Setup for new house, why is COAX still a thing?
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imgur.comPosted May 22, 2022, 6:54 PM UTC
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imgur.comEdit: The COAX question/comment was more tongue-in-cheek than anything.
Just went through a new house build, didn't want to bring my old 12U cabinet over and opted for this Startech 6U vertical wall-mounted cabinet.
The server will be moved onto the shelving or on top of a dresser when I get around to it.
Network/UPS
- Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2 Pro + rack mount accessory
- Ubiquiti Enterprise 48 PoE
- Ubiquiti Enterprise 8 PoE
- (n) Ubiquiti Flex Minis
- (2) Ubiquiti U6-LR
- (1) Ubiquiti U6-IW
- Tripp Lite 1500 VA UPS
Server/NAS
- Synology DS-1019+
- ESX Host
- Asus Prime Z590M-Plus
- Intel i9-11900K
- 128GB RAM (Trident Z DDR4 3200MHz)
- Samsung 980 PRO 250GB NVMe
- (2) Samsung 980 1TB NVMe
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Check out MoCA, basically a drastically improved version of powerline adapters, it claims gigabit+ speeds from point to point. I'll be giving it a shot soon, the premise makes sense but I'm withholding judgement until I see it in action.
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I like those patch cables. Who makes them? Rack install looks really clean btw
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Thanks, patch cables are Monoprice SlimRuns.
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SDI still uses coaxial cables, it's a digital video transmission standard, still in use for professional broadcast studio (TV) applications, the main advantage over HDMI or other digital video cables is that it can be up to 300 m long without any special boosters, amplifiers or relays.
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It's for television and radio antennae and/or cable television.
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Cable TV
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COAX can be used for OTA channels when used with an antenna!
Just get a receiver for that and connect the TVs over ethernet or wifi.
And what cable type will the antenna connect with?
You just need a digital receiver, like SiliconDust, and then use a client like Plex in your TVs to get live TV. The antenna connects to the receiver, which then connects to your TV via Ethernet.
I have a HDhomerun. I know how it works. My point was to say even with that you still need coax to connect the antenna to the hdhomerun.
Well there's that, yeah; I suppose that can be useful for if/when society collapses.
Cable internet. Cable TV. OTA TV. RF transmission/reception for HA devices.
I'd still pull one to every place I think I might have a TV one day.
Never hurts to have an analog option, having both Ethernet and coax is great
Not sure about the US, but cable and OTA are 99% digital nowadays. There might be one or two analog channels remaining, but usually everything is digital.
Not switched, but broadcast signals.
Coax can be used for networking, but you need an adaptor. Not sure of speeds these days...
It can deliver 1.5gb internet with no issues, and the cable modems out now are apparently capable of 5gb over coax. There’s more copper in one coax cable than there is in a Cat-8 cable, and more insulation, so I’d imagine it could pretty easily handle 10gb speeds.
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Good enough for gigabit, I ran that in my house until I got the CAT6 wiring done.
Read up on this because I was curious, and Coax doesn’t really have a “known” maximum throughput, depends on the hardware/firmware managing the signal - seems to be thought that it could easily handle 10gb/second with no issues, and possibly a lot more than that. When I search coax max bandwidth I found places saying it could handle 15 megabit/second from years ago, and later saying 800mb/S
Seems like the limitations are not related to the coax itself at all, just whatever gear is pumping the data through it. I know 1.5gb works - had a 1.5gb connection. And while the most I could get on my PC was 960mbps, I ran 2 computers to the connection at the same time and the combined speed between the two was closer to 1.6gbps. It wouldn’t surprise me to see 40gb or even 100gb via coax in a few years. Actual gigabyte internet over copper may be possible - how cool would that be?