My (incredibly basic) understanding of coax attenuation is that the higher the frequency the higher the attenuation (amount of signal loss per foot of cable). In general, those other items are sending things from 45 Mhz to 1000 Mhz, and MoCA will happily transmit in the 1000 to 1500 Mhz frequency range. This is a standard developed back in 2004 for using bandwidth sections not used by cable TV or DOCSIS (how cable internet gets to you over coax) on a coax cable for short-run network connections. The last option I saw was to try to use Multimedia over Coaxial or MoCA. In my case, I was getting 2% of the promised “gigabit” bandwidth and they were actually slower than the wifi issue I was trying to fix. While they worked fine for me if both adapters were on the same power circuit, jumping the signal through the circuitbreaker box dropped the bandwidth significantly. These take the existing AC power wiring that’s already run throughout your house and add a data signal on top. The next attempt was using powerline adapters. With no one device (at least that I own) would be spanning across both frequency spectrums at the same time and wanting to stay as close to gigabit line speeds as I could adding mesh routers wasn’t particularly appealing. And while Ubiquiti advertises it as “Gigabit” they get that number by summing the maximum physically possible bandwidth of both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radios together. Chaining together a bunch of WiFi radios together is not the first choice for low latency connections. I decided to leave that as a last resort. My first thought was to grab UniFi’s Mesh Router. ![]() My wife (who is generally speaking, wiser, kinder and an all around better person than I am) convinced me that drilling an insanely large numbers of exploratory holes around the house for the mere possibility of running a single Cat 6 cable was probably not the best course of action, so I explored less destructive alternatives. And as The Oatmeal points out, the only thing worst than no internet is slow internet. That one corner - the one place where I actually do work people sometimes pay me for - had WiFi speeds 90% slower than everywhere else. So after slamming in the UniFi WiFi system, I had rock solid internet almost everywhere in my house, except the desk where I actually work from home.
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