Hyacin (He/Him)

This looks WILDLY similar to my old setup! If you’ve got really old RG59 in there, it’s going to suck - horrible jitter, and sub-1gig for sure, and obviously the longer the run the worse it gets.

If you throw 2.5 Gbps adapters on to a nice clean piece of new RG6 though, especially point to point (but then you’d lose this boost), it is not terrible.

In the end it was just a stopgap, I think I used it for about 5 years and then the first time I was having work done and had some parts of the walls open I got my guy to run fibre everywhere he could, and cat8 everywhere else. I do still use one of the RG59 links, just joined at that panel, to do a point to point from an upstairs bedroom, down through the basement and back up to the living room, just carrying super low volume corosync traffic for one of my lab clusters - but all the rest is migrated off now and is a way less frustrating connection now.

I may reuse one of the good RG6 through cinderblock pieces to do RS485 between my ERV and my Home Assistant Yellow at some point in the future, but for the most part the coax is now abandoned (and we flipped the house to fibre internet years ago too.)

I’m not sure you’re clear on what “slop” is, or what we’re asking? All the things you posted in your reply are real photos, the original picture in this post looks like ‘AI’-generated slop.

Is the video slop? Because this sure looks like slop.

For the remote console and power controls alone with so little overhead, this is the correct answer. When you add everything else you can do with it, it’s no longer even a question.