Coax Outlet in Basement: How to make it Internet Ready?

[myHomeNet]

Hi All,

Greetings to all and hoping you can help. I have Comcast for my internet and have everything wired up in my living room which is the central location in my house. So the Comcast modem/router is connected to the coax outlet and all the devices connect wireless.

The issue I am now facing is that because I am working from WFH more often, my office that is located in the basement has mixed wireless reception. SOmetimes I will be in the middle of a web meeting and connection would drop, etc. I see that there is a coax outlet in the basement and so I connected my own modem/router to it and then connected my laptop via an ethernet cable to the router. But I dont get any signal.

Does comcast need to make that coax outlet active for me to get an internet signal or is that something I can do on my own?

Any help is appreciated.

 

[kanewolf]

You will have to check if Comcast will support multiple modems at the same residential location. Comcast definitely has to do several things to support that and there will undoubtedly be extra charges.

Since this is a basement, dropping an ethernet cable from the first floor may be the best solution.

 

[myHomeNet]

Ok. Thank You. I will try to drop an ethernet cable to basement or buy powerline adapters and see if it works better !

 

[kanewolf]

An ethernet cable is the BEST option. If you want WIFI then you can setup a WIFI access point tied back to the primary router with that cat5e cable.