this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
67 points (100.0% liked)

Do It Yourself

7718 readers
1 users here now

Make it, Fix it, Renovate it, Rehabilitate it - as long as you’ve done some part of it yourself, share!

Especially for gardening related or specific do-it-yourself projects, see also the Nature and Gardening community. For more creative-minded projects, see also the Creative community.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Making any progress, you slackers? Tell us about it!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Planning to replace the old TV coax cable with Ethernet cable so everybody in the house gets their own low-latency connection for gaming. The problem is that TV cable is installed in a daisy chain while Ethernet has a star topology, and there's only room for one cable from the basement to upstairs. So at the moment I'm pondering whether to keep the daisy chain and place a switch in every room, use some sort of MoCA (Ethernet over coax) adapter or go all the way and install fiber.

Also, we should really replace the carpet in the master bedroom with hardwood soon.

(Edit: spelling)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll go ahead and say that I'm using a MoCA connection to my main PC, and have no complaints about it at all. It's the 2.5Gbps by ScreenBeam.

Not sure how exactly that works with the daisy chain, but brief reading seems to indicate that it should be fine to add a MoCA endpoint in each room, unless you wanna just rewire the upstairs with a single switch and Ethernet cables to each room up there, assuming you have room to run all the cables in the upstairs only.