Pinotphile
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I just purchased a pair of Actiontec Moca 1.1 adapters (WCB3000N01) in order to provide a wired connection to an upstairs room. I have 150 Mbps Internet service, and when I do a test at speedtest.net I get around 170 Mbps download speed pretty consistently. After hooking up the adapters I did a test at the upstairs adapter and got download speeds in the low 30's. That's certainly good enough for most applications, but with Moca 1.1 advertised as providing up to 170 Mbps (I know, marketing-speak), I thought I would at least get up near 100 Mbps if not a little over.
My first thought was that it was due to the fact that my coax run to upstairs is pretty long, or maybe the cable is slightly flawed. So I brought the upstairs adapter downstairs and hooked it up directly to the other one using the coax cable that came with one of the adapters. I plugged into an Ethernet port of the adapter on the other side of the coax connection, ran a few tests at speedtest.net, and got download speeds in the low - mid 30's, pretty much the same as with the long coax run. I know that technically I should measure the speed directly between the two devices instead of from the Internet, but given that my Internet connection obviously isn't the bottleneck, I think it was a valid test.
I've seen other people post on various forums that they're getting better results, so I'm puzzled as to why I'm not. Any ideas?
Edit: I think at least one of the MoCA 1.1 adapters (WCB3000N01) was defective. I got better results using my old MoCA 1.0 adapters. I ended up buying a pair of new Actiontec MoCA 2.0 adapters, which work very well. See my follow-up post further down.
My first thought was that it was due to the fact that my coax run to upstairs is pretty long, or maybe the cable is slightly flawed. So I brought the upstairs adapter downstairs and hooked it up directly to the other one using the coax cable that came with one of the adapters. I plugged into an Ethernet port of the adapter on the other side of the coax connection, ran a few tests at speedtest.net, and got download speeds in the low - mid 30's, pretty much the same as with the long coax run. I know that technically I should measure the speed directly between the two devices instead of from the Internet, but given that my Internet connection obviously isn't the bottleneck, I think it was a valid test.
I've seen other people post on various forums that they're getting better results, so I'm puzzled as to why I'm not. Any ideas?
Edit: I think at least one of the MoCA 1.1 adapters (WCB3000N01) was defective. I got better results using my old MoCA 1.0 adapters. I ended up buying a pair of new Actiontec MoCA 2.0 adapters, which work very well. See my follow-up post further down.
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