Greeting all.
I would like your advice on this. I've just moved to a house with coax cabling but no ethernet anywhere.
So I have already ordered 2 pcs WF-803M devices waiting for the arrival here in Denmark in a few days.
The coax connection from the street (the cable provider) terminates in the garage from where 3 coax "strings" runs around the house. This is an old style cabling where several TV wall plugs are kinda daisy chained on the same string - not placed in a star topology.
Since I do not use the TV signal at all from the cable provider, I wanted to connect the 3 strings in the garage to form a single coax "backbone" so I can connect MoCA adapters on any TV wall plugs (effectively turning them into ethernet LAN) and have them all see each other.
My question is: How do I best connect these three coax strings in the Garage? Is it as simple as connecting them to the "out"-ports of a 3-way splitter, leaving the "in"-port empty?
Any comments or advice is highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Henrik
Henrik,
Any Coax splitter rated over 1050MHz should work. MoCA does not care about IN or OUT ports. As long as all MoCA nodes are connected in a parallel fashion, they should be able to "elect "a network coordinator and communicate with each other. MoCA supports 16 nodes in total per channel. You can have multiple channels on the same coax wire. For example, a D1-band at 1150MHz, a D2-band at 1200MHz.
ploog,
Amphenol Broadband Solutions is one of Verizon's current MoCA splitter manufacturer. If you are a Verizon customer, an installation tech can bring you Amphenol MoCA splitters up to 8-ways free of charge. Customers can get free 2-way splitters from Verizon store too.
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Thanks to all who contributed to this - I have now ordered additional 3 MoCA adapters for a total of 5 to use around the house. Also order a second two-way splitter + 2 PoE filters to be able to configure the network like we see in the second drawing on the product page. Once my fiber connection gets delivered it will be a simpler setup, but that could take a while still. So I am really happy and grateful for all your answers that helped me get to this point. 😀
@J. C. and others - here's the drawing attached. Sorry for the poor standard 😀
"TV WP" means the different wall plugs that will be used for plugging in MoCA adapters. And off couse a MoCA adapter will be placed in the rack as well.
PoE filter is just to reduce the interference from outside the house. PoE filter should be installed at where the outside coaxial cable is coming into the house.
Can you draw a brief diagram of your MoCA/Coax network?
Definitely get fiber if you can. DOCSIS's upload speed is inherently slow.
I did get my first two devices and have been testing all night. So basically the MoCA side of things seems to work fine. I am getting full gigabit speed out of most of my TV wall plugs. A few drops below to about 6-800 Mbps, but I guess this is an old installation with potential issues. But I cannot get the cable modem to function when it is connected through the adapter on the "TV" plug - like on the first drawing of the product page: MoCA 2.5 | MoCA Ethernet adapter (gocoax.com) I am guessing my cable modem is a DOCSIS 3.1 modem and I fall into the second drawing and need a second splitter and PoE filter? My modem is a Sagemcom F@ST 3890 V3, but I have not been able to verify if this is whats causing the issue? (the thing with the upper frequency) Also I'm not sure I understand what the PoE filter is doing in this scenario. Any advice on how to buy the right PoE filter here in Europe is appreciated. Hopefully later this year I will be getting a fiber connection and will not be using the cable modem anymore, so that will drop me into the third drawing.
Thanks for the answer guys. Not sure about the PoE filter thing, as I am not going to use the cable TV provider for anything. My internet provider does not use coax.
So the "In" port of the splitter would not be used at all. Only the "Out" ports to try and connect the 3 coax "string" that run around in the house. All I'm trying to accomplish is reuse the coax cabling in the building for data instead.
@ploog I realize you are trying to answer this - sorry if you already did 😀
@goCoax The specs on the splitter I have says 5 MHz to 2500 MHz.
Or I can order one of those @ploog links to if this does not work.
I will test the components once I get them all and try to make a drawing of the setup if I still need help.
I'm not sure what you'd do about the daisy-chaining, but you might consider using a "PoE" MoCA filter on the garage 3-way splitter's input port, capped w/ a 75-ohm terminator, to emulate the typical setup. At a minimum, you should cap the unused input port w/ a 75-ohm terminator; I'm just not certain whether the terminator alone provides the same reflective effect sought from a "PoE" MoCA filter.
Yes, just connect them to a 3-way MoCA compatible splitter.
Make sure the splitter can cover 1125-1675MHz.