Wi-Fi over Coax

Re:Wi-Fi over Coax by jpizza on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:34AM (#22996179)

This is a very timely post for me. My contractor mentioned this to me last week. It caught me totally off guard and seemed counter intuitive to my knowledge of wifi connections. Pretty neat and thank you for sharing.

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Re:Wi-Fi over Coax by mceachen on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:05AM (#22996512)

Wouldn't it be more "future proof" to use something like cat7 rather than coax?

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Re:Wi-Fi over Coax by jrockway on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:08PM (#23001243)

I think what Wifi-over-Coax is trying to get around is having to coordinate multiple access points. Wifi breaks down particularly horribly when some of the stations and APs can't hear each other. By only having 1 AP, you avoid some of that problem. (Of course, stations can still interfere with each other. So I'm not sure how useful this is in practice.)

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Re:Wi-Fi over Coax by snovv_crash on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:57AM (#22997027)

I think the idea is that if you already have coax pulled (eg for TVs), you can just connect it to a WiFi access point instead and put an antenna on the other side.

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