Coax to ethernet converter

[omer sanilevich]

Hi, I live in an old house with thick walls, so there isnt much wires running through them. My house runs on wifi, and with the thick walls, the speeds are quite slow... The router is hooked up via a coax cable, and the computer next to it gets very high speeds because it is wired to it. I have a set top box in another room hooked up with coax too, and I was wondering if there is a way I could connect the PC which is across the room via ethernet? Thanks c:

 

[getochkn]

Nope. You could try powerline ethernet though, but depends on your house. Mine is a old house too, and I had to run ethernet through a few walls to get to another router and have 5 routers setup to get wifi and ethernet ports in other rooms of the house. My house has knob and tube wiring, so ethernet internet doesn't work for me, but it may if your wiring is newer. Basically you get two boxes with an ethernet port on them that plug into the wall and it uses the electrical wire to send the signal.

 

[omer sanilevich]

Nope. You could try powerline ethernet though, but depends on your house. Mine is a old house too, and I had to run ethernet through a few walls to get to another router and have 5 routers setup to get wifi and ethernet ports in other rooms of the house. My house has knob and tube wiring, so ethernet internet doesn't work for me, but it may if your wiring is newer. Basically you get two boxes with an ethernet port on them that plug into the wall and it uses the electrical wire to send the signal.

So, I can't use the coax to convert to ethernet or something? What if I got another router in that room hooked up to the coax?

 

[getochkn]

No. The coax cable just simply send a signal, it needs to be converted and a coax-to-ethernet box is called a modem. You could maybe get a second modem from your cable company, and pay for a second line, but then your basically paying for two internet connections.

Either look into powerline adapters.
Run a ethernet line to another router.
Buy a better router and hope the wireless penetrates.


Not a lot of other options.

 

[allennnn]

If the cable modem only has one ethernet port on it you need a switch and then to run an ethernet wire to the second pc or to a powerline adapter.

 

[bill001g]

The answer that you cannot use coax is incorrect. There are some restrictions on what type of cable tv you can run at the same time but you CAN use the coax in the house to extend ethernet. The technology is called MoCA. It tends to be very fast compared to the powerline devices. The main down side to the product is that most the advanced DVR systems are using a similar system and they do not coexist so if you are using the mutliroom view abilities with DVR this product will likley not work

Not sure why this is not more popular. It is very common for people to have coax tv cable in a lot of rooms but not ethernet.