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Hi All,
Reposting here to see if I can get some help...thanks!
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MOCA with Amplifiers on line - no choice?
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Thanks to all for the many helpful posts.
I have a vexing issue that results from my cable setup and want to see if there are any options out there now to solve it.
Here's the deal: I have Comcast cable feeding a single coax into my basement. From there, it's split it into cable internet via a modem, and cable TV beginning with a powered amplifier, which includes a four way splitter box from which goes a bunch of TV cables all over the house. Performance on all of these has been ok until Comcast's digital "upgrade" (a topic for another thread...)
Anyway, several other lines (Cat5) lead throughout my house from the modem via a wired router, VOIP to Vonage, a switch, then later down the line, a hub, more switches, etc. and all works great from a speed and throughput standpoint. Amazing and has been for 10 years, even as we've added and dropped boxes and computers along the way, with only the occasional reset needed when reconfiguring and when Comcast service went out.
Enter MoCA: I wanted to use Netgear's new MoCA boxes (already purchased, of course) connecting over coax to my main living room TV and PS3 to stream video, store and stream pictures, get the internet to the main floor from the basement (believe it or not, we never put Cat5 cabling there - stupid!), and if possible, set up a wireless router with better broadcast quality from that point, and/or maybe use a second router as a bridge. Bottom line, the connection via currently installed coax to my TV doesn't work no matter what I and my very technically inclined buddy have tried.
It's the amplifier used for cable. That's pretty clear, as with one, all my TV's work, and without it, they don't. I followed the in-order setup directions, but even if I put my "old" amp only on a split line off the direct cable line to my TV in the LR, then there still isn't strong enough of a signal to drive the STB in that room. If I put the amp in the mix, MOCA won't get a coax light and no internet to the living room. As an update to this earlier post, I bought a bi-directional amplifier for my cable from Radio Shack, still no coax light on the Netgear MoCA box...
I knew going in that amps on cable might cause problems, thus have tried to configure the system through the software, and now through different wiring/splitters, etc., plus searched exhaustively for the right amplifier, knowing that Netgear points out amplifiers can't be used between nodes (unless they bypass the MoCA frequencies), but I MUST have an amplifier to power all these TV cable runs, and my MoCA is along one of these runs. That's why I picked up the Radio Shack bi-directional amp a few days ago. Still no luck. Best of all (not) Comcast techs (I've talked to several) don't even know what MoCA is, though they are a key sponsor of the alliance!!!
Please, before I throw these things back 'cause I want to love them...what can I do? Anybody else have this problem and solve it?
Oh I wish I was a coax network streamer...that is what I truly want to be...
Reposting here to see if I can get some help...thanks!
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MOCA with Amplifiers on line - no choice?
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Thanks to all for the many helpful posts.
I have a vexing issue that results from my cable setup and want to see if there are any options out there now to solve it.
Here's the deal: I have Comcast cable feeding a single coax into my basement. From there, it's split it into cable internet via a modem, and cable TV beginning with a powered amplifier, which includes a four way splitter box from which goes a bunch of TV cables all over the house. Performance on all of these has been ok until Comcast's digital "upgrade" (a topic for another thread...)
Anyway, several other lines (Cat5) lead throughout my house from the modem via a wired router, VOIP to Vonage, a switch, then later down the line, a hub, more switches, etc. and all works great from a speed and throughput standpoint. Amazing and has been for 10 years, even as we've added and dropped boxes and computers along the way, with only the occasional reset needed when reconfiguring and when Comcast service went out.
Enter MoCA: I wanted to use Netgear's new MoCA boxes (already purchased, of course) connecting over coax to my main living room TV and PS3 to stream video, store and stream pictures, get the internet to the main floor from the basement (believe it or not, we never put Cat5 cabling there - stupid!), and if possible, set up a wireless router with better broadcast quality from that point, and/or maybe use a second router as a bridge. Bottom line, the connection via currently installed coax to my TV doesn't work no matter what I and my very technically inclined buddy have tried.
It's the amplifier used for cable. That's pretty clear, as with one, all my TV's work, and without it, they don't. I followed the in-order setup directions, but even if I put my "old" amp only on a split line off the direct cable line to my TV in the LR, then there still isn't strong enough of a signal to drive the STB in that room. If I put the amp in the mix, MOCA won't get a coax light and no internet to the living room. As an update to this earlier post, I bought a bi-directional amplifier for my cable from Radio Shack, still no coax light on the Netgear MoCA box...
I knew going in that amps on cable might cause problems, thus have tried to configure the system through the software, and now through different wiring/splitters, etc., plus searched exhaustively for the right amplifier, knowing that Netgear points out amplifiers can't be used between nodes (unless they bypass the MoCA frequencies), but I MUST have an amplifier to power all these TV cable runs, and my MoCA is along one of these runs. That's why I picked up the Radio Shack bi-directional amp a few days ago. Still no luck. Best of all (not) Comcast techs (I've talked to several) don't even know what MoCA is, though they are a key sponsor of the alliance!!!
Please, before I throw these things back 'cause I want to love them...what can I do? Anybody else have this problem and solve it?
Oh I wish I was a coax network streamer...that is what I truly want to be...