Question COAX / MoCA ?

[Ekki2]

Hi !

I'm sorry for my lack of English.

I recently moved into a house without RJ45 socket, but I do have a lot of COAX and I wonder if I can use them to bring internet to my room. My internet provider "passes" internet via coax, so the plan would look like this (red is COAX sockets) :

-> Bottom floor will have the router

My question is : Can I just buy a MoCA and just plug it in ? And other question too, only the bottom COAX is working at the moment, can I just use a "female" coax to plug in the two male pins ?

Thank you very much for your answers,

Ekki2.

 

[kanewolf]

Hi !

I'm sorry for my lack of English.

I recently moved into a house without RJ45 socket, but I do have a lot of COAX and I wonder if I can use them to bring internet to my room. My internet provider "passes" internet via coax, so the plan would look like this (red is COAX sockets) :

-> Bottom floor will have the router

My question is : Can I just buy a MoCA and just plug it in ? And other question too, only the bottom COAX is working at the moment, can I just use a "female" coax to plug in the two male pins ?

Thank you very much for your answers,

Ekki2.

MoCA requires the cable, but also compatible splitters. You need to research how all the coax cables are tied together.

 

[Ralston18]

@Ekki2

And I will add the suggestion to google "coax splitter images" to learn what the splitters look like.

If any splitters are found then add them and their location(s) to your diagram. Note the number of connections on each splitter.

Also show connecting cable runs.

 

[kanewolf]

MoCA splitters have to be bi-directional and should be 2Ghz rated. https://ussupport.hitrontech.com/po...e#splitter-compatibility-with-moca-technology
Here is a best practices guide from the MoCA association -- https://mocalliance.org/technology/Final_Best-Practices-for-Installation-of-MoCA_170516rev01.pdf

 

[gggplaya]

1. You need to buy a POE(point of entry) filter to prevent your MOCA network from leaking out to the neighborhood(very insecure). All you need to do is screw the MOCA POE filter to the input of the very first splitter where it enters you house. Cheap and easy.
2. As said by kane, all splitters should be rated for 5-2000mhz or similar. Older splitters will only be 5-1000 mhz which will block MOCA. Moca typically resides into the 1100-1700mhz range, your cable tv and internet reside in the 50-1000mhz range. That's how they're able to exist on the same cable.
3. Keep in mind that some newer cable tv boxes use MOCA for whole home viewing and DVR. If you have some several cable tv boxes in your house, you may want to check their model numbers to see if they use MOCA. Moca will default to the lowest speed device on the network. So if those boxes are 100mbps, you'll only get 100mbps on the network.

If you have coax in your house, then MOCA is the BEST solution to move data around the house. You'll get full gigabit speeds without an issue.