Faster network between remote TV tuner and house network.

   / Faster network between remote TV tuner and house network.
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Sorry, kind of a side question because I am in a valley and remote TV reception at my tower site interests me. Are there provisions for an antenna rotor?

BTW, I run 75 ohm coax five hundred or so feet with Highwire media converters to Eithernet. Far better than CAT 5 or 6.
Thank you. I've looked into coax to ethernet converters, the look pretty interesting.


I don't know how you would manage the rotor signaling remotely. I bet back in the day, there were people doing that. Back before satellite, I saw a person that had an antenna up on a ridge, pointing in direction toward, TV station and ran coax down to another antenna, that was in sight of and pointing to another antenna on his house. He got a few channels so was a king in the area, when it came to TV.

I could see, and i'm thinking of doing this, but a second antenna and HDHomerun to connect it to. In my location, i get a number of channels/stations almost due south, get TV from Centralia/Chehalis, down to Longview area and into Portland where i can pick up their channel 10 PBS. I've kind of compromised the reception on all of the south facing channels, so sometimes have poor reception. If i turn the antenna toward the north east, i can pick up some channels that i currently receive from the south and that would allow me to turn the southern facing one so i could get better overall reception.

The device im using is just two tuners in a box with coax connector for TV antenna and ethernet connection for output. I have a nvidia shield, think android box, that sits on the network and connects to TV via hdmi connection.
 
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I agree, mesh wireless is the only way to go.
I have an orbi, and it works great.

Both wireless mesh networks and wireless repeaters have a lot of bandwidth overhead and will have worse performance than a single wired network.

Video streaming eats bandwidth and is time critical. If you want reliability and speed separate the networks and keep your streaming on a dedicated wired run start to end on its own gigabit switch. Web surfing works fine on wireless so keep your other network devices on that device.
 

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