Motorola MoCA Adapter for Ethernet Over Coax, Plug and Play, Ultra Fast Speeds, Boost Home Network for Better Streaming and Gaming (1 Gbps – MoCA 2 Pack)

I have coax cable in the walls designed for Cable TV and installed in 1991. Using that with two of these adapters, I consistently get over 900 Mbits/second in both directions. I have had them installed for a couple of months and the connection has been 100% reliable. This setup does not share the cable with Cable TV or any other device and has no splitter in the circuit.

I just replaced some Actiontec adapters with these Motorola units. Despite supposedly being bonded I could never get more than about 60MB a sec to my NAS out of the actiontec units. With the Motorola MM1000s Im getting 94MB/sec on the same cable segment (this compares to ~105MB/sec for direct gigabit ethernet). MoCa adds ~3.5ms to the round trip packet time compared to ethernet and these units behave as expected in that regard. The MM1000s are interoperating well with my remaining Actiontec units with no problems at the slower, ~60MB/sec speed. Overall good value, easy to install, they include ethernet cable, MoCa filter, coax cable and a wrench for undoing coax.

Works great. I was first trying to feed internet from second floor to the first floor over electrical network, but it was loosing about 75% of bandwidth (from 120mbs down to 30mbs) because the electrical outlets were not on the same circuit of my house. With these moca transmitters I loose about 5mbs out of 120mbs so I almost get my full bandwidth without running cat6 cable around the house.

Let me preface that my install isnt the same as many others. But let me get into the nitty-gritty. Yes, I gave it a 5 for easy to install and easy to use. It works. Kinda. I am handicapped, so my router is upstairs where it normally is, with my brother and father hooked via cat5e as a normal connection would be. I however, am stuck downstairs. I had tried wifi after my accident, but it just wasnt good enough for gaming. Especially with verizons terrible router and range. So I replaced the fios g1100 router with my own asus rt-ac86u and ordered this pack of two moca set. From the router, one of the lan ports goes to one of the moca boxes, to inject moca into the network, and then into coax. Downstairs in my living room where I now live, the living room coax comes out, into the in on a two way splitter, and then one connection goes to my set top box, the other to my second moca box from this kit which connects to my PC. Side step back (like a story book! yay) the fios G1100 router has moca 2.0 NOT bonded already a part of said box. That is how your set top box gets tv guide and on demand without needing a wired cat5e connection. At the time I had an actiontec ecb6000 (moca 2.0 NOT bonded adapter) which gave me 400/400 max speed to the fios g1100. Not too shabby (but I have gigabit, which usually nets 880/880 and 920/920 on a good day). I wanted more speed so I upgraded to moca 2.0 bonded. Knowing that the fios router would limit speeds to 2.0 NOT bonded, I had to junk it. Back to the main story. At first I was getting about 600/600 which isnt bad but still not full speed. Longer story shorter, I thought the one moca box that is by the router fried. The power went out in just that hallway/computer room, and the adapter would not connect, neither to lan or coax signal.... the instructions say you can reset the box to factory settings by hitting the reset switch for 3 seconds. nothing changed. figured it was blown. so I buy ANOTHER box (this time from microcenter, they sell the same boxes for the same price). Hook that box into the fried box location, now I only get 150/150. I went through every bit of troubleshooting I could think of. NOTHING would fix my issue. I tried logging into the boxes themselves, changing moca channel frequency (from 1150 to 1500) and it wouldnt work. The boxes always revert to 1150 and will not accept another mhz frequency.... (even though the moca set standard requires you to be able to). So I contacted Motorola via email. we went back and fourth for awhile. they ended up suggesting I remove the set top boxes, and reset the main motorola box, and then turn mine on down here.... so I did. I removed the coax from all 3 set top boxes (well, I did the main one right here, family had to do the two upstairs). Reset the main moca box connected to the router while my pc box was off. Then turned my pc moca box on. Tested the speed. 880/880, my usually max speed. OKAY THINGS ARE FIXED.... NOT. I then hook in the set top box, BAM, 150/150. After telling Motorola about this, they say The reason the speed drops to 1.1 speeds is that when the set top box goes to communicate, the motorola box drops to that lower speed. Okay first off THAT IS NOT HOW THE MOCA ALLIANCE STANDARD WORKS. The moca standard as such, newer moca is backwards compatible, and you will get the speed to the device that matches. So If I have a moca 2.0 bonded box injecting the network, my other moca 2.0 bonded box, and a set top box, that means that the set top box will run 1.1 speeds (about 170/170 max) while my moca 2.0 will run on a DIFFERENT FREQUENCY at the full moca 2.0 bonded speed (1000/1000). Apparently, these motorola boxes are not following the proper specs for the moca alliance (and honestly should be !@#$ing removed from sale). So essentially, as long as there is a set top box next to me, I will have reduced speeds for no proper honest reason. I DID HOWEVER get a short time fix for now. Instead of having the coax from the wall go the IN port of the two way splitter, and then one port out to my set top box and the other to my moca adapter, the IN port is now connected to my motorola 2.0 bonded moca box, and then the first out is connected to the wall and the other to my set top box. This SOMEHOW allowed me to get 500-600 up/down but very erratic, while retaining tv guide and on demand for the TV. ALL OF THIS could be solved if I switch to actiontec as their channels ARE changeable. I know this for a fact because I had the moca 2.0 NOT bonded actiontec box.... and I had to use channel 1500mhz so I could get moca 2.0 speeds while my set top box ran on 1150 (stock frequency for moca) at 1.1 speeds. This allowed both the set top box AND my actiontec to communicate at the same time. Now I KNOW for a fact that the motorola box upstairs is able to receive more than one signal at a time, because somehow right now I am getting ABOUT 500-600, essentially a really slow bonded speed, while the set top box is still connected.... so it can sense two things at once. why it wont let me select the frequency myself and SAVE to that frequency I dont know. I should easily be able to run 1500mhz bonded channel while the 1150 runs 1.1, as per the moca standard allows. This makes me truly believe the motorola products are GARBAGE. OH, and the box I thought fried, turns out motorola doesnt even know their own !@#$ing product, its 10 long slow seconds. literally 1 Mississippi with a good space between each number to 10.... then it resets. So now I have 3 moca boxes that technically work, but not to the TRUE moca alliance spec.... If you are trying to save money, DONT, buy the actiontec instead. Otherwise you will be sorry. HOWEVER, if you have internet up to 150/150, it wont be an issue as 1.1 speeds are up to 170/170 anyway.... if you have anything faster, dont waste your time as I did. I WOULD go buy the actiontec moca 2.5 adapters, but currently they are for service providers only which is just b/s to me.... but once they come out, I will be dumping these motorola brand in the trash, not even worth giving away if they cannot properly work within the moca alliance standard.... I am guessing that these boxes can only run one frequency at a time, so if the main box injecting into the network can only run one mhz instead of a range to accept more than one signal, that alone is a reason NOT to buy them.... if the verizon router can handle the full moca range with multiple frequencies at the same time, so should the moca box which is supposed to follow said standard. Some might say well actiontec has bonded 2.0 adapters yeah, but if I already have my setup jury-rigged to get me 600/600, i might as well wait until moca 2.5 becomes the newest model available to normal consumers, and then buy those instead.

