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Ethernet wiring homes is difficult and will annoy your family. But did you know you can stick an adapter box on Co-axial cable wires and use them as Ethernet?
A lot of houses were wired up for cable TV who would now wish they could use broadband hard wire at full speed.
@Tupp_ed can’t imagine the quality of most of those jobs is great. Coax used to be a pain in the ass even when it was designed for network use.
@Tupp_ed Wait have you actually managed to get that working? I invested in some devices but had no luck.
@Tupp_ed Wait, I could’ve been watching the Internet on my TV this whole time?
I’m starting to see where Dee Forbes was coming from now!
@Tupp_ed @kevinteljeur I’ve seen it said the player was designed to be disfunctional intentionally as she saw it as people watching Rte content for free / no licence fee paid. Wouldn’t be shocked
@daithimacthomais @Tupp_ed Ha, yes indeed, I was just being tongue-in-cheek about using the TV infrastructure to access the Internet (by the way, it bears repeating that Pi Hole does block ads in the RTÉ Player)
@Tupp_ed I actually used a proper, installed-that-way Ethernet-over-coax network in the late 90’s in the chemistry department at QUB. Complete with network cards that had coax connectors on them. None of your fancy Cat5 
(Built an extension and had house renovated last year. Got the builder to run some Cat6 for me while he was at it. Best decision ever)
@Tupp_ed just put on a BNC connector for 10b2. Works fine for 10 Mbit.
@Tupp_ed thankfully the coax that was installed in our house was run through tiny ducts when it was built, so it was possible to pull fibre cable through as all the coax terminated in the attic. I have single mode fibre running into the living room from the attic now, and am building up a whole house fibre network.. Just because I never want to crimp ethernet cables ever again 
the TV doesn't know what hit it.