[SOLVED] Coax preventing Moca from working.

[swishes]

Hi,

I received two Actiontec Moca adapters a few days ago, set one up to the modem via splitter and the other one to a computer in another room to get a wired connection there.

I havent been able to get the Coax light to light up. Tried a few different splitter configurations at the modem to see if its that. No luck. My assumption at this point is the coax cable going to the computer is non functioning for whatever reason.

So i start to look outside for a centralized hub for the coax cables. I find this:

https://imgur.com/a/c9w0pbD

A bunch of cut cables and a few splitter coming out of a little vent.

Assuming one of the cut coax is the one leading to the room im trying to get internet to.

Looking for advice to my next move here.

Thanks

 

[SamirD]

Well, the one good think is you have a coupler out there. I would re-terminate the cables by getting a tool and some ends from your local hardware place. Coax is much, much easier to terminate than ethernet, so it should be pretty easy.

The next step will be to see where those cables go. If both came from the house and both were originally connected together like that, I would just connect them together again like that and see what happens.

If this doesn't work, then I would leave one moca adapter connected inside the house and bring the other one outside and see if you get a link by connecting to either of those cables. If you do then you know something about where the cables are going. The idea is that you're going to have to figure out what wires go where and then get your moca connected on each end of that setup. Unless you're planning to add more moca adapters, I wouldn't worry about splitters and just use a barrel connector to join the two pieces of coax into essentially one long cable. It's actually what I did for my own moca setup, bypassing the entire splitter.

 

[swishes]

Alright thanks.

Going to terminate these cables and connect them. Then ill report back.