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> You can extend ethernet from any coax outlet to any other coax outlet. not hole punching, not central vacuum or whatever.

Man that would be perfect, except the main coax is already being used for my internet as is. I wish HFC for the NBN would hurry up and die already.

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MoCA and cable internet use different frequencies so you can still use them. I'm currently using those adapters with comcast.

Interesting. I'll look into it and see whether it's possible.

While my highly-tuned Wifi 6 setup at home is honestly quite excellent (even for my competitive FPS gaming needs, and even wireless VR has been brilliant), it would be nice to ditch it for higher reliability.

Problem is, I'm pretty sure my rental has a single coax socket for cable TV (which is used for my NBN internet connection now). I'll have a look though!

Also Ethernet to bridging MoCA does add on about 3-5ms of latency round trip. Whether this is of any concern is another thing, it probably isn’t for most - but it is something to know.

As I mentioned in the top post that it runs over the top of docis which is what the cablecos use which is 800Mhz and below and Moca is above 1Ghz so they coexist.

Yeah fair enough, though I think the bigger challenge for me is that most places I've lived in, in Australia, have a single cable connection point in the lounge room and that's it (for Foxtel). Though I'm going to check!

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