So - I bought a new house a couple of years ago - it's a brand new construction.
The house has coax and ethernet (cat5e terminated in RJ11) in most rooms.
I also have AT&T gigapower (fiber) - when they did the install, they took one of the terminated RJ11 lines, and re-terminated it in RJ45 and that runs to the AT&T modem - so now there's internet in that one room. I've setup that box to bypass its router functionality and it goes to a router I control - which gives my house wireless and wired connections for that one room.
I'd like to get to a point where I can re-terminate the rest of the RJ11 lines as RJ45 (since they're all CAT5e) - but the lines for the rest of the rooms (both Coax and CAT5e) are dangling out side the side of my house, disconnected, except for the one that AT&T rigged up.
So I'm struggling with how I fix the issue of getting those remaining lines all rigged up given the current setup.
My current thought is to use the existing coax lines and do a MoCA setup where I have a line run out from the router, go to a Actiontec ethernet to coax converter, then have that go to the coax line in the same room, then outside rig that line to the input of a splitter, then have the other coax lines terminated and connected to the splitter as the output, then go connect Actiontec ethernet to coax converters at any of the coax areas I need and running the ethernet at those to a switch. I think this solves the problem of getting ethernet into the rest of the house, but it doesn't use the CAT5e that's already run... maybe that doesn't matter if this works? Any one see any big issues or have any other suggestions?
The house has coax and ethernet (cat5e terminated in RJ11) in most rooms.
I also have AT&T gigapower (fiber) - when they did the install, they took one of the terminated RJ11 lines, and re-terminated it in RJ45 and that runs to the AT&T modem - so now there's internet in that one room. I've setup that box to bypass its router functionality and it goes to a router I control - which gives my house wireless and wired connections for that one room.
I'd like to get to a point where I can re-terminate the rest of the RJ11 lines as RJ45 (since they're all CAT5e) - but the lines for the rest of the rooms (both Coax and CAT5e) are dangling out side the side of my house, disconnected, except for the one that AT&T rigged up.
So I'm struggling with how I fix the issue of getting those remaining lines all rigged up given the current setup.
My current thought is to use the existing coax lines and do a MoCA setup where I have a line run out from the router, go to a Actiontec ethernet to coax converter, then have that go to the coax line in the same room, then outside rig that line to the input of a splitter, then have the other coax lines terminated and connected to the splitter as the output, then go connect Actiontec ethernet to coax converters at any of the coax areas I need and running the ethernet at those to a switch. I think this solves the problem of getting ethernet into the rest of the house, but it doesn't use the CAT5e that's already run... maybe that doesn't matter if this works? Any one see any big issues or have any other suggestions?