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I've heard rumors that you can use an adapter to plug Coax into a Wifi antenna port on two different routers, and run "Wifi", but it's actually over a cable rat
by Dwedit 3y ago
I've heard rumors that you can use an adapter to plug Coax into a Wifi antenna port on two different routers, and run "Wifi", but it's actually over a cable rather than airwaves. I have not tested this or verified its effectiveness, or tested if actual wireless devices will see it or not.
- dogma1138 3y agoThat doesn’t work well at least with commodity routers and if you are laying cable you might as well just do Ethernet.
- sneak 3y agoI think the idea is to re-use existing coax cable to link the devices without laying any new cable.
- dogma1138 3y agoYou can do that with MoCA but not with wifi routers. TBH this is a bit of an odd one Wifi Meshes are extremely good these days and provide excellent coverage as long as you spend money on actually decent equipment if you use your crappy ISP provided router then ofc repeaters won’t work.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y agoIt absolutely is possible to run Wi-Fi over coax, but you'd want it to be 50-ohm coax with an attenuator, not a straight shot through 75-ohm CATV cable.