Timeline for How can I use existing satellite coaxial cable to carry my internet connection?
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| Oct 29, 2022 at 14:24 | comment | added | Triplefault | @user253751 very true. Cables are the best. However, LondonGuy put cables out of scope for this question, "I ... don't really want to run CAT5 cable throughout the house." Although, apparently that's what was done. | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 13:57 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @Triplefault Don't underestimate the possibility of just installing the correct cables, by the way | |
| Oct 29, 2022 at 12:11 | comment | added | Triplefault | @user253751, yes, it is slow. Our family isn't so engulfed by internet services as some are :) After I found out that beswald's and WannabeCoder's Moca's do gigabit or better, I think I may have done better to get them instead. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 19:26 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | Note that 100Mbps is considered quite limiting these days. The cheapest internet plan in a well-developed area might offer 100Mbps maximum, so this is okay as long as you're using that plan. If you find yourself sharing files between two devices in the house (e.g. streaming video from your PC to your TV) you will find that 100Mbps is somewhat limiting. It may work for video streaming, but only just. | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 1:58 | comment | added | LondonGuy | I ended up getting some CAT8, probably and overkill, it was the cheapest easiest option. | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 19:31 | comment | added | Armand | @SimonB Yes, I was stoked that my first ethernet connection in college was newly-upgraded thinnet, not the thicknet. | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 18:28 | comment | added | Simon B | @MartinBonnersupportsMonica Youngster. My first experience was thickwire Ethernet. Horrid stuff. As was the overly heavy dropwire needed to connect from a "vampire" tap on the Ethernet cable back to your computer. The plug on the end of the dropwire was completely useless, and would fall out the back if you so much as touched the computer. | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 16:53 | comment | added | Triplefault | :) 10Mbps... Reminds me of the Mac Plus my dad got in late 80's. The entire OS fit in half of the 800kB disk. When System 7 came out, and it took the entire 800kB, we thought, Bloated! | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 16:24 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | I am amused, because my first encounter with ethernet was running over coax - but that was thinnet,(aka 10base2), and was good for a whopping TEN MBits/s. | |
| Oct 26, 2022 at 16:00 | history | answered | Triplefault | CC BY-SA 4.0 |