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Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution?

Posted by timothy on from the point-to-point dept.

watanabe writes "I just moved from a house with Cat5e wiring to a house with ... a whole bunch of coax cables. Like, my living room has five coax cables coming out of a hole in the wall. All of them go back up to my attic. The house is big, (and I like it, thank you), but I have realized that our digital usage pattern (media server + squeezeboxes + remote time machine backups to a linux box) will not work without wiring. I am currently bridging some old Linksys WRT54Gs to the right places, but of course, that slows everything down. This got me thinking: 100mb ethernet is four wires, yes? And I have four wires for every two coax cables. What about a two coax-head -> ethernet jack setup? Has anyone done this before? Searching online only gives me $100+ coaxethernet transceiver type boxes. At that price, a HomePNY system would make more sense. I'm willing to solder if I have to, but I first wanted to get advice and holes shot in my plan, if there are any."

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  1. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, I have found that Cat5 provides just as many options as cat5.

    I admit though, my testing may not have been exhaustive.

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  2. Re:ATT Uverse runs over coax by Anonymusing · · Score: 5, Funny

    sorry, I realize my post contributed nothing.

    This may be the most profound comment I've ever read on Slashdot.

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  3. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cat5 can do better if you coax it.

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  4. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    You do realize ethernet originally ran over coax, right? Google '10BASE2'

    Yup, and guns used to load the bullet from the same end it shoots out of.

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  5. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 by mini+me · · Score: 4, Funny

    And cars use to run on electricity... oh wait.

  6. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 by JamesP · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm gessing you can get a Monster Cat5 cable for an absurd amount of money, that's got gold plated connectors and electrolytes and stuff...

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  7. Re:ATT Uverse runs over coax by Anonymusing · · Score: 5, Funny

    And with that, we complete our tour of Slashdot.

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  8. CATV is cat5 in Roman by mangu · · Score: 4, Funny

    To use CATV cable for cat5 all you need to do is you run X-Base-II with L ohms terminators. Or would those be LXXV ohms?

  9. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Funny

    that's got gold plated connectors and electrolytes and stuff...

    It's what networks crave!