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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    No antenna here... the house is getting digital CATV from a jerkoff cable co. that requires STBs in front of every TV to decrypt the channels. So HDHomeRuns are useless. And, worth mentioning, this is my parents' house and they are baby boomers and love their TV, so even partial cord-cutting...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    I can't find any amp splitters that support MOCA 2.0 frequencies, so that's not great. But I guess I can put an amplifier on the main line before anything else happens. Then, this is the best/simplest way I can think to set it up: Then I could get, say, a 3-unit Eero system. One unit as...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    Digital cable... and I'm pretty sure that the cable modem and main living room TV are both attached to a 2-way splitter at the coax port in the living room. Which would mean that, after the -9db 6-way splitter, they must both be suffering a cumulative -12.5db, not including loss from a...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    Okay. If I could simply add the MOCA adapters and the modem/router in any rooms with a coax port, without regard to "upstream" or "downstream," then that would make this all a LOT easier. Another question: that 6-port splitter will have to be replaced, as I mentioned earlier. (There is no...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    This is the part I don't quite get. I don't know what coax cable goes to the location where I want the AP. There is coax cable running into every room; but I don't think one runs to another, rather, it seems like they all run individually to the "main trunk" i.e. the coax line from the street...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    Okay, sorry to spam, but if I have identified the main cable feed into the house, should I just tap that one? I found this diagram... maybe I could put a POE filter and then a MOCA-compatible splitter on the main line, then add the cable modem and router and MOCA adapter along one half of the...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    Yes - this is my initial noob idea (or, at least it sounds noobish to my own noobish ears). A physically separate coax network completely downstream of my router. But my issue is, whenever I see people describe these things they start with "ethernet from router" and completely gloss over how...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    I guess I don't understand how MOCA works at a basic level. Does the signal run bi-directionally? I think I've seen some diagrams where people put a splitter on an end-point coax cable and run one line to a cable modem, which sends ethernet to a router, which sends ethernet to a MOCA adapter...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    I'm not sure what grade wires they are... but it doesn't really matter, they are what they are and it's all we've got available if we aren't ripping out wiring. They were installed with the house in the mid/late 90s when it was built, to provide cable TV in every room. My parents now have TVs...
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    Alternative: coax | modem | cat6 | wireless router (A) -- cat6 -- moca -- coax -- moca -- cat6 -- AP (C) | cat6 | moca | coax | moca | cat6 | AP (B)
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    not sure I 100% understand MOCA

    Does it just extend ethernet? I'm planning to set up a network in a house that is sort of shaped like a big 'L.' It has been challenging to get good wifi coverage (admittedly, with last-gen 802.11n hardware). I just realized that most rooms in the house are wired with coax, and only a couple...
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    opportunity to build home wifi network form scratch - advice?

    So one setup I'm considering is: a Unifi AC Pro at the front/center/ground floor of the house, where the router is, mounted high up on the front wall facing in, so it bathes the front of the house with signal on both stories. (3x3 AC near the TV... I was thinking of running a wire to my 4th-gen...
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    opportunity to build home wifi network form scratch - advice?

    Whoa. I hadn't seen that. That looks incredible. A bit expensive - $99 apiece - and "sold out" at the Ubiquiti site. It's a bit spendy but for ~$800 I could put one in each room, plus an outdoor model for the backyard. I wonder if they'll be available by September... Amazon has the older...
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    opportunity to build home wifi network form scratch - advice?

    Interesting, I was just going to ask about the Lite's non-standard PoE thing. I guess the injector means that I can tie in to a power line, either behind the wall or just plugging into an outlet? But now that the Lite is 802.3af compatible, does that mean I can skip the injectors and just plug...
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    opportunity to build home wifi network form scratch - advice?

    Hmm, maybe the Unifi AC-Lite is the right product? Looks like it is dual-band and gigabit-capable for throughput... I don't fully understand what distinguishes the Pro. This is one of the issues with Unifi, it's not the easiest to shop for, as a consumer. As far as money: I'd spend the ~$400...
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