How does this MOCA thing work?

ThiefOfOranges

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Okay, so I am looking for a wired internet solution for my computer right now. The cable modem in my house is downstairs and the computer I want connected through Ethernet is upstairs. Obviously I don't want to run a cable all the way upstairs, so I'm looking into MOCA but I am not 100% certain I understand it. My question is this, I have a working coaxial port at my computer, can I just buy a MOCA adapter, plug it in through coax, and plug an ethernet cable into my computer? Is it that easy, because it seems when I look it up, people put the adapters between their modems/cable boxes. Can I just plug it in upstairs and receive internet through that, or is there more to it? Sorry if this question seems trivial, I just don't want to buy one of these if it won't work.

EDIT: So I have gathered that you need two devices, one in between the modem and then one that acts as a receiver upstairs at the computer. So a two pack would be about $120, so I guess my question now is how well do these things work? When I direct connected my laptop to the modem, I was getting about 300Mbps down, could I expect close to that with a MOCA or would there be a dropoff? And if so, how bad?
 
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As you have figured out you need 2 unless you have one of newest cable modems that has a moca adapter built into it. Moca is not used by a lot of people because of issue of sharing with the cable or satellite company equipment. Most the whole house DVR stuff is accomplished either by using actual moca protocols or it uses something proprietary on the same part of the coax cable frequencies. When you put your own moca device in sometimes they have issue coexisting with this other stuff. If you do not have tv service or it is a simple cable box you have a much better chance to not have issue using moca.

You want moca 2.0 devices for best results. I doubt you get 300m, hard to say there are not a lot sites that do real good...
As you have figured out you need 2 unless you have one of newest cable modems that has a moca adapter built into it. Moca is not used by a lot of people because of issue of sharing with the cable or satellite company equipment. Most the whole house DVR stuff is accomplished either by using actual moca protocols or it uses something proprietary on the same part of the coax cable frequencies. When you put your own moca device in sometimes they have issue coexisting with this other stuff. If you do not have tv service or it is a simple cable box you have a much better chance to not have issue using moca.

You want moca 2.0 devices for best results. I doubt you get 300m, hard to say there are not a lot sites that do real good comparison testing....I suspect because pretty much all the units are from actiontec.

Moca is a valid option but most people use powerline device because they do not have the coax. The very newest powerline units (av1200 based) get in the 200m range on average.
 
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