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on February 1, 2015
I am an IT student, and can say that I am very impressed at these adapters. Sure, the interface to configure them (if you choose, the config is optional) is not that pretty, but there was no problem using it. Another point to make is to be aware if you have a powered amplifier/splitter combo in your coax somewhere. The signal used by these adapters (over 1Ghz) will not pass through these kind of amps. Since I have one in my house, I had to bypass the amp using diplexers. This allowed me to leave the cable tv lines amplified, while separating the ethernet over coax lines off of the amplifier. I've included a diagram of my setup in case others may be in this situation. Hopefully it can help some of you before you leave a bad review on this product.
on August 1, 2016
Worked great for my application. I have cable/internet installed through an 8-way amplified splitter in the basement. In our second floor office we have the cable modem and VOIP installed (Charter). Attached to the modem I have a wifi router with 4 Ethernet ports. Down the upstairs hall I have a PC which never received good wifi ... Best I could do with speed test over wifi was 3-4 Mbps. So I tried wifi extenders which didn't improve much, researched power line networking (mixed reviews) and finally decided to try these MOCA adapters.
Round one: received and unpacked the twin pack, read doc, etc. I set up the included splitter in the office with the cable modem ... One line to the modem, the other to the MOCA adapter. Attached Ethernet cable to my wifi router and MOCA. Then over to the second office with PC where I hooked up coax to the wall outlet and MOCA unit, Ethernet from MOCA to PC, powered up ... Nothing! There are 3 lites on the adapter ... Power, Ethernet and coax. The coax lite never lit up, no network established. So I called tech support. They had me hook up the two units in same room using short length of coax ... No coax lites ... So diagnosis was one unit was bad. Shipped them back for replacement.
Round two. This time I am smarter ;-). I hooked up the two new units and tested before doing anything else. -Tip- it took several minutes for the units to establish a connection (so give it some time ... Could take 5-10 min, they should tell you this). But it did work! Next step, I hooked up directly to the coax/wall (no splitter) went to second room and set up the other unit to test just the coax connection. Never got it working (theory below). So ... Just for kicks, I tried hooking unit one to coax outlet in another room ... It worked! I ran a very long Ethernet cable between the two units and got a connection. Tested on ATT Speed test at 64Mbs! Fortunately the room where it's hooked up is adjacent to the office with my network equipment so this will be fine.
My theory ... There is something about the "port one" connection that doesn't support putting the coax signal on this line. I haven't found anything online to support this, but it worked quickly and easily in the adjacent room, where nothing worked on the modem/VOIP line.
I'd recommend testing per above when first installing. The units connected to each other, and nothing else, should hand shake and connect within a few minutes, if not then they won't work at all. Once working, set up just the coax connection between the two locations. Once working attach Ethernet at the source, then other end, and test the complete connection.
Again, it works great once it's set up right, but there's something funky about that primary connection which is where you'd normally want to attach both the Ethernet and coax together to broadcast to the rest of the house.
Round one: received and unpacked the twin pack, read doc, etc. I set up the included splitter in the office with the cable modem ... One line to the modem, the other to the MOCA adapter. Attached Ethernet cable to my wifi router and MOCA. Then over to the second office with PC where I hooked up coax to the wall outlet and MOCA unit, Ethernet from MOCA to PC, powered up ... Nothing! There are 3 lites on the adapter ... Power, Ethernet and coax. The coax lite never lit up, no network established. So I called tech support. They had me hook up the two units in same room using short length of coax ... No coax lites ... So diagnosis was one unit was bad. Shipped them back for replacement.
Round two. This time I am smarter ;-). I hooked up the two new units and tested before doing anything else. -Tip- it took several minutes for the units to establish a connection (so give it some time ... Could take 5-10 min, they should tell you this). But it did work! Next step, I hooked up directly to the coax/wall (no splitter) went to second room and set up the other unit to test just the coax connection. Never got it working (theory below). So ... Just for kicks, I tried hooking unit one to coax outlet in another room ... It worked! I ran a very long Ethernet cable between the two units and got a connection. Tested on ATT Speed test at 64Mbs! Fortunately the room where it's hooked up is adjacent to the office with my network equipment so this will be fine.
My theory ... There is something about the "port one" connection that doesn't support putting the coax signal on this line. I haven't found anything online to support this, but it worked quickly and easily in the adjacent room, where nothing worked on the modem/VOIP line.
