These let you do the same thing as powerline, but with the Coaxial cable TV ports in your walls instead.
If you really want to get fancy, pull out your old phone jacks and follow them through with CAT6 ( and new phone wire if you want to keep both). You don’t need to wire everything; buy some WiFi APs and keep the router in the basement, and run hardlines to your APs (an AP or Access Point is just the WiFi part of what you think of as the router, it doesn’t do any routing, it just goes from wired->wireless)
pull out your old phone jacks and follow them through with CAT6
If you’re lucky, you may not even need this step.
Buying 4-pair cable in Cat5e-or-better spec has been cheaper than 2-pair Cat3 “phone cable” for probably around 2 decades now, due to the vastly higher quantity of it being manufactured, so in plenty of newer houses the phone lines are wired with it.
You could still get unlucky and find the jacks are daisy-chained, but having a central wiring panel where they all connect to became popular in a similar timeframe.
Bit of a long shot, but in the best case scenario all you need to do is replace the jacks.
Look into MoCa adapters. (Media Over Cable)
These let you do the same thing as powerline, but with the Coaxial cable TV ports in your walls instead.
If you really want to get fancy, pull out your old phone jacks and follow them through with CAT6 ( and new phone wire if you want to keep both). You don’t need to wire everything; buy some WiFi APs and keep the router in the basement, and run hardlines to your APs (an AP or Access Point is just the WiFi part of what you think of as the router, it doesn’t do any routing, it just goes from wired->wireless)
If you’re lucky, you may not even need this step.
Buying 4-pair cable in Cat5e-or-better spec has been cheaper than 2-pair Cat3 “phone cable” for probably around 2 decades now, due to the vastly higher quantity of it being manufactured, so in plenty of newer houses the phone lines are wired with it.
You could still get unlucky and find the jacks are daisy-chained, but having a central wiring panel where they all connect to became popular in a similar timeframe.
Bit of a long shot, but in the best case scenario all you need to do is replace the jacks.