MoCA Best Choice for Me?

[hrick11]

Ok so Im trying to get ethernet inside of this office room in my basement. I have a USB Wifi Adapter, but I'd much rather use ethernet.

I have a Coax Port and a phone line in that room, but no ethernet, and both ports of the coax and phone line have their own separate panels.

I've researched MoCA 2.0
http://www.actiontec.com/338.html
where you plug that into the Coax port (Im assuming) and it creates another spot for ethernet/wifi. Not too confident in that ^ but Im trying to see if that's my best option, or if a Powerline is my best option.

I need links to things of what you guys have and your review of it and what you think I should do? I have a long ethernet cable that will make it their, but that is ugly.

If no ethernet, please send me a good Wifi adapter because the one I have seems to be terrible.

Thanks!

 

[bill001g]

That ugly cable will get you a guaranteed 1g up and 1g down as long as your router has gig ports.

Moca is much more expensive than powerline. The very newest powerline units should be faster than moca but there really is no way to say for sure because both are dependent on wire quality and paths in your house.

Try taking the phone jack apart if it is point to point back to a central location it is likely cat5 cable and may have 4 pair also. You could just re terminate the wire and have ethernet.

 

[abailey]

MOCA could be a good choice for you. Under almost any condition, MOCA is better than powerline. The very best powerline adapters out now test out at about 270Mb/s in normal conditions where the new MOCA 2.0 bonded adapters test out at over 900Mb/s throughput under normal conditions. Another problem with powerline is it may work okay for you until you plug something in (like a cell pone charger for instance) that puts noise on the line and all of a sudden your powerline adapter does not work so well any more. I use MOCA extensivly in my house and have been very happy with it.
If your not going to run an ethernet cable, my suggestion wold be to give MOCA a try. If you need really fast speeds then I would get this adapter set: https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Bonded-Ethernet-Adapter-ECB6200K02/dp/B013J7O3X0
If you are okay with speeds around 100Mb/s then you can use an adapter that is much less expensive (but it does not work if you run cable TV on the same coax). See here: https://www.amazon.com/DIRECTV-Broadband-DECA-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B00ZDUQVFU/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1466569000&sr=1-2&keywords=deca

 

[hrick11]

MOCA could be a good choice for you. Under almost any condition, MOCA is better than powerline. The very best powerline adapters out now test out at about 270Mb/s in normal conditions where the new MOCA 2.0 bonded adapters test out at over 900Mb/s throughput under normal conditions. Another problem with powerline is it may work okay for you until you plug something in (like a cell pone charger for instance) that puts noise on the line and all of a sudden your powerline adapter does not work so well any more. I use MOCA extensivly in my house and have been very happy with it.
If your not going to run an ethernet cable, my suggestion wold be to give MOCA a try. If you need really fast speeds then I would get this adapter set: https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Bonded-Ethernet-Adapter-ECB6200K02/dp/B013J7O3X0
If you are okay with speeds around 100Mb/s then you can use an adapter that is much less expensive (but it does not work if you run cable TV on the same coax). See here: https://www.amazon.com/DIRECTV-Broadband-DECA-Ethernet-Adapter/dp/B00ZDUQVFU/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1466569000&sr=1-2&keywords=deca

So I just take a Coax cable and plug one end into the wall and the other into that MoCA? Also, I thought MoCA worked as a remote device where there had to be another one beside the router that hooked into the router so the other one in the house could receive a signal? Or am I trying to combine MoCA and Powerline together lol

 

[bill001g]

They do work in pairs you must have one by your router unless you have the rare cable modem/router that supports moca in its hardware.