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Originally Posted by Ohiopicker
Rick bb,
Thank you for the reply. I understand what you are saying, but aren't virtually all cable companies and home internet providers bringing wifi in on RG6 currently?
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Cable companies use very proprietary technology to push the signals for internet, TV and phone through the same coax cable. When it comes into your house it goes to one of their boxes that you either have to rent or buy. The raw signal is not in a format that your computer, WiFi router, etc. will understand.
That cable modem, (it's not really a modem, modem stands for modulator/demodulator which is not what that box does), converts the various signals into what your TV, and computer can understand. Most of them have WiFi access points built in to them.
Once converted into standard network traffic protocols it is transmitted best over a type of twisted pair wiring, called CAT5, or CAT6. WiFi of course requires no cables.
You "could" make RG6 work, IF you could find some old, (very old), coax bus PCI cards for you computer(s). But why use 20 year old and slow tech when your computer already has built in Ethernet?
You could also buy a cable "modem" for each computer and any other network device if you have a ton of cash you don't need for anything else.