if you want to use your coax then invest in MoCA adapters you can get 2.5GbE out of it, just make sure its isolated where they meet up in the attic or closet and if needed invest in a blocker to prevent leakage into coax coming into the home from the outside.
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No thanks. Iâm fully aware of them and even more aware of how much they cost, not to mention the limitations and additional hardware.
Luckily I also had the foresight to pull 4xcat6 in the same conduit, so now my coax cables are my glorified pull wire (because it was the only thing I forgot to pull at the time 
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heh, least you have your main solution. Thatâs all that matters. Itâs there for those that canât just run new cables anyways.
edit: btw for those curios you are looking at like 45-50Gbps on fiber/DAC cable setup in a home environment when using a windows based machine with say a melonox card due to the way the networking is handled at the OS and hardware level. So if you have the budget and have need for it there is that as an option for a new home build heh and you want to really get rid of networking as a bottleneck for your home lab.
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I said that before looking at the 707 specs. 
What additional hardware? One MOCA adapter turns your coax network into a LAN backbone. Another MOCA adapter gives you Ethernet at the end point. They are a bit pricy. The ones I bought are $62 each and they work so well that I forgot I have them in my network.
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Youâre on the right track, as separating the WiFi AP function from the router function is the best way to go, both for features and upgradability.
Get at least WiFi 6 or better. While not all devices support its improvements, they are worth it for the ones that do, and eventually they all will. I also like the Omada APs, and prefer wired backhaul with PoE switch/injector so that the APs can take advantage of my central UPS. Get a big enough UPS to ride out common power outages.
WiFi-less routers are a little harder to find. Some are discussed above, and Mikrotik is another popular option, but I personally prefer open source so I use an off-the-shelf OpenWrt âsecurity gatewayâ from GL-iNet, but you can build your own. One GB of RAM is very adequate for the efficient OpenWrt; I have over 100 devices and only about 160MB is active, and that includes running two VPN servers and AdGuard Home on-board.
Managed switches are necessary if you ever want to configure VLAN tagging (which you almost certainly will to your APs). While the Omada-branded switches are cool because they can hook into their central management software, the TP-Link âeasy-managedâ switches work well enough and are more affordable.
Some also like using HA to âmanageâ or automate some network tasks, which may also drive your buying decisions. Both Unifi and Omada have great HA integrations with lots of sensors / controls. Personally I find the standards-based integrations (uPnP, SNMP, etc) to be adequate, as I donât see much value automating network actions (as a career network engineer, it just sounds like a lot of potential for trouble to me).
Basically, resist the Enterprise Smart Home Syndrome and keep things simple.
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Edited to add - also, if youâre thinking about using your router for presence/home/away detection, my advice is to consider alternatives like private BLE and iPhone detect which are far, far more reliable than trying to use WiFi connections.
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Also remember that there are a lot of IoT whose wire connection are only FE (Fast Ethernet = 100M) and also use only 2.4 GHz for WiFi. 5GHz and 6GHz drop distance and coverage very rapidly. So there is no need to for super high speed in either wired or wireless. Meshing means cutting band width in half to hook APs together wirelessly. Stay with wired if possible CAT5E is 1G at 300 ft runs and has been around since 1999. Cat6 is okay for future proofing. Do not fall for CAT7 it is not fully adopted or settled on yet. Fiber runs in home may come first. If wiring doors/windows/ appliances it would be advisable to mount boxes with conduit stubs to accessible areas so damage wire or updating can be done without to much trouble and tearing into walls.
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Also, do not fall for shielded Ethernet. Almost never needed even in the commercial realm. Never in the home network.
For the home, a flat network is sufficient. A gateway, dumb switch and a few APâs is all you need to get started. You can always join the pissing match later with a physical firewall or segmented Vlans. But for the vast majority of home installations, just stay flat.
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I disagree, for an IOT vlan ethernet port availability at the other end of the home for instance for a wired device, managed switches are needed. Especially if it is a new build, why not do it to grow for future use?
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Agree Iâd use a managed device and segment capabilities in a new build.
Especially if Iâm investing in a closet like op is. It gets a full mininrack and UI gear.
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