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Internet Through COAX To Detached Garage 350 Feet Away

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This summer we build a detached garage in the process Xfinity/Comcast came out to hook up service and the Tech told me to just run COAX to my garage to extend my service out to the garage. I have buried the cable and since have found no solution to have a WIFI / Internet signal in my garage. From what I have read I probably should have just buried CAT6 cable but now I am pot committed. Please help.

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  1. As a consolation, CAT 6 has a max length of roughly 300 feet, so burying CAT 6 would have been the wrong choice.

    That said, your options depend on if that coax is attached to the Comcast network. If it is, and it probably is if it was a Comcast tech that did the job, you’ll have to get a second cable modem registered to your account. If the cable terminates in your house, you could get a pair of ethernet over coax adapters. You’ll still have to worry about getting ethernet to the cable’s house end and a WiFi bridge for the cable’s garage, so I hope your garage is powered.

    Alternatively, you could ignore the cable and go with a pair of directional WiFi antennas with their associated hardware.

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