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Dont forget Powerline adapters - if you have it all on one loop they are surprisingly effective if you have extra power sockets!

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If you go that route MOCA over your cable tv coax works very well too!

I recently bought my first house, and there was only one coax outlet in the entire place, and zero ethernet. I wanted to move where the coax terminated, and after some searching around, found MOCA. Had never heard of it before, but a hundred bucks or so later, and it's a fantastic solution.

for those of you using MOCA, what kind of bandwidth do you get? And what kit would you recommend?

I ask, as my brother-in-law just finished a house where he had asked the contractor to put in internet cabling everywhere, and... drum roll... yes the contractor put in coax everywhere. I tried powerline adapters, but could only get ~30-40mbps (he has a 1gbps fiber connection from the ISP) over them.

I use the MoCA 2.5 adapter by goCoax. I won't say I recommend it since I haven't compared it to other adapters, but it appears to do what I want it to do and I get about 2Gbps through the adapters. Every one I could find seemed to be around the same price point ($60-$80 per adapter) so I just went with a well reviewed one.

I would definitely recommend if fishing cat6 is not an option and you would need to open up walls. Unless your BIL has a lot of kids and their friends over who all like to stream different 4k movies from a NAS, I can't imagine any normal user with 1gbps WAN finding 2gbps LAN insufficient.

I think powerline adapters might work very well in the UK, where sockets on each floor are connected in a ring.

In my small apartment in Denmark, with new wiring, they are terrible. I get about 30-50Mb/s rather than the advertised 1200Mb/s. I assume the signal has to go back to the distribution board to get between my adapters.

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