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Yes - that's been my experience with MoCA too. I needed to add an AP in one room and putting a new ethernet cable would have been a huge hassle. Luckily there w
by tomatocracy 6y ago
Yes - that's been my experience with MoCA too. I needed to add an AP in one room and putting a new ethernet cable would have been a huge hassle. Luckily there was an existing TV extension into the room and a pair of MoCA adaptors works perfectly over the run. It's significantly better than Powerline options.
The other option to be aware of is G.hn on 2-wire telephone extension cable (that wasn't relevant in my case) - the adaptors for this seem to be more expensive and harder to find though than MoCA.
- war1025 6y agoWhat hardware are you using? I looked briefly into this since I also have coax run throughout the house unused, but it was hard for me to know what to look for.
- variaga 6y agoI'm running a MoCA 1.4 network at home with a mixed set of ActionTec ECB2500C and Netgear MCA1001 Ethernet-Coax bridges. The interoperated w/ no problems. You can get newer versions that support MoCA 2.5, but I haven't tried them.
- toast0 6y ago> The other option to be aware of is G.hn on 2-wire telephone extension cable (that wasn't relevant in my case) - the adaptors for this seem to be more expensive and harder to find though than MoCA. If you've got (unneeded) telephone wire in your walls near where you want Ethernet, there's a good chance you have at least two pairs, which you can use for 100BaseTX, either point to point (ugh) if cable was run in bus formation as used to be common, or more usefully in more modern wiring where phone lines ran to a central location (hopefully somewhere that's appropriate to terminate ethernet near, but often at the telco DMARC on the outside of the home)
- tomatocracy 6y agoYes. You can often run Gigabit ethernet successfully over short runs of 4 pairs too, even if it's not Cat 5e.