This video is much easier to watch at 1.25x speed.

@o7juan

Жыл бұрын

It's better at 2x

@ericb2017

10 ай бұрын

what a Chad.

@wintutorials2282

4 ай бұрын

i watch every video at 2x

@OsitoPreciso

2 ай бұрын

Confirmed

@JDDees

Күн бұрын

@chad - watch at whatever speed you want... WE DON'T CARE!

Your video saved me! Our modem was installed in the basement. router is on first floor. Worked for a while, then stopped recently. Couldnt get it working using Customer support. I strung a 100' ethernet cable from basement to router, and it worked fine, but couldn't find an easy way to get it thru walls/floor. I read about Coax to Ethernet adapters and gave it a try, since we have unused coax thruout house. I got 2 Hitron MoCa 2.5 adapters. I watched a bunch of videos and couldnt get it working. Found you video, which clearly and logically laid out how this type of system works and communicates. You were also the first to explain how older splitters often wont pass the MoCa 2.5 signals. I ditched the 2 splitters in the path, and it instantly worked!! I think I could have gotten older cheaper non-MoCa adapters, and it might have worked, even with the splitters. Thanks for all the great information, presented in such a clear way.

Thank you so so much!! The explanation about the version of not having access to room by room Coax runs, really helped, with the explanation of a splitter. Not all apartments give access to the runs from a central loation to their dedicated endpoints like an MDF or IDF. 🙌💯🔥

this is the most simplified video i've found. Ordering my pieces now

Paul, your content, production and editing are first class! I can tell you take great effort. Good for you sir!

@5PortStudios

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m really trying to learn new techniques each time I make a new video. I really appreciate you checking out the video and commenting. Coming from a successful creator as yourself, with the plethora of videos, subscribers, and video creation skills, I take your words with pride. Thank you again. And if you have any feedback for me, please let me know, as I will gladly take any and all.

One of the best how-to videos on a topic I didn't know existed.

Dang, this is an awesome explanation of how these devices work and should be configured! Thanks for the video.

I’ve been in the cable industry since the early 80’s . Luckily my home has an unfinished basement,plus I have duct going to my detached garage , as I recently removed the majority of my rg6 coax and ran just over 1000’ of cat6 . In my lifetime,I never would have believed Ethernet was the future . I only use coax to my modem located in a network rack in my basement, then I have ubiquity equipment, including a 24 port switch. Ran cat6 to five G4 pro cameras , also because I’m not a fan of wireless, I’m feeding my new cable portals with cat6 , bypassing it’s wireless capability. I ran 3 cat6 lines to my living room,as I also have a network receiver that I use to steam my music , plus a spare . Also have 4 cat6 lines going to my computer room . I will have 2 computers in the filter plus a laser printer . I use 2 access points , so I have no wireless issues and my laser printer works fine wirelessly,but as I mentioned I prefer to hard wire whatever I can . If I built a new home I would run a minimum of 2 cat6’s to every bedroom , 4 at the home theatre location, and 4 to the computer room. Will be interesting to see what another 30 years brings . Probably fiber and wireless I suspect

Thanks for this video, the moca works like magic 🙏🏻 this video was made for me I only needed 2 rooms and it’s awesome

Great explanation, finally found one that makes sense. Thanks! 😊

I have done the same using MOCA adapters. The MOCA adapters worked, even on live coax lines. The thing to remember with MOCA is that you MUST put a MOCA filter on the coax line coming into the house so that you don't send the MOCA signal back out into the cable system. Not only does the cable company not want your MOCA signal on their system, if your neighbor has a MOCA receiver, they may be able to receive your signal and tap into your network. Using the filter will also boost your signal within the house.

