My wife and I are buying a house and during the inspection, I noticed something a bit peculiar.
1) The house has coax TV outlets EVERYWHERE... no joke, the house has 10 rooms and there are 19 coax feeds into a central panel in the master closet.
2) Not a single data port to be found anywhere, and only 2 cat 3 phone jacks.
So I did a little google research and found that there are indeed devices for allowing ethernet over coax. Some are uber expensive and some are not too bad. We have 3 boys and I would like to put all three of their workstations in the game room, run a single network line to a small switch in the game room and hook up all 3 computers. I would also need to run at least 1 line to our office. Everything else would be wireless, only one other item is even stationary and it already has wifi ability and would be placed on the other side of the wall from the router (literally 6 inches away).
My question is, has anyone actually done this and does it work at all? Are there specific types of coax cabling that works and others that do not?