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Currently-manufactured MoCA bridge device that can substitute for the MI424WR on FiOS

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  • MoCA
  • bridges
  • Networking
  • FiOS
  • Verizon
October 15, 2014 11:03:40 AM

My home Internet connectivity is via Verizon's FiOS. It has been increasingly unreliable, and I would like to rule out the possibility that it's the local router at fault. This is currently a Verizon-provided MI424WR device, which has already been replaced twice, which one would think would be conclusive, but that's not what their customer support says. Anyway, the obvious move is to swap it out for a known-good device from another manufacturer. Unfortunately, they use this wacky "MoCA" protocol to carry signal from the ONT in the basement (or possibly on a nearby telephone pole?) over coax cable to the MI424WR, so any substitute has to have that physical jack and speak that protocol. Per http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16626 I need not just a MoCA bridge, but a MoCA WAN bridge, and all of the devices they list have been discontinued, and don't appear to be available used on Ebay anymore either.

Please suggest currently manufactured devices that are known to work in this role. Please do not suggest other ActionTec products, unless you can prove to me that that really is the only game in town anymore.

(For clarity, I want a device that is only a bridge. I already have a known-good router/WiFi hub.)

Things that are not an option:

* Running twisted-pair to the ONT - I do not own the building.
* Switching to some other ISP - the only alternative in this area is Comcast.

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