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I've had excellent results from both powerline and MoCA in my 100 year old brick and plaster home. Powerline, I was careful to locate the origin node near the s
by sokoloff 3y ago
I've had excellent results from both powerline and MoCA in my 100 year old brick and plaster home. Powerline, I was careful to locate the origin node near the service entry and that worked well. (I'm not sure it was needed, but it seemed sensible to not try to locate the origin and the destination nodes both on branch circuits far from the panel.)
MoCA, I'm only using for the TiVos, though I've tapped into it for speed testing when I first installed it and it was "perfectly more than adequate" with no real tuning other installing the MoCA point of entry filter [singular, not plural] (in my case a PCT-VC-F18a) and hooking everything up.
I'm on US powerline, but in case it helps, I'm using the "devolo Magic 2 WiFi next starter kit" for powerline and, once again, that also "just worked".
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Maybe the best tip I can give is "make sure your coax is properly terminated AND properly tightened". This is no place for the old hex-crimped crappy ends and no place for finger-tightened F-connectors. Put high-quality compression connectors on the coax and snug all connections with a wrench.
Second tip: If you have unused ports on a splitter, cap them off with terminating resistors (or better, replace the splitter with a 2+ GHz splitter with the correct number of ports).
Third tip: Throw out any old 850 MHz, 1 GHz, etc. splitters if you're trying to run MoCA.
- cdchn 3y agoIs it too early to be feeling nostalgia reading the word "TiVo?"
- hypercube33 3y agoI am genuinely curious if they are using actual Tivos. I gave up on my Cable card hdhomerun box due to the pain it caused and just went with their dual over the air digital tuner and Plex. Do old devices even work with anything these days?
- sokoloff 3y agoI am using actual TiVos. Roamio with a multi-stream cable card and some satellite TiVo minis. I have no cable company owned equipment in my house (other than the cable card) for TV, phone, and internet that I get from cable. Now, I’m considering dumping cable TV service, because the price over value has gotten kind of stupid, but for now, I still have TiVos in service and they have a good story for digital cable as well.
- sp332 3y agoMy cable company used these Tivo-branded Arris devices as STBs for years. https://zatznotfunny.com/2017-02/tivo-heads-back-future-new-hardware-partners/ https://zatznotfunny.com/2017-02/tivo-heads-back-future-new-... They are now upgrading to a tiny Android TV device that streams TV over IP. It draws 10W max and has a better Youtube and Plex app than the old one. It still has the Tivo interface for TV shows, but now I can rewind live TV and start shows up to 3 days after they air.