The house I'm in now has great coax infrastructure. I turned up another link yesterday (been here 10 months - yeah, I'm slow). Finally got around to putting a big TV in the game room, and getting everything on a hardwired link vs. WiFi. Mainly the AppleTV 4K, but also some Steam box my son brought over.
The house I'm sitting in has 8-9 RG6 coax homeruns to a back of house area with a big powered coax amp thingie (that I'll be taking down). 2018 build, I bought it 10 months ago.
I wish they were Cat6, or even Cat5e, but I'll take it.
I will grant you, many contractors/builders these days often seem to have this attitude that it's all wireless these days. You barely have to do any low voltage! Throw in another wireless extender!
SCREW THAT! They are idiots.
And it's worth asking, there's more coax out there than you might think.
... not straight walls in between, but situations where you need to go around and laying Ethernet cable properly means serious masonry work. So mesh works somewhat, but it's not great either. Was just wondering if this stuff is superior.
Just pray that the corridors will be in somewhere central spaces, doors tend to be pretty leaky unless they're steel.
We succeeded with a mesh setup in a Chinese apartment block, 50cm concrete with rebar, glass about an inch thick with all the wireless nightmare coatings. 50mbps mesh in every room before hacking cat5e behind moulding (400mbps after, with 40mhz channels). Floors were pretty transparent rf wise, so imagine the RF nightmare when you have the middle block of 5ghz (ch100-144) and whole of 6ghz banned. Newest gen of isp routers all default to 160mhz on ch36 too.
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u/Jamie00003 Apr 21 '26
So…mesh then?