Help with MoCa network (Actiontec Adapter and Wireless Extender)

[saminmontreal]

Hi wondering if anyone can help me. I have setup a wireless extender using the actiontec adapter. The MoCa Coax light on the adapter goes green for a while but then starts to go on and off dropping the network and internet connection also. When it works its not bad, but it stops ever 20 minutes or so for around 5 minutes. It's strange. Before connecting the Actiontec extender, the Internet never ever cut out and was very reliable with consistent speed of 65mb/s down and 10mb/s up. Its just that the signal gets weak in the bedroom so figured I would try to extend it using MoCa

Setup and Stats below. The Set top boxes always work, its the internet that goes in and out. Not sure if something was done wrong. Also if you are wondering why the adapter has the coax in cable going to the STB and the TO TV going to the splitter, well it's because when I try the opposite the MoCa signal never turns solid green or get a connection, it's only when I inverted them did it work.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Setup

Actiontec Extender GUI

Network Monitor and Scan

 

[BuddhaSkoota]

Hi wondering if anyone can help me. I have setup a wireless extender using the actiontec adapter. The MoCa Coax light on the adapter goes green for a while but then starts to go on and off dropping the network and internet connection also. When it works its not bad, but it stops ever 20 minutes or so for around 5 minutes. It's strange. Before connecting the Actiontec extender, the Internet never ever cut out and was very reliable with consistent speed of 65mb/s down and 10mb/s up. Its just that the signal gets weak in the bedroom so figured I would try to extend it using MoCa.

You have two Apple devices (or one device with 2 interfaces) sharing a single IP address (10.0.1.17). That could be the root of the problem.

How is the Airport connected to network? Is it Ethernet cable to both the modem and the Actiontec?

 

[saminmontreal]

Hi Buddha

The airport is connected from the cable modem by wan and then airport has a few lan ports (one goes to the Actiontec adapter and the others to other devices) as well as wireless 2ghz and 5ghz. The Actiontec extender doesn't have a wan input and can't be the main device. It only has cable in and then 2 lan ports and 2ghz/5ghz. I had the Actiontec extender on a roaming network where the SID's and passwords match the airport but that was hell with this problem so I kept it separately named until I figure out what is wrong.

For the IP question, great catch. I looked into it and I'm a little confused. Because the IP that my computer sees for that MAC address is 10.0.1.1 (the Airport Extreme) but the MoCa network sees it as 10.0.1.17 - is that because it is also connected to the adapter? The adapter has absolutely no gui or settings, only the extender has options.

Thanks for your help!

 

[BuddhaSkoota]

For the IP question, great catch. I looked into it and I'm a little confused. Because the IP that my computer sees for that MAC address is 10.0.1.1 (the Airport Extreme) but the MoCa network sees it as 10.0.1.17 - is that because it is also connected to the adapter? The adapter has absolutely no gui or settings, only the extender has options.

Since the Airport Extreme is the gateway for your network, it should only have the 10.0.1.1 address. No two devices should share the same address, and the Airport Extreme should not have an additional address visible to any device other than the 10.0.1.1.

You may need to verify that there is no static IP addresses assigned that conflict with another.

Verify that you did not inadvertently clone a MAC to a different device.