decoder (twist-on? not sure of the name) The cable is in a 19mm PVC conduit in the wall which stops above the ceiling. I'm waiting for Openserve to install fibre. They will supply the modem, I have a router and switch for further distribution. I have no photos as I'm not at the house now,
 
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The house has been refurbished with new coax cabling. The coax outlets are next to the power points about 300 mm from the floor. There are two outlets in the living room and one each in two bedrooms. The connectors are the same as on the back of the DSTV decoder (twist-on? not sure of the name) The cable is in a 19mm PVC conduit in the wall which stops above the ceiling. I'm waiting for Openserve to install fibre. They will supply the modem, I have a router and switch for further distribution. I have no photos as I'm not at the house now,
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I got a big house and my fiber router cover the whole house and yard with wifi.
Best is to wait for the router to come and test it's coverage. If you want to pull lan cable , unscrew the tv connector, fasten lan cable with insulation tape and pull slowly, if you know where it is going. My router is in the center of the house.
 
Pull draw wire ( fishtape ) in with coax , then pull new ethernet and original coax in with draw wire , be careful not to get stuck.
 
Just use the coax to pull through actual Ethernet.

Easy peazy.

Why on earth is there coax to start with?
 
Well did you buy the place? If not its going to cost you a lot to replace the coax cables and fittings again when you move out(or die), if you are even allowed to remove them.
Easiest and cheapest will be just to use ethernet to coax cable or adapters. Getting those stuff in SA is probably a problem.
 
You need Coax network cards, each must have a Coax T and and a Terminator. Doubt these thing exist anymore. they good for 10Mbps. Just stay away from copying MP3's.......
 
thehuman said:
Dstv satellite dish point in rooms i asume
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Bit excessive to have that in every room, but maybe I just read too much into the OP.

Ironically had this in two places when I bought my house and used it to pull speaker cables and Ethernet as I have no intention of ever watching broadcast television.
 
upup said:
Dstv , telephone and perhaps intercom.
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Telephone wouldn’t be coax though.

And most intercoms I’ve seen are used Ethernet, although without connectors just as multi pair wiring.

Dstv makes sense though.
 
Coax ethernet?
Sounds like this was from the 90s when they were running Token Ring
 
Very cool video on the history of Ethernet. Filled my curiosity as to why the cables are twisted

 
@Mampoerstoker - If this is sectional title then just make sure the coax isn't part of some form of communal installation if you're going to remove it or tamper with it.

If it were me I'd try fish tape ethernet cabling within the existing conduit and if it's too tight then, as others have suggested, use the existing coax as the draw wire once you've determined which goes where...

Dependent on layout and where Openserve/FNO install you might be way better off simply running a single uplink to the opposite side of the home and install an wifi AP there (or where it makes most sense) rather than running cabling all over.

There's really no upside to use coax for networking...
 
I've done internet distribution at two retirement places in Cape Town
There was also co-ax fitted in 1996 when the place was built, but due to many structural work, using the co-ax as a draw wire did not work

We used multiple wireless access points (in the end over 130) and it supplies 50mb to residents. A WAP in the passage outside the units covered 3 or 4 units
 
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