I have a delema. I live at the opposite end of the house from were the router is, there is also a coax jack. So the question stands, 50 foot Ethernet, or use adapters? Bye the way, It’s my first build.
What the hell has this got to do with first builds?
Anyway, the adapters to take ethernet down to coax are quite expensive. You would be better off using ethernet because its cheaper and will be faster.
In this order...
Cat5e
Powerline Adapters
Wifi
I personally wouldn't screw with sending it through coax. Run cat5e.
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Deffinitely Cat5e. I had lots of drops with powerlines. Even when in the same room never reached gigabit speeds.
@Zanginator, @Jcat, and @Theonewhoisdrunk are all correct. Cat5e is going to be cheaper and more effective than any other solution.
One small tip: Go to your local home improvement store, get a big box of cable staples or nails or whatever they have. I got simple nails with h-shaped plastic pieces, a box of something like 50 or 100 pieces, for less than $50. And they are lifesavers. Run it up high, on the ceiling or at the top of the wall where it's out of sight, and run it with a decent tension on it (being creative with those staples) so it's straight and doesn't look horrible.
It really won't take you very long, and you'll thank yourself later.
Edit: Please, for the love of whatever deity you believe in, even if it's a Flying Spaghetti Rabbit, try to spell words correctly. It really does bother some of us. Disregard if you're dyslexic, but if you are dyslexic, look into specialty fonts -- they exist.
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the problem is I can't drill holes in the door, or leave the door cracked open
sorry, fast typing and spell check, I'm not dyslexic, I love to read, but fast n00b typing and bad spelling don't go hand and hand, and that's me for the most part. Sorry
Found a way to daisy chain them from a coax to bnc then bnc to ethernet
You realize you're going to have all the problems of all 3 at once, right?
I know coax is bad, but what about bnc? A lot of guys said this was for surveillance, not internet.
Tell me something, how tight is the door?
And yes, BNC is often used for video according to wikipedia. I was unfamiliar with it -- I don't really run surveillance. But you'll max out a connection intended for a single low-res video stream from a local camera pretty quick, I think.
Same as Coax, just a different header.
The main issue is going from to Coax or BNC is the fact it only has 2 wires. Whilst Gigabit requires 8 wires (4 twisted pairs), 100Mbit requires 4 wires (2 twisted pairs) and 10Mbit can run in 2 wires (1 twisted pair). You will be severely limiting yourself down to that speed. Plus the degradation that may occur when converting to the other cable type may just make it unusable. As I mentioned previously the active adapters (to go faster than 10Mbit) are quite expensive.
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the door closes into a very small overhang, maybe I could cut part of that off and run the wires that way.
Remember, ethernet is slim. ;)
meh, maybe with some magic I could run some cables and maybe steal the tools required.
What are you, an anarchist?
Yes, not the forum member, the philosophy is something that I agree too.
@ $10
They also make flat cat5 and 6 cables. I'm on my phone other wise I'd add a link but Amazon should carry them
Thank you, I live close to a staples and this cost 20 ish usd. Thank you srsly.