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Hi.

So, I've been unable to find a definitive answer or guide to what I'm trying to do here.

I will coax all throughout my new house, and will be getting Uverse internet. What I want to do is to utilize the coax cable instead of running network cable all over the house.

Can I do this?

I've found these http://www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutions/connect/moca/dxn-221-hd-mediabridge-coax-network-starter-kit
It looks like I'll need one pair for each room.

Is there a coax switch I could use? ie: Uverse Router->Cat5 to Coax router->then convert coax to cat5 again at other end. Seems like i'd need a lot of those dlink units otherwise.

All the coax cable is for the satellite dishes up on the roof. I have no plans to get cable or satellite service, so it would only be handling network traffic.

Edit: also, no home phone is involved here.
Edit2: Also, TV will be OTA. Uverse is for internet only.

Is there a good guide somewhere that someone here could recommend for this?

Thanks,
john


 
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The diagrams in you post come on to the same thing. If you can afford the boxes you could instead of the splitter put a bunch of moca boxes and then hook them to a switch. You would in effect have lots of point to point connection over their own coax or you could try a couple of smaller groups.

MoCA tends to work better than the powerline things when you coax everywhere especially if it all home runs back to one location. Many of the older installations were connected one after another with lots of splitters.
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The technology you want is called in general MoCA. It has not been real popular because many of the DVR solutions use similar and conflicting technology to do their multiroom solutions. Now some DVR actually use MoCA compatible devices but things like directtv single wire system that lets you run multiple receivers off a single cable does not work on cable you have MoCA boxes attached to.

Been a while but I am pretty sure you can have more than 2 devices..i think the limit was 8 but like the powerline devices every device you add reduces the bandwidth for all the rest.
 
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That's the part that concerns me the most. But data and information seems to be lacking on the interwebs. (Or maybe it's there but it's more higher level and not at the noob level).

Anyways, do you know which of these would be a better setup? I think the first one, without the coax splitter?

First option:
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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByGH7nAzw_IQOVAxVTMtRERsWU0/edit?usp=sharing

Second option:
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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByGH7nAzw_IQOVAxVTMtRERsWU0/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks,
John
 
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bill001g

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The diagrams in you post come on to the same thing. If you can afford the boxes you could instead of the splitter put a bunch of moca boxes and then hook them to a switch. You would in effect have lots of point to point connection over their own coax or you could try a couple of smaller groups.

MoCA tends to work better than the powerline things when you coax everywhere especially if it all home runs back to one location. Many of the older installations were connected one after another with lots of splitters.
 
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Thanks for the info. I still need to map the coax out, but it looks like I will have the ability to run new CAT5e/6 to most of the house. A couple of spots will need MoCA most likely. I think I have a good basis to start mapping and laying things out now tho.

Thanks,
John
 
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