#Wow moca ethernet tv

(Please forgive the crudity of this model I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it.)īlack lines are cable TV cable (preferably RG6), orange lines are Ethernet. The diagram here is a slightly-more-elaborate version of the one I made for myself when I did my setup. All MoCA hardware regardless of manufacturer should be interoperable. Other manufacturers I know of are Actiontec and Netgear. I found them used on eBay for around $40 each. Using a separate router and wireless access point will also work. it needs to have Ethernet jacks for the inside network. You will want a wireless router that also does routing to wired stations. The cable companies' outside plants don't generally carry these but most people's inside wiring can. MoCA actually uses a technology similar to cable internet, but in a much higher range of frequencies. It doesn't interfere with cable TV either. Other MoCA modems can be installed wherever the cable TV line is. One MoCA modem will hook up at the place where the cable modem and your router are. Generally you would have only one cable modem installed, unless you have two accounts with your cable ISP (it's generally one cable modem per account).

What you plug into the MoCA modem can be an Ethernet switch or a wireless access point, so you can have a bunch of stuff using one modem. This modem handles the 'bridging' between Ethernet and the MoCA signal. You need a MoCA modem (also called a MoCA adapter) for each place where there's a coax cable and you want to plug in an Ethernet cable. Running Cat-something would have made me happier, but was not practical to do. I am using MoCA very successfully in my home.