@irahartoch1075

Жыл бұрын

I did the same. If your modem (& router if separate) are NOT in the basement you MUST be able to use live coax lines to do this. My modem and router are in the den. I have the coax line from the distribution box that goes to the wall in the den. From there I go to a 2-way splitter. One "out" from the splitter goes to the modem. Cat 6 ethernet cable from the modem to the router. Another Cat 6 ethernet cable from the router to the MoCA adapter (I use GoCoax). Then a coax cable from the adapter back to the other "out" of the splitter. I converted an older router into a access point on the second floor in a bedroom. The coax cable from the basement to that room is attached to the same distribution box in the basement so it is live. I connected a second GoCoax adapter to the wall in that bedroom and ran a Cat 6 ethernet cable to the old router. Works like a charm and I get virtually the same speed out of the old router in the bedroom (with an attached device) as I do from the main router in the den! One caution (in addition to adding the POE filter you mentioned). MoCA tends to work on higher frequencies than the cable companies use for TV/internet/phone. If you try this and it doesn't work it may be that your splitter(s) and/or the main distribution box in the basement isn't "MoCA compatible". On the face of the splitter(S) there will be a range of frequencies for which it is designed. Most of the ones from cable companies are 5-1000mhz. To be MoCA compatible you need splitters that go up to AT LEAST 1600mhz. MoCA tends to use the frequencies between 1000 and 1600mhz.

@joshuaArthurBritton360

Жыл бұрын

is there a totorial video for those types,i bought one and cant figure it out

@wmcomprev

Жыл бұрын

@@joshuaArthurBritton360 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lqGTvNCymJrbipM.html&pp=ygUMbW9jYSBhZGFwdGVy

@RSV9

Жыл бұрын

I did not know about the MOCA filter and if you buy two adapters there is no filter included in the starter kit

@dennisbradley190

4 ай бұрын

I have mine running on Live cable was well. I put the MOCA filter where the cable comes into the house.

Good video, well explained !!

dude! finally presented in a way that made me understand what the fuck I was trying to learn!! the diagrams and commentary of the different TYPES of coaxial setups people can have! BUT, still no one I have found has clearly explained that an adapter is NOT needed if the modem/router is MoCA compatible!!!! Then I only need one damn adapter in the room that I need to convert coaxial to ethernet!!! why did this take me so long to find today!!!!!!

@H.T.2forever

7 ай бұрын

True ... But just don't confuse the adapters in this video with "MoCA" adapters. As those are not MoCA, but "G.hn over coax" type adapters. Which operate on very different frequencies and have a different transmission format than MoCA uses.

No one seems to talk about how I can use the coax in the room that that needs to connect to the coax to receive the connection to the modem in the first place

This video is perfect!!!!

I would like to see a comparison between these G.cn devices and MOCA 2.5 devices with 2.5 Gb Ethernet ports.. The Comtrend GCA-7000 you have here and the ScreamBeam ECB7250K02 for example.

Loved the video But my set-up in my home is a little different. My modem and Asus mesh router are located in my living room. My home has coaxial and ethernate thru out the house. But my coaxial cables are located in my laundry room by my garage. How can I the moca work for me. I'm new at this.

For the coax that would normally go out to the modem, can I put a coax splitter from the wall with one coax into the modem and one coax into the adapter? The modem will plug into a router via ethernet (yellow port) and the parallel adapter will plug into the same router via ethernet (other available port). I'd rather do this to prevent the adapter from being a single point of failure to my modem and want to see if it is possible to configure my setup this way? Thanks!

Moved into a house last year, about 1500 square-foot, no ethernet ports but coax cable connections in each of the three bedrooms and living room. Has spectrum Internet service. I get great Wi-Fi speed on everything, when I do Speedtest on my phone, or Apple TV, I get the full Wi-Fi speed that I'm supposed to be getting, but not on gaming consoles, I have been thinking of getting a cable in my bedroom for PS5. Sounds like this might work?

what is the max length of the coax cable it can support and supply an internet?

