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We are remodeling our house so we fished coax and ethernet through the office, to TVs, and to strategic mesh hotspot areas. When I hooked up my modem to the ne
by __mharrison__ 3y ago
We are remodeling our house so we fished coax and ethernet through the office, to TVs, and to strategic mesh hotspot areas.
When I hooked up my modem to the new coax in my office, the modem appeared to connect. However, my TPLink Deco (mesh network) wouldn't connect to the modem. I could hardwire my laptop into the modem and it worked. Confused, I spent a few hours, unplugging, resetting the Deco (never want to do that again), and finally giving up.
I told my electrician about it when he passed by a few days later and he cut off the coax tip and put a new one on. Lo and behold it worked. The Deco connected.
I'm still confused. His insight was that maybe the Deco was tracking the signal and the tip didn't have a clean connection.
- nocsi 3y agoIs there a reason you’re willingly using coax in 2023 when you wired Ethernet as well? There’s hdbase-t if you want to pass media
- sgerenser 3y agoI read it as coax from outside to the cable modem, not between 2 Ethernet capable devices.
- __mharrison__ 3y agoYes this.
- ianburrell 3y agoCoaxial is useful if want to put cable box or modem in another room.
- newjersey 3y agoI have charter/spectrum but not by choice. If I were buying/building a house, I would give preference to places that have fiber.
- akvadrako 3y agoHere is the cable company recommends you only put the modem within a couple meters of the outside connection and not run it through the house. That is for 1.4gbit though, so the requirements might be tighter.
- __mharrison__ 3y agoThat might explain why I only get 850M down instead of 1G... However, I wanted my modem in my office so I can know if my network goes out during work (I teach online) and try to mitigate the issue.