I'd recommend testing per above when first installing. The units connected to each other, and nothing else, should hand shake and connect within a few minutes, if not then they won't work at all. Once working, set up just the coax connection between the two locations. Once working attach Ethernet at the source, then other end, and test the complete connection.
Again, it works great once it's set up right, but there's something funky about that primary connection which is where you'd normally want to attach both the Ethernet and coax together to broadcast to the rest of the house.
on January 22, 2015
The wireless signal to our Xbox One was horrible. I was going to hire someone to fish ethernet, but heard about this solution listening to Leo Laporte's The Tech Guy podcast. In less than 15 minutes, I had a hardline connection to the console. The kit comes with 2 units, 2 coax cables, 2 ethernet cables, and a coax splitter. I'm running TWC internet. Took coax from wall that was going into cable modem/router and plugged it into first unit. Plugged the provided coax from unit 1 into the cable modem. Plugged an ethernet cable into unit and then into a port on the cable modem/router. Then connected power. In the other room, on the other side of the house, plugged the coax going to our cable box into unit 2. Plugged the provided coax from unit 2 into the cable box. Plugged an ethernet cable into unit 2 and the other end into the xbox one. Then connected power to unit 2. Turned on the xbox and performed a speed test - 56Mbps compared to the 8Mbps I was getting with wireless.
on June 29, 2016
This is a great solution for home networking when a house isn't wired for Ethernet (should be standard these days in new construction but it isn't...). You plug one in near your cable modem and then plug the other in at any other coax point in your house. It gives you a wired connection over the coax and is much more stable than wireless. From what I've read it beats poweline adapters by a long shot. I docked a star because I can't get even near the advertised speeds even after troubleshooting with customer service. Get a max of 30Mbps and we subscribe to 100. But 30 is more than enough for streaming and gaming so I'm VERY happy with these units.
on June 22, 2014
I have bad signal from my FIOS router which is at one end of the house at the other end, the router drops in and out in my office all the time. I tried POE adapters which kind of worked but even when they did the speed was really bad. I was not confident if this solution would work for me as the fiber actually comes into the apartment in my office then goes through the main fios box into the wall in what was an original TV coax outlet.
Basically they added Fios to my apartment after it was built, it comes off the pole on the street at one end but that is the other end from my TV so the Fios guys used the internal coax to send the signal to the other end of the house.
This is why I was skeptical if this solution would work as when I read through the instructions it seems like you had to have the single adapter on the outbound part of the coax downstream from the Fios router. In my case I wanted to put it right at the Fios box which was the inbound side.
Anyway, I got the adapter and a splitter (you need to purchase separately) then unscrewed the coax coming out of my Fios box, put that into the splitter then put one coax back into the wall (original connection) and the other into the adapter. Note that you have to get a couple of coax wire to use the splitter these are not included with the adapter.
I plugged it all in and prayed....I connected up my laptop, seemed to get a ethernet signal, access to google and when I ran speedtest I had a full 60Mbps download !
Boom! now I have full speed wired internet in my office, I just ordered a gigabit switch for all my devices but I could not be happier. this is 100 times better than messing around with POE. 5stars!!
Basically they added Fios to my apartment after it was built, it comes off the pole on the street at one end but that is the other end from my TV so the Fios guys used the internal coax to send the signal to the other end of the house.
This is why I was skeptical if this solution would work as when I read through the instructions it seems like you had to have the single adapter on the outbound part of the coax downstream from the Fios router. In my case I wanted to put it right at the Fios box which was the inbound side.
Anyway, I got the adapter and a splitter (you need to purchase separately) then unscrewed the coax coming out of my Fios box, put that into the splitter then put one coax back into the wall (original connection) and the other into the adapter. Note that you have to get a couple of coax wire to use the splitter these are not included with the adapter.
I plugged it all in and prayed....I connected up my laptop, seemed to get a ethernet signal, access to google and when I ran speedtest I had a full 60Mbps download !
Boom! now I have full speed wired internet in my office, I just ordered a gigabit switch for all my devices but I could not be happier. this is 100 times better than messing around with POE. 5stars!!
on July 13, 2013
Please don't disregard the description of these adapters. They're for cable users only; they'll either not work or have unexpected and unpredictable effects if used with satellite service.