You can use MOCA adapters and cable tv over the same coax network. Cable TV uses frequencies on the coax cable of under 1000 mhz while MOCA uses 1100-1600mhz, generally. Also, be aware that most cable TV providers install cheap coax splitters that only pass thru frequencies under 1000 mhz. This can stop MOCA signals from moving thru the wiring. You can buy splitters that go up to 2000 mhz and these should be used for MOCA networks. These numbers are usually on the front of the splitters and easy to check.

@H.T.2forever

7 ай бұрын

Correct ... Which is what causes the confusion as the adapters in the video are actually not MoCA, but "G.hn over coax" adapters. Which use some of the same frequencies as cable TV, and therefore can't share the same coax with it. However, they can be used with satellite TV on the same cable. As their operating frequencies do not overlap with G.hn over coax. Whereas MoCA cannot share with satellite. *Or at least the popular "D" band (1125-1675 MHz) MoCA adapters can't share with satellite on the same coax that may use as much as 400-2150 MHz.

@Eclipse8504

2 ай бұрын

​@@H.T.2foreverI'm glad you mentioned this information because my internet comes in through the basement and I want to use one of the existing coax ports on the opposite side of the house where the internet is extremely poor to setup a connection where I can create another hotspot. I have DirecTV and a TV in this room, so I will need to still maintain this connection. So you're saying I wouldn't be able to use MoCA?

If the router has coax going to it already do I instead plug it into the Moca and then the Ethernet to the router? Or do I need a splitter and need to run both. Thank you

This is great if your coax cables are in the house. My house the cables are on the outside next to power, TV etc. behind seperate wall panels. Good video though.

I believe there are MOCA adapters that let you run it on coax that has a cable signal.

At 15.30 instead of using a switch connector for multiple ports is it possible to plug into a router for wifi connection? Will that still work?

Is you coax cable grounded? I believe my coax cable only grounds when connected to the powered splitter in the cable box. Whereas, the coax I'll be using will be "dead" coax and so I don't think will be grounded. I had to connect two coax in the cable box together via a 3Ghz dual female connector. Though I guess I could look into getting like a grounding clamp and run a wire to the ground wire, or just hook up it up the powered splitter and put a MOCA filter on the incoming cable, as my MOCA adapter can be used with a cable signal.

A few Questions: My house is wired with coax cables all individually terminating to a splitter in the garage. I use Verizon Fios internet and the ONT box is in the garage. This limits me to having my modem/wifi router located in the garage which gives me degraded wifi signal where my TV is located. If I use the GCA-7000 to transfer my signal through coax, can I connect the ethernet cable directly to the ONT box and move my modem/router to a location better suited for good wifi in the house? Or should I connect the ethernet to the modem/router in the garage instead? In this situation could I use a second wifi router within the house to improve the wifi signal? Thanks for any assistance and advice.

My house was built in 2020. It has 2 coax ports but they don’t seem to be live? Any advice

Im confused, I live in a townhome right? So I don’t have a basement, can I keep the modem connected and just use a splitter?

Hi, this is the future! Considering running fiber to be future-proof at this juncture. But since I have attic access, going to run Category-8 cable for all the second-floor drops off of an unmanaged 10GB switch - in the attic. Why not, right? It adds to the value ofbthe house. How ‘bout some single-network access points for WiFi, too.

So what if you have fiber internet that's delivered over an optical cable going into your modem instead of coaxial, will this still work?

Would anyoner know if the adapter can then lead onto another modem for ESSENTIALLY a new access port??

What about if you do not have coax in your walls? I have Directv, but the coax is not running throughout the house, just to the tv.

hi thank you for the explanation. Will this work too on a DSL connection? Im in Eastern Europe village, they have an VDSL speed of 250 mbs, what product would you recommend , the MOCA or the COMTREND you're using?

@H.T.2forever

Жыл бұрын

If the VDSL band there is the same as here in the US, i.e., between 25 KHz to around 18 MHz. Then no unfortunately.... As these adapters operate between 5 to 200 MHz.

