Fixed that for you.
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Ethernet cannot be split.
Terminate, plug in a switch, run two+ lines from that to the devices.
You can do ethernet over coax with MOCA, those adapters are expensive but may be worth it if the coax is good and it lets you avoid some runs.
I think he means that there could be coax splitters in the walls. Knowing too little about how you build houses over the pond, I’m not going to comment. I’ve done it with my brother in our parents home, though. You have to make really, really sure you fasten the ethernet well to the old cable. Don’t ask me why i know that.
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D’oh forgot about those!
We make use of coax splitters but typically they are only in a few places - near where the line comes into the house (home runs like ethernet) or the basement ceiling which acts as distribution trunk so to speak. Lastly, outside the wall in-room.
That’s newer houses anyway - older builds I cannot comment on.
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That was what I meant, yes.
I’m guessing everything downstairs was run through a splitter (and maybe multiple), since it seems more and more some shortcuts were taken- I’m still trying to trace all the receptacles down there, and I have a pair of three-way switches to rewire and replace on my to-do list as well. This is also why a buddy and I are planning on replacing the existing main panel once all this stuff blows over, in a few months time. Have plenty of capacity and headroom, but I’m out of breaker slots.
That will be much nicer than a sub-panel!
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Putting PV on the roof and a battery storage system in eventually as well- I’d need the breaker space anyway for that exact reason, and subpanel wouldn’t play nice with that.
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Oh my god this made me laugh till I hurt, thank you very much for it, was a badly needed refrain from reality at this time
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