WiFi Over Coax Beats Mesh Range Extenders for Cord Cutters

If you have been beating your head against the wall trying to figure out how to extend your Internet throughout your home without snaking Ethernet cables everywhere or spending money on an expensive WiFi Mesh system, then check this out.

If you are a cord cutter, chances are you already have a powerful hard-wired system in place that can be used in an entirely different way than what it was originally intended for.

A new startup company, Coaxifi, invented a better way to distribute your WiFi signal at 1/10 the cost of expensive and more complicated range extender systems.

Here's their recent press release

KANSAS CITY, MO, USA, July 17, 2018 VIA /EINPresswire.com/ -- Cord cutters now have a new use for their homes' coaxial cabling: Wi-Fi delivery. With patent-pending Wi-Fi over coax (WoCA™) technology, WiFork kits from Coaxifi® offer reliable whole-home Wi-Fi coverage for as little as 1/10th the cost of range extenders and mesh systems.

Since WoCA travels free of obstructions through walls, homeowners no longer need to put up with degraded Wi-Fi performance due to signal absorption by concrete and drywall.

As more households subscribe to 'over the top' virtual MVPD services to stream live video programming, the need for reliable Wi-Fi has never been greater.

Fortunately, bringing Wi-Fi to the back of a drywall TV niche or built-in TV cabinet is easy with WoCA. Coaxifi's WiFork sends a strong Wi-Fi signal directly to each room's cable outlet, with customized antennas that thread onto coaxial wall plates. This ensures low-latency, high-throughput connections between users' Wi-Fi routers and smart TV sets, streaming media devices, game consoles, and other connected devices.

As a distributed antenna system, WiFork delivers Wi-Fi to the user 'edge' in each room to maximize modulated PHY rates and packet delivery, rather than squandering transmitted power on empty spaces between the router and connected devices as with traditional Wi-Fi delivery.

The best part? Cord cutters can keep using their compatible Wi-Fi routers. While many meshed range extenders fail to support Fast Roaming, Coaxifi's WoCA kits natively allow users to seamlessly roam from floor to floor on a single SSID.

Unlike meshed systems that rely on unstable wireless links between floors, Coaxifi's WoCA kits eliminate hidden-node interference, multi-hop latency, and downtime caused by unpaired nodes.

Instead of paying hundreds of dollars for low-power meshed systems using the 802.11n/ac chipsets of yesteryear, WiFork lets users delay purchasing a new router until meaningful upgrades - like 9.6-Gbps-capable 802.11ax or WPA3 with Protected Management Frames - reach the market.

Since WiFork provides a future-proof Wi-Fi solution ready to work with both existing and new router models, users benefit from an assured upgrade path if and when they seek to purchase a new router.

WoCA kits also allow ISPs to keep consumer-premise equipment deployed in the field for longer, without the added expense of troubleshooting range extenders. Instead of crimping and wallfishing Ethernet cables, technicians can vastly reduce installation time by using existing coaxial cabling.

Each WiFork kit connects 4 cable outlets, with support for 16 or more rooms when used with multi-antenna routers. Larger deployments can be paired with multi-band amplifiers."

Is Coaxifi Hard To Install?

No, installing a Coaxifi range extender is almost as easy as screwing in a lightbulb.

All you need is a Router that has a screw in WiFi antenna. Routers with internal antennas don't work.

Step 1. Unscrew one of your WiFi antennas on your Router.

Step 2. Screw in the Coax cable coming into your home (this is the cable that your satellite or cable TV provider used to deliver their signal) to their adapter and screw this into your Router where the WiFi antenna was.

Step 3. At each cable outlet where you would like to extend your WiFi signal, screw in a Coaxifi multi-band Wi-Fi antenna.

How Coaxifi Beats a Mesh or Ethernet Network System

While a Mesh WiFi Network can still give you a stronger signal, they are also much more expensive and harder to install. One of the better Mesh Systems like the three-room Google Mesh setup replaces your current Router and costs around $250.

Then you still need to install all the devices and configure your network.

An Ethernet hard wired system which is still by far the best will also cost you more. Not just for the cost of the Gigabit wiring, also for the labor to have an electrical contractor snake it throughout your home, terminate the cables and certify and test the system.

This is also an expensive undertaking unless you're handy and can install a hard-wired network yourself.

Where Coaxifi shines, is it costs very little for their whole home system. Right around $30, and it can greatly improve your WiFi signal range in those locations blocked by cement, drywall or multiple walls. Installation only takes minutes instead of hours or days.

If you are using your coax line into your house attached to an antenna then this option won't really work for you. You will then either need to use an Ethernet hard wired network, Mesh WiFi network or get a pair of these Powerline range extenders that work by sending the signal from your Router over your AC electrical wiring. Anyone of these solutions will give you much better Internet connectivity throughout your home versus a typical WiFi Router alone.

Where Can You Buy the Coaxifi Range Extender Full Home System?

Buy the Coaxifi WiFi Range Extender System Here on Amazon

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