MoCa coax network?

Does anyone have experience using MoCa network adapters?

Cable company internet is my only option.

The wife and I both work from home and require lots of bandwidth - she does video conferencing all day, I do large data transfers. Our offices are at opposite ends of the house and on different floors. I’d rather not rely on WiFi, so I thought I try to leverage the existing cable TV coax lines.

I already have a Mesh system (Orbi) that works well, I’d just rather have wired connections if possible.

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Don’t see how you can go wrong with BB’s generous return policy.

You might also want to look at running it through the power lines, it’s crap technology for outside the house, but inside I run 300mbps over them.

JimB said:

You might also want to look at running it through the power lines, it’s crap technology for outside the house, but inside I run 300mbps over them.

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Huh. I dismissed that option without really looking into it. I figured the coax infrastructure was already there, unused, so there wouldn't be any interference. I'll check it out.

Was just reading the reviews and these are supposed to deliver closer to 1gbps and allow multiple end points (ie you can run 3 or more up to 16) vs my powerline is strictly one to one.

Sorry for the distraction, I’d try these before powerline.

I’ll be interested in seeing how this turns out. Coax is used in the telephony world, but the most common application is only 45MB (DS3/T3).

They should work fine. My company used to use the moca 1.0 to feed iptv set top boxes, and rarely had any issues. The ones you are looking at have a much higher throughput, and should work great.

The power line Ethernet works flawlessly and pretty cheap. Skip MoCa

@Tim

Ever decide on a plan?

I have the MoCA adapter here, but haven't installed yet. So far, the Orbi mesh system is doing just fine without it.