Subj : Re: CAT5 to CAT6
To   : Warpslide
From : Bob Roberts
Date : Sun Jan 03 2021 09:59:34

 Wa> The original builder (for this whole neighbourhood) had the local cable
 Wa> provider come in to run coax, cat3 (for phone) and cat5e to each bedroom,
 Wa> only coax in the living rooms and one cat3 in the kitchen for some reason.

Everyone wants a landline in their Kitchen!  :-)

 Wa> I like how they ran the cables, everything is its own run and terminates
 Wa> in the basement near the breaker panel. For the coax, they all go to a
 Wa> splitter that's fed from a coax coming in from the street. This sounds
 Wa> like it would be easy to add a MOCA adapter if I wanted a 2nd network
 Wa> connection in any of the bedrooms. 

This is pretty much how my house was wired, except everything is a homerun to a box in the Master Closet.  I'm able to disconnect or link the various coax running to rooms from there.  There is a bit of Ethernet, but not going to every room (I want to smack whoever made that decision).  I have a switch in the master closet which feeds the Ethernet off the router, and also feeds a MOCA adaptor which I use as primary connectivity to my office where my desktop is.  I started with the original MOCA spec, that was only around 250 mbit, but have since updated the adaptors to the gigabit spec (MOCA 2.0) which works nicely.  One of the adapters died about about 4 years, but it was an easy replacement.  

Bob Roberts
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