You know, I'd love to see a Coax G.hn PCI expansion card come out. It would make the use of the coax cabling much cleaner on the client-end as you could just plug a coax cable directly into the back of your PC instead of having a separate little box in-between using up another wall socket. If anyone knows of one that already exists please enlighten me!

Question, what if I don't know the house uses splitters? I have a new home where all the coax cables go into a room to connect to what use to be i guess a location for a TV modem box. Would I be safe just doing your first set up over multiple times?

@CatBot007

Жыл бұрын

Try it and if it dosent work you can just return it it should work with most splitters however it does not work with coaxial switches

Good lord, I’m 8 minutes in and the video appears unable to acknowledge the existence of MoCA … which works quite well with cable TV/Internet or OTA antenna signals on the coax.

@karlkaufman2659

Жыл бұрын

Excellent segments within the video, including the animated graphics illustrating home wiring alternatives and the table layout demonstrating basic connectivity; but more could have been done to demonstrate actual throughput (iPerf3 segment results) and highlighting where/why these adapters would be preferable to MoCA.

@5PortStudios

Жыл бұрын

Lol. I suppose it’s a good thing these aren’t MoCa, I would have been forgetting quite a lot of content. 🤣 But seriously, thank you for watching and the feedback. I will have to dive into some of the more technical items as well (as you pointed out in your other reply). Please keep the feedback coming, it’s the only way for me to get better at this. Side note: I’ll chat with Comtrend and see if any MoCa devices are on the horizon, since it sounds like it would really change the situations for people with coax cable services.

But. What dictates whether the coax is for tv or internet?

If you have a splitter box in the basement and have all the old coax plugged into them can you run a single coax to ethernet converter to the whole box so that it goes to each room? That way no matter which room you go to if you have a converter plugged In there will be internet available?

@5PortStudios

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can definitely do that. Put the Coax to Ethernet adapter’s coax into the splitter and it’ll feed signal to all coax lines that are connected so all you’d have to do is have a converter in each room and connect the Ethernet from the adapter to your device. This will share the connection from the one adapter, but you should be good to go since it essentially is like a gigabit switch using coax instead of Ethernet.

despite the fact that it will (arguably) be functionally the same as a 3 port LAN hub; - its relative simplicity anulles any problem (arguably, also)...

Hello, I have a question: I live in a small apartment behind my landlords larger house. He has a Spectrum cable box, modem, and wifi router towards the front of his house, (There's an additional Spectrum cable box in my bedroom for my TV, on his same account). I use his wifi signal to connect my bedroom laptop to the Internet, but the signal is very weak, even with an extender I purchased and connected. So my question is this: would it be as simple as just splitting the coaxil cable that goes into my cable box and connecting a 3rd party modem for a legitimate strong Internet signal which I can run to my laptop with an Ethernet cable? Thank you.

@5PortStudios

Жыл бұрын

Hey! Here’s a long-winded answer to your question. If I understand cable modems, coax cable services need a device (like a modem or cable box) activated and registered with the internet service provider to get the correct signals and give you internet, which the main modem your landlord would have set up. There are rare situations, depending on the company, that they may allow multiple modems on an account due to extenuating circumstances in homes (even if you have two of the same modems, they’ll have separate unique MAC Addresses that would need to be in the ISP’s account system). But sometimes they’ll make the account holder pay for two internet services, I don’t know 100%. Honestly, you may actually have better luck using a set of the Nexuslink WB-1750 units. You’d put one inside the landlords house connected to one of their Ethernet ports and try to get it as close as possible to your apartment, and put the other unit in your apartment. It’ll give you your own WiFi and hard wired connection. I did a video on them a couple of years ago. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aXam19KxkszWYrw.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZG2G3JaqmtzLYtY.html I hope that helps answer your question.

Any cheaper adapter?

i have a question. My house is build like this in your video with coax box where are the exits from all the rooms. Sooo.... what would be if i connect them all together, and i connect one end to the router antenna :D Would i be able to see the signal maybe then in all rooms?

