rj6 for ethernet?

[mpassare]

Hello,
I'm very new to data wiring and wanted to know if my idea is a feasible one. My cable company until recently used a dual A/B system with two feeds into my home. From my basement, each line goes into a splitter and separate cable lines go to various rooms in the house. The cable company moved all channels to the A side, so the B side cable does nothing.

Is it possible to use the B side rg6 line for home networking? Does an adapter exist that allows a RJ45 connection to the coax cable? I'm trying to find the least expensive way to use my existing wiring to support faster connections than my wireless network supports.

Thanks in advance for any responses to my naive post...
Mike

[dkerr]

rj45 connectors using cat 5 networking cable has 8 wires, although computer networking rqeuires 4. rg 6 has 2 conductors, leaving you a couple of wires short for starts.

There is I beleive systems that use bnc conenctors thru a coax system, but I haven't use that or have seen one in use.

rj45 connectors will also not connect to coax.

Using high speed next working , you really do want cat 5 or better network cables. There is wireless systems available also out there, but could be more expensive but no cables to run.

[suemarkp]

I've never seen anything that converts ethernet to RG-6 coax cable. In the old days, there was "cheapernet" that used 50 ohm RG58 cable, but this was a 10 Mb system. And you couldn't just unplug something, it had to be replaced with a terminator.

What ethernet speed do you seek -- 100 Mb, Gigabit? You can get (in theory) around 50 Mb with Wireless G. Are you not getting advertised wireless speeds, perhaps because of the distance and walls?

Best and cheapest way to do ethernet is ushielded twisted pair on cat-5e or Cat-6. These should be easier to pull than electrical power wires, but some houses can be a challenge. Do you have any access from above via an attic or below via a basement or crawl space? You could even run the cables on the outside of your house like a lot of sloppy telephone installers if you have to.