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 used my homes internal coax network to get Ethernet a room that was not near my router. I have one MOCO device in my network closet and one MOCO device in my remote room. I hooked everything up in a matter of minutes and was surfing the web just as fast. No noticeable lag or slower speeds. I am still getting my advertised ISP internet speeds.

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!

These MoCA boxes perform great! I get 1 gbps with <5ms ping using speedtest.net through this and two routers! If highly recommend this if you dont have an Ethernet run across your house and can use the preexisting coax!

These MOCA adapters worked great to get my high speed ATT (fiber) internet to an upstairs room through my home’s existing coax. I have an OTA TV antenna in the attic and was using my coax network to access the antenna in several rooms. The MOCA adapters do not interfere with the OTA frequencies.

Updating house to reduce WiFi traffic

These things are plug and play. I highly recommend trying this route before paying someone to retrofit ethernet drops all over your house.

I work in IT. My FIOS ONT is in the basement in the laundry room and I only have them for Internet. The ONT allows an Ethernet cable to be ran from you ONT to your router. I have my router on the 2nd floor in my office for optimal placement. Running an Ethernet wire would have been a pain and costly to have done professionally. I tried using Powerline adapters but there was a solid amount of bandwidth loss, probably more due to poorer electrical wiring in the house. The MOCA adapters allowed me to use the existing coaxial in the house and worked great! Easy to plug in and really no configuration needed. If your not a tech person like me they would be an easy way to bring signal from device (modem or ONT) in say a basement to your router in your house. ***I would like to note I tried to get FIOS gigabit speed and use these. I was not able to get full bandwidth using these, although Im not sure if that is due to the electrical wiring in my house or the units themselves. I do know that if your electrical wiring isnt great that will result in loss of bandwidth. I decided to go with the 300/300 speed tier and get full bandwidth to my router. And honestly it saves me some money on the monthly fee and the 300/300 is fine for my usage. I would say the extra cost of the units is offset by the ease of use of installation and flexibility of placement.

Took considerable work to get this up and running. Not Moca adapter problem, whole house DVR problem. Spent over an hour with Motorola technical support after having cable company out twice. Problem was two whole house DVR connectors (cable guy said they were POEs) on same cable leading to router. Moved one and presto, Moca!. Getting 117 down and 12 up at desktop connected to router upstairs and same at cable drop Moca adapter behind TV in living room. Motorola tech support was fabulous. No more buffering when streaming and didnt have to run internet cable all over house. Yes, it really works. Spectrum Cable Set up: 1. POE at point of entry. 2. 2gb 4 way splitter after POE. 3. 2 Holland 1675Mhz 2 way splitters, 1 at router, 1 at TV cable drop. I will say my TV gets cable signal from HDMI from AVR in basement and cable box (also in basement) for tv receives signal directly from 4 way initial splitter.

Super easy to setup, I used my old DirecTV lines to bridge my cable modem upstairs and my entertainment center downstairs. They get amazing speeds and I have my Ubiquiti access points plugged in for better downstairs coverage. Highly recommend these.

My mind was blown when I realized MoCA is really just a fancy way of running ethernet over coaxial cable without impacting Cable Internet or TV service on the same line. My cable router sits down stairs above my fireplace and my office is in an awkward spot above the garage on the opposite side of the house. Ive essentially been running two separate networks and have been connecting my office network to the downstairs network using a TP-link wireless repeater acting as a Bridge due to the WIFI signal from downstairs being bad and running ethernet cable is impossible because the office ceiling is right up against the shingles (no roof crawl space). The quality has always been meh. There is an existing coax connector in the office (and bedroom) which I assumed was strictly for TV. After researching MoCA I realized that I already have a hard line down to the Cable router in the form of the Coaxial cable already in the walls. Using these devices Ive converted ethernet to coax and back to ethernet again and now have a hardline to the rest of the network. Ive done speedtests and iperfs and can confirm I get full gigabit across these two device. ***One thing to note is that you cant change the default IP addresses of the MoCA adapters from 192.168.0.2 to anything else. This caused a bit of an issue for me because my pihole used to be on that address so I would get MAC address flaps between pihole and the MoCA adapter. Simple solution was to change piholes address. Ive attached a network diagram for clarity on my use case, hopefully it can help someone else have an ah ha moment