  The paper presents an implementation and tests of a simple home entertainment
distribution architecture (server + multiple clients) implemented using two
conventional cabling architectures: CATV coaxial cable and conventional
Ethernet. This architecture is created taking into account the "Home gateway"
concept present in most attempts to solve the problem of the "Intelligent
home". A short presentation of the experimental is given with an investigation
of the main performances obtained using this architecture. The experiments
revealed that this simple solution makes possible to have entertainment and
data services with performances close to traditional data services in a
cost-effective architecture
