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In case anyone is interested as it was new to me. I would drill a hole in the ceiling but was told by my partner no, so I couldn't run CAT5e. Because I'd just finished with Virgin and we had a TIVO box upstairs as well as downstairs they'd run their Coax cable into downstairs, outside, up the side of the drain pipe and into the bedroom.

Someone introduced me to MoCo connectors. So I now have one downstairs and one upstairs. CAT5e from the MoCo goes into the router downstairs, the MoCo then sends that over the Coax cable upstairs to the other MoCo, which is then plugged into a switch. That switch then serves the devices upstairs giving me the full fibre link without having to drill any holes.

The only security issue is someone could technically tap onto that Virgin cable outside if they wanted to but the CCTV camera would pick them up doing anything with that cable. There is barely a front garden so would spot them a mile away.

Do you mean MoCA adapters such as these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/moca-adapter/s?k=moca+adapter ?

I've not seen these before and look like a great 'get out of jail free' solution. Not super cheap, but probably cheaper that having cables installed by a 3rd party. They remind me of fibre media adapters.

Yep. These are the ones I got. Required two of them.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/goCoax-Etherne ... 152&sr=8-1

Only minor risk is, as the Virgin cable goes outside, someone could tap into the line, but the house is so small we'd noticed them doing it.

Good stuff. They certainly do look handy. Something to keep under my hat until the day I need them.

Cheers