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I am currently using powerline adapters to get internet access into my living room as the wireless signal from my router in my family room does not travel through the plaster walls very well in my older construction home.

I have lots of problems with the powerline and want to give MoCA a shot. Do I need one adapter or two to connect my PC that is in my living to the coax cable in that room? Or do I need one between the Cable modem and the router? The information seems to be all over the place.

I am not using Verizon FIOS - I am a Comcast digital cable subscriber.
 
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You would plug the moca adapter ethernet port into the router lan ports. The hard part is the coax cable on the moca. If you have a extra coax connection just hook the coax port for the moca to that. If the only one you have is hooked to your cable modem then you may have issues.

Some of the moca devices say to hook the moca to the wall and the cable modem to the moca device. Other say to put in what is called a diplexer between the wall and the two devices. I would say you always run the risk of getting less signal the more stuff you put between you and the ISP but if that is your only option then you will have to research the best way to do it.
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You always need to use these in pairs like powerline adapters. They work similar just ones uses power and the other uses the tv coax. The tricky thing about the MoCA is when you need to carry tv on the same cable.

If your goal was to move your router to another location you could put a moca on the modem and then another one on the other end on the router. It would appear as a ethernet cable in theory. If you wanted to plug a PC in you would instead plug the moca on one end into the router lan port and the pc into the other moca device.

The thing you do not want to ever do is insert the moca between the ISP and the modem. There is suppose to be a way to do this when you only have a single coax in the room with the modem but the modem to ISP connection is extremely sensitive to even having the wrong splitters so it is best to no mess with that connectivity.
 
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I currently have a cable modem plugged into my router. I don't want to move my router, I just want to create the moca bridge so I can use a moca adapter in another room. How do I configure this?

 
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You would plug the moca adapter ethernet port into the router lan ports. The hard part is the coax cable on the moca. If you have a extra coax connection just hook the coax port for the moca to that. If the only one you have is hooked to your cable modem then you may have issues.

Some of the moca devices say to hook the moca to the wall and the cable modem to the moca device. Other say to put in what is called a diplexer between the wall and the two devices. I would say you always run the risk of getting less signal the more stuff you put between you and the ISP but if that is your only option then you will have to research the best way to do it.
 
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