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Quick question about MOCA (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm pretty new with networking but I have Frontier Fiber, they installed a Moca adapter in my living room that is then connected to a wireless router. I want to get a wired connection to my room to my PC. Can I just connect another MOCA adapter to a coax jack in my room and then connect an ethernet cable to my PC? Will this cause my bandwidth to be cut in half? or would I still be able to get full down and up speeds? If I wanted to connected to both my xbox and my PC am I able to connect the moca adapter to a network switch and then connect both my xbox and PC that way?

Any help is appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I have Frontier Fiber, they installed a Moca adapter in my living room that is then connected to a wireless router.

Inspect this adapter and how it’s connected more closely.

Can you report a model # for the MoCA adapter?
To what port on the router is the adapter connected?
Does the MoCA adapter have a physical configuration toggle switch next to its coax port? (example) If yes, what settings are available and to what position is it currently set?

My guess would be that you have a Frontier FCA252 MoCA 2.5 adapter, set to “25GW” and connected to the router Ethernet WAN port, to effect a MoCA WAN link with the ONT over your coax — rather than having a direct CATX Ethernet connection between the ONT and router. So this adapter is strictly for effecting the WAN connection between the ONT and router.

Can I just connect another MOCA adapter to a coax jack in my room and then connect an ethernet cable to my PC?

Sure. But it likely wouldn’t be of any benefit without first ensuring that you’ve established a MoCA LAN access point at the router. And you’d have some small amount of legwork to do to make sure that the coax outlets interconnect.

Will this cause my bandwidth to be cut in half? or would I still be able to get full down and up speeds?

It depends on what your subscribed speeds are and what specific MoCA adapter(s) you choose to employ. MoCA supports up to 2500 Mbps unidirectional throughput with the MoCA 2.5 spec.