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Using RG-6 cable plant for home LAN

Hello all, I have read that Verizon is using existing coax for the inside portion of new FIOS roll-outs. My question is this: since my home has RG-6 coax strung to just about every room in the house, is there a way I can utilise this instead of wireless, which is finicky, or fishing CAT5 to all the rooms, which is time-consuming and expensive? I realise coax hasn't been used for LAN applications since the days of good ol' Thick Ethernet, but I was wondering if there was equipment that could take advantage of the copious bandwidth of coax cabling in a more -- modern -- fashion.

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Syd Barrett
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There are equipment that can take the use of antenna coaxial wiring for data communications.

Here are some techniques I have heard of:

  1. Cable modems: They communicate through cable TV infrastructure that consists of antenna wiring and active equipment. The user end of communciations cable modems are quite cheap, but I think the device needed on the opgther end of cummunications (normally on cable operator headend) I think is expensive special device. Standard most widely used nowadays is DOCSIS
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  1. There are various proprietary device that can modulate the data communications to around 900 MHz or so frequency so they can co-exist on antenna wiring on house.
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  1. There are some variations of HomePNA system (version 2 or 3) that can run over coaxial cable. Running HPNA 2.0 Over Existing Cable/TV Coax
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  2. There are passive baluns that can convert 10Base-T ethernet to antenna cabling (some even with antenna signal together on the same cable). For those to work you need to have antenna cabling wires in "star" fashion and putting a special coupler/hub in the center of star or you need to have point-to-point coax connection. Several companies make those.
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Tomi Holger Engdahl

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