NetGear is accepting preorders for their Coax-Ethernet adapter

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NetGear has started accepting preorders for their MoCA compliant Coax-Ethernet adapter. What's probably the most interesting part is that it allows you to extend your network, over existing coax infrastructure that's already in use by your cable service. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with the DISH and DIRECTV services.

Features:
  • Turns coaxial cable outlets into a high-speed Ethernet network connection
  • Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) supports uninterrupted HD video, gaming and high-speed networking
  • For use with both wired and wireless routers and gateways
  • Delivers up to 270 Mbps transfer speed†
  • Connect an XBox 360®, PlayStation® 3, Blu-ray player, Apple TV®, VUDU™ box, TiVo®, Slingbox™, DVR, NETGEAR ReadyNAS® storage, desktop or notebook PC
  • Works with DSL broadband and homes wired for cable
  • Data encryption ensures privacy and security
  • Not compatible with satellite television installations (e.g., DIRECTV®, DISH Network)

It retails for $229.99.

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Thanks to DeLicious for the tip!
 
That's pretty neat. Speed isn't bad considering how it's being transmitted IMHO. I guess it could be a good option for someone that didn't install enough network wire, but has coaxial wire where needed. That is a lot of older homes where this could be a very nice option and would prevent people from having to rewire everything.
 
like i was telling Dan, this is especially helpful for those of us where the old cable systems were A/B systems, so I have two sets of coax running through my house, only one of which is now being used. a totally isolated network via coax is available to me without running any new wires.
 
At the risk of dating myself, I find it interesting that we have now gone full circle. The original 10 megabit ethernet was big yellow coax followed by thin-net (smaller coax). So now we are back to......coax.
 
sic0048 said:
That's pretty neat. Speed isn't bad considering how it's being transmitted IMHO. I guess it could be a good option for someone that didn't install enough network wire, but has coaxial wire where needed. That is a lot of older homes where this could be a very nice option and would prevent people from having to rewire everything.
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Agreed - I was just thinking how far along network speed has come as I was downloading the Windows 7 beta from Msoft today at approximately 650. I need to test and see what my internal Gigabit network is really getting ...
 
electriclight said:
At the risk of dating myself, I find it interesting that we have now gone full circle. The original 10 megabit ethernet was big yellow coax followed by thin-net (smaller coax). So now we are back to......coax.
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And if we could add a token that would make transmissions deteministic and better suited than ethernet for real-time control, we would have pro/regressed to ARCnet.

In reference to this BACkward progress, we could call it BACnet and use it for Building Automation and Control
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacnet ) ;-)
 
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