Motorola MoCA Adapter for Ethernet Over Coax, Plug and Play, Ultra Fast Speeds, Boost Home Network for Better Streaming and Gaming (1 Gbps – MoCA 2 Pack)

I was wiring my whole house with gigabit ethernet, but there was no easy way to run the ethernet cable to the pool house. The builder had run a coax cable out there. With these MOCA adapters, I simply attached one unit to the coax in the pool house, and put the other unit in the main house attic where the coax line came in. I ran an ethernet drop to the unit in the attic, and voila, gigabit ethernet to the pool house. They do take AC power so I had to put the attic unit near the furnace where there was an AC outlet.

Worked like charm. My tv wifi signal was decent, typically hovering around 30 mb/s...but would randomly drop down to 3 mb/s causing buffering or just simply disconnect making viewing tv every night frustrating. I got 2 of these adapters and hooked 1 up at my router and the other behind my tv at the coax connection and presto.....not a single issue since. My connection speed hovers around 45 mb/s and not a single buffer issue or dropped connection since. I kissed both adapters that first night.....no tongue....that would be weird.

Despite being newly built, our house has no ethernet cabling, only coaxial throughout the house. We have a single modem/router, and its wifi signal to our bedroom was too weak to be stable enough for online gaming. In addition to these adapters, I got a new coaxial splitter to add a connection from our bedrooms coax to the main source in the garage. Make sure to use the lowest # of splits as possible so that your signal strength isnt divided too much. We went from a 2-way to a 3-way splitter with -5.5db loss, which was not noticeable at all on our Gigabit plan. The adapters themselves are plug-and-play, no software setup needed once youve connected the cables properly following the instructions. We now have super fast wired internet in our room without ethernet, and our WiFi isnt bogged down by our streaming and gaming!

I installed Netgear Orbi RBK-50 in my home and detached garage. I wanted a wired backhaul between the 2 units but only had coax between the buildings. The Motorola MoCA adapters work perfectly. I’m getting the 400Mbps I’m paying for anywhere on my acre. No reason to doubt the adapters could handle Gigabit Ethernet, though I haven’t tried it.

It is easy to install and works pretty well but only working at 1/2 the speed the source speed. I have 500 mpbs internet speed at the modem/router but only around 250 mbps at the MoCA device. Cannot comment on the durability since I only had it for a week.

I gave up waiting for the Actiontec ECB6250 to enter retail and got two of these last week along with a Holland Electronics 4-Way MoCA splitter. I dont have TV service so I put a termination cap on the In port of the MoCA splitter, connected my four rooms to the Out ports and put termination caps on the COAX outputs in the rooms where I wasnt testing. Running iperf3 (3.6) through three runs to/from my office room Workstation and each COAX outlet throughout the house saw average throughput speeds of 947 Mbps down and 853 Mbps up. By comparison my Wireless AC Router (ASUS RT-AC68U) + N Routers (ASUS RT-N66Us) acting as APs (with my PCs and Laptop connected to such via their Gigabit LAN adapters) in each room can sustain anywhere from 250 to 330 Mbps BUT require me to have to frequently change the 5GHz channel due to inept neighbors/renters and/or their inept Routers. Ill be buying two more soon!

In summary: Im happy with the pair. The speeds I get are adequate. I dont get gigabit speeds, but theyre quite high. My network is probably the limiting factor, not the adapters. They allowed me to turn a DD-WRT oriented wireless bridge using an Asus RT-AC66U-B1 into a wired access point. I wanted to get better wireless in that area of the house. Details: The DD-WRT / Asus RT-AC66U-B1 wireless bridge worked well but I wanted a stronger wireless signal in that area by turning the Asus wireless bridge into a wired access point. Later, I decided to replace DD-WRT with stock Asus firmware so that I could turn the RT-AC66U-B1 into an AiMesh node. An AiMesh capable Asus RT-AC68U is the main access point in the house. The main router is pfSense. The MOTOROLA MoCA Adapters extended the wired connection into that area of my home. AiMesh performed erratically. All Asus firmware was up to date. A tivo mini kept losing the wired signal from the AiMesh node. At first I wondered if the MOTOROLA MoCA Adapters were the problem, but swapping out the AiMesh node RT-AC66U-B1 with a spare Netgear R7000 using stock firmware as a wired access point returned stability to the tivo mini. I had similar problems a long time ago with Asus firmware in wireless bridge mode, causing me to install DD-WRT on the RT-AC66U-B1. It appears to work OK as a wired access point, though.

I recently bought a three-bedroom, three-level townhouse and got fiberoptic internet with 1gb speeds. Sadly I tried several wifi routers and none would give me reliable fast (ie 25+mbps) speeds to the far corner of my townhouse, which also happens to be my office. WiFi repeaters didnt work with things like my Sonos system. Thankfully these little gadgets saved me by using my existing coaxial cables in my home (which i do not use). I hooked one of these up next to my router, and the other next to my desktop computer, plugged it in with ethernet cord and getting 800+ mbps. There were cheaper ones available on Amazon, but when dealing with my computer, personal and work information, even while using a VPN and firewall, I wanted a brand name product.

Very easy to install. Ran into a small problem when I could not get the link light to come on. Pretty silly mistake but both units must be installed for the link light to actually light. In hind sight, i guess that is logical but nowhere in the instructions does it state that. Scratched my head for about 30 minutes until the little light went on in my brain. Works Great!!!

I was shipped the wrong model and I had no problem returning them. It took me a while to figure out they were the wrong model and I could not get the desired performance.