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What's the difference between routing a coaxial cable to the middle of a room versus an ethernet cable? At least you can get long flat ethernet cables.
by yincrash 11y ago
What's the difference between routing a coaxial cable to the middle of a room versus an ethernet cable? At least you can get long flat ethernet cables.
- fixermark 11y agoI think there's insufficient difference, and that's the original poster's point. The fact that the device is aesthetically pleasing isn't a misfeature (other than perhaps bumping it in the cost bracket, if it even did so). But as long as it's connected to a bulky, obnoxious Surfboard by a physical cable anyway, it's not something you'll be using as a room centerpiece unless you intend to put an unusual amount of work into cable-routing.
- yincrash 11y agoI think I was being misunderstood. Even if it wasn't connected to a surfboard (assuming the OnHub was also capable of being a modem), you would then need to route a coax cable to the middle of the room. There's 0 reason to keep the surfboard physically close to the AP, and IMO, it's preferable to not keep it close (because that way I can keep my network switch near the modem instead hidden behind all my electronics never to be seen). Either way, you will be routing a cable to the center of the room, you're just deciding whether you're routing a coax cable or an ethernet cable.
- simoncion 11y agoI know from experience that I would rather run Cat5 than coax to the center of a room. :)