Question is a moca adaptor viable option?

[eathdemon1]

im on frontior fios (formorly vorizon fios) the internet goes from a fiberoptic termination box in the gorage to a modem/router in the house via a coax conection (router/modem router model NVG468MQ) is a moca (coax to ethernet) viable to add a acess spot in another part of the house, or no b/c its conecting to the wan part of the router? also the whole house is in the same coax loop.

 

[Ralston18]

You have ( ----> representing an Ethernet cable):

ISP (Frontier) === Fiber ===> [Garage FTB] === coax ===> [Modem/Router] ~~~~> wireless devices and -----> wired network devices

And the requirement is to add an Access Point.

ISP (Frontier) === Fiber ===> [Garage FTB] === coax ===> [Modem/Router] ~~~~> wireless devices and -----> wired network devices with one LAN port being -----> moca #1 ===> Coax ==== house coax cables ====> moca #2 ------> Access Point -----> wired/ ~~~ >wireless network devices.

Correct? If not, feel free to edit and correct my line diagram.

What are you planning to use for the Access Point: make, model? What other devices are to be added via the Access Point?

Who has full admin rights to the existing modem/router and other network devices?

One thing that must be avoided is the creation of a network loop: Device A connected to Device B connected to Device C connected to Device D connected to Device A again.

Actually any sort of loop in the overall network connections.

Edit my line diagram and add more details.

Depending on the details, there may be other options.

 

[bill001g]

You would have to look up the exact model but a lot of the FIOS boxes have MoCA capability. It is a bit strange in that the moca adapter is internal and shares the incoming WAN cable. The FIOS signals and the Moca run on different frequencies I think so they do not interfere. It has been many years since I had a FIOS connection. Internally the internal MoCA adapter is on the LAN side of the router and is then connected to the same cable that the FIOS comes in. If you did it yourself you would put a T connectors into the FIOS line and hook a external moca adapter to it.

What you should be able to do is hook a MoCA adapter in a remote room and it will connect to the fios router. Last I heard they do not support the very fast forms of moca that can do full 1gbit but the newest moca adapters can talk to the ones the fios system uses.

Now if all the coax jacks in your house are connected to the same cable as the FIOS coming into the house nobody but you can figure that out. Generally they are all connected but you would have to find the physical cables and look and see.