Cut the cable, what now for the coax?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It will cost me ~$40 U$D to find out. When I'm down hard the livingroom TV is my primary.

[Angrboda]

The Firestick in the living room seems to be uncertain about the current connectivity establishment. That set is as far from the router as you can get here and still be indoors. If that doesn't resolve I want to up the game.

ISTR something about a Fire device with a better WiFi antenna than the standard Fire stick. I might be misremembering something, and even a better antenna might be marginal if it's far away from your router, but it might be another option to consider. There are also WiFi extenders, but those probably cost just as much, and from what I know of the one device that I've looked at, they may halve your bandwidth at each step. Still, half the standard WiFi bandwidth is probably plenty for a Fire stick.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I grubbed through the junk box and found an extender I'd forgotten. I'll hook that up with a lan cable and see what happens.

[Fireball]

It depends on the impedance of the cable, 50 ohm or 75 ohm, no idea what cable tv uses

Cable TV uses 75Ω impedance to match the TV standard.

[Jehanne]

Any systems out there for using coax  cables for wifi? I have coax from the cable days right by my router but have no idea if it can be used to wire into the wifi system.

Please assume I know next to nothing about this kind of thing. Thx.

You'd need a Cat5/6 cable for an AP.  Coax is for cable modems only.

P.S. Some cable modems have built-in Wi-Fi, they are a 3-in-1 combo -- AP, local switch and local router, not to mention a cable modem ("modulator/de-modulator".)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Any systems out there for using coax  cables for wifi? I have coax from the cable days right by my router but have no idea if it can be used to wire into the wifi system.

Please assume I know next to nothing about this kind of thing. Thx.

You'd need a Cat5/6 cable for an AP.  Coax is for cable modems only.

https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Bonded-...b_title_ce

[Anomalocaris]

How are you getting connectivity to your WiFi router? Is it through a coax cable modem? If so, why not use the additional coax cable length to move the cable/router to a spot closer to your fire stick so as to improve the wireless connectivity between the router and fire Stick?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have a TV, blu-ray, a laptop and a PC in the office. The router is hooked into the modem and everything is LAN'd off the router. I'll see what kind of coax options those two have right now, but I would still need something like the Actiontec at the other end, I think. I don't know if the coax connection on the TV would share connectivity with the Firestick.

[Jehanne]

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-XAVB101-P...Ethernet-A

You'd need a Cat5/6 cable for an AP.  Coax is for cable modems only.

https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Bonded-...b_title_ce

You could also do the same through your home's wiring:

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-XAVB101-P...B001AGM2VI

I am not sure what the point would be; Cat6 is good up to 1 Gbps (depending, of course, if you have a router/switch with a GigaEthernet port) and goes up to 100 meters.

P.S. As I said, originally, you still need a Cat5/6 cable for your AP, eventually, even if such is extended from a Layer 1 device that you linked to above.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If this works at all I'll see if my handyman can run some legit cable for me.