I know that there's MoCA...which can apparently do up to 1gig over home cable coax, but my home only has one cable jack so it wasn't an option.
OTOH, the phone jacks were RJ45's & CAT5 (was always annoyed that the RJ11 plugs didn't quite sit nicely in the wall jacks....but now I use VoIP...so I use the phone jacks to help run my network around my home) But, still I use wireless more and more now. My home is kind of L shaped....where there's no SE corner. I recently replaced my old (4th Gen) Airport Extreme with a new 5th generation one in my living room (SW corner). The 4th Gen moved to the north end (bedroom) replacing my Airport Express. Though when I discovered that I could use my phone wiring....I moved the wires at the demarc to a switch...and it connects the phone jack in north bedroom to phone jack in living room, which is next to the only cable jack .... and cable modem & router. My desktop was over to the south....so I was WDS linked (used to have a WRT54GS router by the cable modem...and no computers wired here at all....and a Belkin F5D7130 at North and South ends) for a while....though one day I got fed up with the interference on my wireless surround speakers and gave into to running speaker wires along the walls....and while I was at it...I ran CAT5 along too...so my desktop is wired now. It was after this that I took over my phone wiriing. But, the bedroom on the West side....no luck with its phone jack. If I reset the switches, it work for a while...but then it'll drop. So, between the old (4th Gen) Airport Extreme and the new 5th gen one...I had picked up a used 4th Gen Airport Extreme on eBay to do WDS Airport Extremes. No wifi clients to this Airport Extreme. The West bedroom is set to use the 5Ghz side for WDS. Most of my wireless devices use 2.4Ghz...only have two laptops that will use 5Ghz. Original one is mainly used in the livingroom, so that's why I had gotten first Airport Extreme. Recently I got another laptop for my bedroom (NW corner)...which is why I rationalized getting the new 5th Gen and making the swap of my Express (which had been setup as 2.4Ghz only.) I suppose if I was crazy...I could move the Express into my bedroom and set it as 5Ghz only :) ... wait that doesn't sound crazy, I think I will. You might think I really like the Airport Extremes....though actually I don't. Because I don't have any Mac's at the moment, and also don't have any Windows boxes at the moment....though I do have a Windows VM, so I can keep up with Quicken...and run TurboTax. But, since I went to all the trouble to setting up FreeRadius on my ubuntu servers to control wireless access in my home....I decided staying with Airport Extreme was easier and getting a 5th made sense. There's some odd thing about the 4th Gen Airport Extreme...where the radio power is cut in half when its running g instead b....and a bit more is lost in n mode. Which the 5th Gen fixes. My wireless is still not perfect...but I don't plan to replace all the plaster and wire-mesh lathe anytime soon. Even though it makes it hard to use my ham radio.... cellphones.... get tornado alerts.... Oh, I'm doing gigabit for most of my wired network. ----- Original Message ----- > my airport (b/g) seems to be degrading, so i am looking to revisit my > home > networking solution. currently, i have an airport extreme serving a > mac mini, > a macbook, a printer and an ipad 3. i also have a express acting as a > wireless > bridge to a hub which has a couple of PCs hanging off it. > if you view my house as an approximate square, the airport extreme is > in > the SW corner, the airport express is at E. reception for the various > ipods > is iffy at the desired locations (SE) and the ipad reception is poor > at NW. > reception at the airport express is adequate. > generally, i am pretty happy with apple stuff, but am open to other > solutions. > i can, but would rather not, go fishing cables etc. there is a > prewired network of > RG-6 coax that could be used to get signals from teh cable modem > (colocated > with teh airport extreme). > any suggestions? > ------------------ > Andrew Hume (best -> Telework) +1 623-551-2845 > [email protected] (Work) +1 973-236-2014 > AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and LOPSA -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library
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