@5PortStudios

Жыл бұрын

That should work for what you’re trying to do. Attach all of the coax you want to supply the signal to, to one splitter. Connect the Coax to Ethernet adapter’s coax into the splitter and all you’d have to do is have a converter in each room and connect the Ethernet from the adapter to your device. This will share the connection from the one adapter, but you should be good to go since it essentially is like a gigabit switch using coax instead of Ethernet.

@xxxARBiHxxx

Жыл бұрын

@@5PortStudios Thx for your reply. you gave me the answer based on the devices from the video clip. But I was thinking of something else. what if I connect one end of the coaxial cable to the WiFi output of the router, will I be able to see that wifi signal in the rooms? 😅

Will it work if there’s a splitter involved?

@leesahcage3297

Жыл бұрын

yes it will still work.

I need help. i am thinking about this product vut I need to know if I have to use it in pair. The thing is I live in a house of flats and the splitter box os on the basement, so in my flat there is coax only and I need to convert it to ethernet to install it in the router. So I would end up using only one of the pair. Will it work?

@TankSchu

Жыл бұрын

I’m planning on setting this up too, and in my research I know you need at minimum 2 adapters. One will be plugged into the coax and your router. The second, will be in the room where you want internet run to via coax and then converted to Ethernet.

@TankSchu

Жыл бұрын

Also, you will absolutely need a MoCA POE filter that will be inserted between the incoming coax to your flat and the first splitter. Basic layout, incoming coax -> POE filter -> 3-way splitter -> #1- modem; #2 MoCA adapter; #3 run to second room -> connect modem to router (if separate device), connect MoCA adapter to router (or modem if it’s an all-in-one device) -> coax run to 2nd room and connect to 2nd MoCA adapter -> MoCA adapter to device via ethernet The first splitter could be a 2-way, but then you’d need another 2-way splitter somewhere, anywhere, after the POE filter to connect to the second room.

I can’t just buy a cable that is a coax to Ethernet and hook the Ethernet to my ps5 and get an internet connection ?

what coax type are supported?

@5PortStudios

Жыл бұрын

So far, I've tried it with every random type that I have laying around. I know I've tested a rather long length of some older coax that was in a box of cables and wires that must be over 20-25 years old and then the newer coax too that I've acquired over the last couple of years. I didn't notice any difference between the two. I don't doubt there might be a little bit here and there, but I don't think it's anything noticeable unless it's all corroded or something.

What if modem isn’t where the co-ax cables converge?

@irahartoch1075

Жыл бұрын

See wmcomprev's comment and my response to him. You will be better off using MoCA adapters.

i can see the script in the reflection of your glasses

@5PortStudios

Жыл бұрын

🤣 now I can’t stop trying to see where you can see it. I keep catching glimpses of my huge lights reflecting the purple when I tilt my head up, I didn’t know you can see my teleprompter text too. Lol!

there are 2 very different connectors thats how

they should make them White color!!!

if you have a cable insdie a wall it takes 10 min to swap it to ehternet cable.

@bekrah5961

Жыл бұрын

5 minutes actually.

@catchnkill

Жыл бұрын

True. You may still want to have the subscribed cableTV service. And thus do not want to pull out the original coaxial cables within the walls and replace it with cat-6 cable.

@Dave102693

Жыл бұрын

@@catchnkill most people don’t watch cable like that anymore

@catchnkill

Жыл бұрын

@@Dave102693 True. It is sometimes not worth the effort to pull out the old coaxial cables within wall and thread new CAT-6 cables in. There is a unique market in U.S.. CableTV subscription rate is highest in US. In other places in the world, we do not have so many old houses with coaxial cables built-in.

I have 4 of the MoCa adapters. Yes, they do work well, but they're bulky with a power brick, and ugly.... as per my wife.

Made no sense. I need my coax for internet/Tv but you said cable can’t be used if TV transmitted. Therefore how does this device help me? It sounds Like a need dark coax and live coax in same room to generate wifi signal and then hard wire my backhaul between wifi mesh units.

