That approach will not work with CenturyLink unless you run another cat5 homerun to the low-voltage panel from the room where you put your router. CenturyLink installs an ONT on the outside of your house and then uses a cat5 from the ONT to one of the rooms in your house where you want to install the router (they don't use coax). However, I guess you could consider putting the router in the low-voltage panel and then you would have cat5 homeruns to all of the rooms. I wonder about the Wi-FI strength.
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Originally Posted by pacjag
My experience in a brand new home in Monarch Grove:
Internet or cable provider will put connectors on the coax cables.
Cat5 cables are set up for phones and connected to a block in the low voltage panel.
You could use the Cat5 for Ethernet by putting a switch in the low voltage cabinet and connecting the the other end of one cable to your router.
I used one coax to connect to xFinity modem/router in the main room and use Wi-Fi for just about everything. I did connect my Smart TV via Cat5 to the router.
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