Wireless connection for Fios TV?

[g8rman95 0]

New house was a renovation and there are no jacks to connect TV.  Are there any good alternatives to hardwire connections.  Really don't want to tear up all of the walls to run new coax.  I suppose you could get a run to the attic then come down walls, but I"m not sure if you could get all the way on a common wall to the basement, which is where I need three of the drops. 

[orange dream 1251]

Not sure I understand the question exactly by why don't you just go with above average speed internet service and then use one of the streaming services? (PS Vue, DTV Now, Youtube Red, etc.)  No coax needed.

This link can help you figure out the best service for your needs...  https://www.suppose.tv/tv

If I have completely misunderstood your dilemma please ignore, after posting a pic of your wife.

Edited June 29, 2018 by orange dream

[elfenix 34241]

seems like verizon's service doesn't have any wireless box options (it's 2018, how is that possible?).  so @g8rman95, you'll either need to run drops or use a roku/appletv/firetv and use the channel apps.  

 

 

32 minutes ago, orange dream said:

Not sure I understand the question exactly by why don't you just go with above average speed internet service and then use one of the streaming services? (PS Vue, DTV Now, Youtube Red, etc.)  No coax needed.

This link can help you figure out the best service for your needs...  https://www.suppose.tv/tv

If I have completely misunderstood your dilemma please ignore, after posting a pic of your wife.

i'm guessing he's bundled and may even be on a plan where tv+internet is cheaper than just internet.  it's fios, so it's way above average speed internet - internet speeds aren't an issue.

 

[dcbc 14484]

9 hours ago, g8rman95 said:

New house was a renovation and there are no jacks to connect TV.  Are there any good alternatives to hardwire connections.  Really don't want to tear up all of the walls to run new coax.  I suppose you could get a run to the attic then come down walls, but I"m not sure if you could get all the way on a common wall to the basement, which is where I need three of the drops. 

I also recommend one of the streaming services, but assuming you're bundled, you either could use a wireless bridge or maybe one of those powerline to ethernet connectors.  We have one for an older copier and I tested it at 30 mb download speed.

More expensive, but great option is to get Google wifi.  Each connection point  on the mesh has a pair of ethernet ports to hardwire devices.

Edited June 30, 2018 by dcbc

[g8rman95 0]

Yeah, bundled is cheaper than straight internet, and agreed, how can Verizon not offer wireless boxes in 2018?!?!  Additional issue is several of the walls are block versus stud frame where the interior walls are a continuation of the exterior walls so wifi is not as strong as I'd like.  We have amazon fire boxes on two of the tv's, but I haven't had the time to try out the basement TV yet.  The main level one works fine, but it's in the room next to the office with the router.  Phone has ups and downs with the wireless in the basement, so I'm not sure how it's going to workout.

Will the Fios boxes work with ethernet cable only?  If I'm going to run coax, I'm going to run Cat6 as well so that I can at least hardwire the xboxes, but it would be nice to just run cat6.

Have to look into Google wifi.

 

thanks.

[g8rman95 0]

OK, so I have 50' of ethernet cable laying around from the old hardwire connection for the xbox. Tried running that from the router to the STB and it didn't work.  During the box boot sequence it got stuck at "cannot set clock" and there were no options to go beyond that.  Anyone know anything about getting the STB to work with ethernet only?