@H.T.2forever

Жыл бұрын

Thus may help as I posted on the review of apparently these same adapters marketed under the "Nexuslink" brand name by the same author of this video. kzread.info/dash/bejne/noOVsNSHo8_Ik5M.html **Oh, and the reason these adapters failed to work with your CATV signals on the same coax. Is because their operating frequency bands overlap one another and thus mutually interfere with each other.** **As the **G.hn** wave 1 over coax standard operates between 5-100 MHz. And the wave 2 over coax is between 5-200 MHz.** **CATV typically uses between 5-42 MHz for upstream internet data. And between about 54 to possibly up to around 1000 MHz for both downstream internet data and cable TV signals.** ** you don't necessarily need an available "dark" coax cable to use these adapters. You must be careful to be sure their operating frequencies don't overlap (or come near to) with those of others on the same cable. Such as with my situation where they don't overlap with the DIRECTV satellite signals on my coax run.**

@GameCyborgCh

Жыл бұрын

@@H.T.2forever what really confuses me on Comtrends website they state that the adapters are not compatible with Cable TV annd Satellite TV in their FAQs only to then state 6 questions later that you can use the TV out coax port for CATV and satellite services. Is it or is it not compatible Comtrend?!?!

@H.T.2forever

Жыл бұрын

@GameCyborgCh ; Yes, the language is confusing.... Which is why the best approach is to just focus on the fact that the G.hn Wave 2 coax adapters require a 5-200 MHz band to be clear of any other services on the coax to operate. This then rules out CATV internet and TV or the VHF-lo band (and RF ch. 7-8) of OTA TV on the same coax as they would overlap into that band and naturally interfere with the operation of the adapters. And while I'm not sure about Dish Network, I know the adapters do work with DIRECTV satellite signals on the same coax. However, in a footnote to this, you can't use the internal diplexer built into the adapters to feed a satellite receiver as it blocks the 2.3 MHz SWiM control signal. So you must place a wideband (2-2300 MHz) splitter with DC continuity at least on one leg ahead of the adapter and feed the coax leg with DC cont. to the receiver and the other to the adapter. Then just cap-off the unused TV output ports of the adapters with 75 ohm terminating caps. ...

@GameCyborgCh

Жыл бұрын

@@H.T.2forever wow very detailed answer. So how would the wiring be then? I have a dual LNB one goes into the attic and one to the living room (and we also have a coax line which goes to another room but it's not terminated on either end but I would like to use it to connect to there aswell). Do I cut the coax where it comes into the house, connect one line to a 1-to-3 splitter, connect those 3 rooms to said splitter, put a G.Hn adapter in each room but cap the tv out with a terminating cap and in the rooms i want to have tv in I put a 1-to-2 splitter before the input on the adapter? Or do I require a multi switch of which I could only connect to 2 of the 4 satellite inputs (i can't find any that have just 2 inputs)? edit: we have DVB-S2 which uses 14V to select vertical polarization and 18V to select horizontal polarization, and if a receiver is putting on a 22kHz signal on the coax it will get the high band instead of the low band

@H.T.2forever

Жыл бұрын

@@GameCyborgCh ; Well you're going to really need to upgrade your satellite installation to SWiM first. Before you can use these adapters to distribute throughout the house. ... As they won't work on legacy installs with multi-line LNBs and multi-switches controlled by tone/voltage signaling from receivers.

You don’t…

I DONT NEED THIS COAXIAL CABLE I WANT MEDIA CONVERTER FOR FIBER

@maxobsidian6313

Жыл бұрын

that shit so easy to install, its like pluging power cable

Moca adapters are not reliable. I tried this. Get a mesh network instead. I can connect via ethernet and get amazing speeds.

Better hope your modenm isn't Docs 2.0 because this won't work if it is. Follow me for more IT Tips.