Works well and is less expensive than the Actiontec adapters. Plug and play setup, without any bandwidth issues. Just make sure you use modern high bandwidth (up to 2500MHz) splitters. Most homes have very old splitters that will limit the MoCA 2.0 speeds of these adapters.

While the was hesitant to purchase do to the cost, I am so happy I did. I have a condo with vaulted ceilings on the main floor which sits on a slab. My networking equipment is upstairs, so there really wasnt a good way to run network cable from upstairs to downstairs, and not to have it on the walls. I never had heard of these before now. Note that these do come with POE filters, I didnt realize and had bought a separate one. I connected the main one to my router and then the second one I put down in my living room with a network switch in the uplink port. Speed tests were amazing! I have WOW 1gig internet. I got 247 down on my PS4 and over 700 down on my AppleTV. The cost was well worth it. Before I could never break 100 down on the PS4 over wifi or trying to use powerline adapters. I highly recommend this product. If you are on the fence on getting these like I was due to cost and other disappointing experiences with other devices,

My house is 25 years old and wired with the modern essentials of 1990s - coax and telephone jacks in every room. Wifi is good in most cases but with 4K streaming and online gaming - you want a lot of bandwidth (streaming) at low latencies (gaming) not to be clogging up your wifi air space. These do the trick nicely. I have one near the cable modem and router and another upstairs near my TV, media players, and gaming computer - its essentially a 1Gbps wired connection without having to fish ethernet cable through the walls. Plug and play without the hassle of any setup - although if you want, you can log into them and set an encryption key to secure the data on the coax - useful only if your coax is connected to the outside network and you live close to your neighbors. Its trivial but not necessary in most situations. Mind you MoCA doesnt play well with Sat TV providers, so if youre using Dish or DirecTV, youll have to either isolate the coax you want to use for MoCA or use a slower product called DeCA which tops out at 1-200Mbps. These are fast and easy to setup, well worth the cost.

My parents had underground coax ran between their house and barn (to provide internet to barn). I used this to connect directly to their homes internal network and it works great. Very reliable and great speeds.

ive had it in use about 6 weeks now, and have had no issues with it. you have to understand the coax, cabling wiring, but no configuration necessary and works very well.

Looks decent, works well most of the time. From time to time it knocks off and requires a power cycle to work again. The cable isnt shared with any TV signal so it is likely not interference on the line. But thats rare and it mostly works fine, so Im happy with it.