Also, you need to have two of these adapters to start your MoCA network. Think of them as Ethernet to coax bridges; you need one for the devices (TV, PS3, TiVo, etc.) you want to have Internet access, and one at your Internet access point to go back from coax to Ethernet.
Assuming you take both of the above into account, these adapters are excellent. Setup couldn't be simpler -- you literally plug them into your coax, plug them into the Ethernet port of the device you want to bring onto the network, then plug them into the wall. After both adapters are hooked up, it takes a minute or two for them to sync up, and then you're good to go. You don't actually need to buy more of these to add additional devices in the same area, since they work with Ethernet switches. Pick up a cheap 100Mbit or 1Gbit Ethernet switch and you can use it to put all the devices in your entertainment center on your MoCA network. You plug the switch's uplink port into the MoCA bridge, then plug your devices into the switch.
The adapters claim a high transfer rate, but note that they only have a 100Mbit Ethernet port, so a device is never going to exceed about 80Mbit. If you need even more performance than that (seriously, what are you doing?), these adapters won't work for you.
Also, you need to have two of these adapters to start your MoCA network. Think of them as Ethernet to coax bridges; you need one for the devices (TV, PS3, TiVo, etc.) you want to have Internet access, and one at your Internet access point to go back from coax to Ethernet.
Assuming you take both of the above into account, these adapters are excellent. Setup couldn't be simpler -- you literally plug them into your coax, plug them into the Ethernet port of the device you want to bring onto the network, then plug them into the wall. After both adapters are hooked up, it takes a minute or two for them to sync up, and then you're good to go. You don't actually need to buy more of these to add additional devices in the same area, since they work with Ethernet switches. Pick up a cheap 100Mbit or 1Gbit Ethernet switch and you can use it to put all the devices in your entertainment center on your MoCA network. You plug the switch's uplink port into the MoCA bridge, then plug your devices into the switch.
The adapters claim a high transfer rate, but note that they only have a 100Mbit Ethernet port, so a device is never going to exceed about 80Mbit. If you need even more performance than that (seriously, what are you doing?), these adapters won't work for you.
on December 24, 2015
This is the best Christmas present I could have given myself. My computer is on the second floor and my router/modem is on the first. The wireless signal just can't pass through all the walls and concrete. At first I tried a couple of network extenders that turned out to be complete garbage. After trying to hire contractors to run cat-5 cable (who never replied to my emails), I stumbled upon these devices.
Hookup time was about 5 minutes tops. I ran upstairs and turned it on and...
Nothing! Power and network light flashing, but no Coax light. My worst fear had come true, the upstairs cable was somehow separate from the cable downstairs. To confirm I connected the second box to a second tv outlet downstairs and everything worked. So this is what I did:
I opened the box on the side of the house which had some big box/booster something-or-other with several outputs of coax. One by one, I disconnected them and figured out which one was the upstairs room and which one was the room on the first floor with the working Actiontec box. I then simply swapped the coax outs, thus making my upstairs tv the downstairs tv. I then reconnected the second Actiontec box to the outlet upstairs.
I have a minor concern about security but I doubt the neighbors would be on the same cable as me and even if they did, they don't know I have these devices.
I get speeds that look like I'm plugged straight into the modem/router. I just hope these last because I am am loving this. Finally after years of wonky internet, I have a solid connection.
Edit: Good call on the POE filter. I got one installed in about two minutes. Here's to a lag-less new year!
Hookup time was about 5 minutes tops. I ran upstairs and turned it on and...
Nothing! Power and network light flashing, but no Coax light. My worst fear had come true, the upstairs cable was somehow separate from the cable downstairs. To confirm I connected the second box to a second tv outlet downstairs and everything worked. So this is what I did:
I opened the box on the side of the house which had some big box/booster something-or-other with several outputs of coax. One by one, I disconnected them and figured out which one was the upstairs room and which one was the room on the first floor with the working Actiontec box. I then simply swapped the coax outs, thus making my upstairs tv the downstairs tv. I then reconnected the second Actiontec box to the outlet upstairs.
I have a minor concern about security but I doubt the neighbors would be on the same cable as me and even if they did, they don't know I have these devices.
