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Ethernet over Coax question

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phillyman36

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Hey does anyone have any experience with moca devices?
http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-MCAB1...5NMI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1329990097&sr=8-2

I have Comcast. I use to have direct tv. The wires that were in the rooms are still there. I know Moca wont work with Sat services like but i would use the wire not the set top box. Does anyone know if its the splitters that it not compatible with or just the set top boxes?
From what i understand my cable boxes are already on splitters so if i attach a Moca box the signal may degrade for the cable tv service.
 
I have 4 of them in a box (finished cat-5e install and don't need them anymore) and they do work very well. Just make sure that you have RG-6 and at least 1500Mhz splitters. I easily streamed Media Center to three XBox 360's with no buffering issues. Definitely could not do that with wireless or powerline, I tried!
 
The issue with satellite splitters is they can contain other devices like switches or power filtering because satellite also sends power over the cable. I would just take out any satellite splitter in the lines and replace either with a standard cable splitter or a coupler. Coupler would be best.
 
phillyman36 said:
Thanks. if i reroute the wires to the inside of the basement and use that splitter since i have 4 rooms it going to does something need to be plugged into that input switch?
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Input there means the input from you cable company for the TV signal.
 
ccbadd said:
Input there means the input from you cable company for the TV signal.
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Got that part but since i am detaching it from the sat that input wont be used. Just making sure that if the input isnt plugged in the splitter wont transmit any signals
 
phillyman36 said:
Got that part but since i am detaching it from the sat that input wont be used. Just making sure that if the input isnt plugged in the splitter wont transmit any signals
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It should work fine as I have attached two MOCA adapters to a single piece of coax and they worked fine for testing.
 
One more question. Will a MoCa network be able to handle all these?

3 Computers accessing the internet
4 Dune media players streaming blu ray movies

Is that something is can handle or is it too much to ask for? I was thinking about attaching a switch to each Moca adaptor and then 2 to 3 device per switch.
 
I usually got between 90Mbp and 95Mbp pretty consistantly. I would say you should be able to support 4 hd media streams along with your PC's internet access as long as your router can handle the traffic. This is just a generalization as your topology is unknown. Are you trying to stream from one computer to all four Dunes and is that PC in the same location as your router? This would put a bottleneck at that point.
 
All my movies are on a Nas server (was a synology ds1511 but now its a Synology ds1812). My equipment

Comcast cable modem
Dlink 655 router (4 gigabit land 1 gigabit wan)
1 Dlink giga switch

The nas stream the movies to the boxes via NFS
 
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