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Sure. But I would bet that most Wi-Fi access points use a 50-ohm system. (Plus, the connectors on a home tv coax cable probably won't mate with the router connectors.)

If you want to use a 75-ohm cable, you'll have to use impedance converters to convert to 50 ohms.

Bottom line: just make sure the components you're connecting in your system are properly matched to avoid a lot of reflections and power loss.



Impedance matching is overrated, the return loss of 50-ohm into 75-ohm is 14 dB, or a VSWR of 1.5:1, it means a low reflection, in practice the return loss is even better due to the loss in the cable. Also, unlike some digital systems that are expected to operate in a controlled environment, Wi-Fi is designed to work with multipath interference, so running Wi-Fi over 75-ohm coax can already get better SNR than running it over-the-air, so matching is not always necessary. You can always add one at the last step if it turned out to be necessary.


This confused me but I think you mean "Most WiFi Access Points use a..."?


Thanks! Corrected


Doesn't everyone have a stash of old 10base2 cables? The idea of running a network over them is strangely appealing.


> If you want to use a 75-ohm cable, you'll have to use impedance converters to convert to 50 ohms.

... says the article, clearly.




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