I get speeds that look like I'm plugged straight into the modem/router. I just hope these last because I am am loving this. Finally after years of wonky internet, I have a solid connection.
Edit: Good call on the POE filter. I got one installed in about two minutes. Here's to a lag-less new year!
on May 17, 2014
I have a synology NAS with my digital media. In another room I have a wdtv media player and wifi is not enough to play even 720p. Sometimes is slow or I just cannot ffwd or rwd properly. With a network cable works like a charm. Initially I purchase a Slingbox turbo device, who is basically a network over AC kit, where you use your existing power installation in home to transfer network data. Works but speed is very slow so I have similar problems like with WIFI.
I search and purchase another kit, now from tplink. I get the "more expensive" version "gigabit" and the problem is still there! I cannot enjoy my digital collection properly from another room where the NAs is located!
And finally I discover this item in amazon, and reviews from other vendors indicates this is not gigabit but you get a real 100Mbits network, so I get one of this and voila!!! Now I get 9 - 10 Mb/s transfer rate at all times! I can enjoy my dvd, 720p and 1080p videos from my NAS in another room thanks to this device! (with the ethernert over power device I get 300kbs!!!).
Please notice this item is REALLY well built, everything is included in the box: coax cable, network cable, splitter. Is easy to install. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
I search and purchase another kit, now from tplink. I get the "more expensive" version "gigabit" and the problem is still there! I cannot enjoy my digital collection properly from another room where the NAs is located!
And finally I discover this item in amazon, and reviews from other vendors indicates this is not gigabit but you get a real 100Mbits network, so I get one of this and voila!!! Now I get 9 - 10 Mb/s transfer rate at all times! I can enjoy my dvd, 720p and 1080p videos from my NAS in another room thanks to this device! (with the ethernert over power device I get 300kbs!!!).
Please notice this item is REALLY well built, everything is included in the box: coax cable, network cable, splitter. Is easy to install. HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
on November 23, 2015
These units are a little pricey however they work great.
Verizon FIOS or any of the providers out there will only guarantee your internet speed that's coming to the modem/router.
If you do a hard-wire LAN ethernet test and say you get 80 mbs but your wireless you only get 20-30 then it's not Verizon or any provider's problem.
My wifi signal was spotty across the house.
I used powerline adapters... basically running the internet through the power cables in the house which gave me around 15 mbs down in the basement.
These units are great because you already have the coaxial wiring into the back of your cable box.
You simply take that cable out of your cable/fios fox, and put it into the input port on this.
You then run another coaxial from this unit for tv back into the box for the tv.... depending on your setup you may need to put a splitter in place... so active line into splitter... one cable line then goes into cable/fios box.. other goes into moca ethernet adapter.
You can now do a couple of things. Once plugged in etc.. you will see a green light for power, and a green light for coaxial.
You can now run an ethernet cable from this unit directly into your computer, xbox etc... or you could setup a wifi router from here.
Overall it has been working very well where this is a very good alternative trying to wrack your brain with configuring routers and the like.
I am also getting speeds that I am supposed to be getting.. the powerline adapters etc.. which also work also cut my internet in 1/2 basically due to being on the other side of the main box in the house.
Verizon FIOS or any of the providers out there will only guarantee your internet speed that's coming to the modem/router.
If you do a hard-wire LAN ethernet test and say you get 80 mbs but your wireless you only get 20-30 then it's not Verizon or any provider's problem.
My wifi signal was spotty across the house.
I used powerline adapters... basically running the internet through the power cables in the house which gave me around 15 mbs down in the basement.
These units are great because you already have the coaxial wiring into the back of your cable box.
You simply take that cable out of your cable/fios fox, and put it into the input port on this.
You then run another coaxial from this unit for tv back into the box for the tv.... depending on your setup you may need to put a splitter in place... so active line into splitter... one cable line then goes into cable/fios box.. other goes into moca ethernet adapter.
You can now do a couple of things. Once plugged in etc.. you will see a green light for power, and a green light for coaxial.
You can now run an ethernet cable from this unit directly into your computer, xbox etc... or you could setup a wifi router from here.
Overall it has been working very well where this is a very good alternative trying to wrack your brain with configuring routers and the like.
I am also getting speeds that I am supposed to be getting.. the powerline adapters etc.. which also work also cut my internet in 1/2 basically due to being on the other side of the main box in the house.
