A MoCA speed comment

[stevech]

Just informal, FYI

Just did a backup drive image on my HTPC (AMD350 mini-ITX). It's in a room with no cat5. Copied that 22GB file to my NAS via MoCA to gigE LAN to NAS.

Per windows 7 on the HTPC, the speed was 9.4MB/sec for that long transfer. Multiply by 8 you get 78.4Mbps - the MoCA's net speed for one thread's transfer. The actual speed is probably 15% higher than Windows says, because Windows doesn't reflect the TCP/IP overhead in the byte stream.

No doubt, the 78.4Mbps is much less than could be if there were 3 or so concurrent streams going, due to Windows overhead in the file systems and SMB.

Lots better than typical HomePlug (AC wiring as transport media), especially since it varies quite a bit according to what's plugged in today, and where.

But, just an observation.

(MBps = megaBytes/sec; Mbps = megabits/sec; big "B")

 

[KenAF]

I have two MoCA 1.1-based Actiontec MI-424WR Rev. I routers bridged over coax. This MoCA router has gigabit wan and ethernet ports. I see 135-140Mbps usable (17.0-17.5 MBps) in each direction with a single client over MoCA.

 

[devnull]

Working really nicely for me here. I have a moca network set up at my parent's house. Connecting two Xbox 360's (one in front room, one in living room) and my dad's PC to the cable modem upstairs. When I upgraded my dad's PC a few weeks back, I set up his old PC upstairs (actually I made an image of the hard drive and ran it as a VM on the household server) and had him copy his files over the network.

It achieved 11.3 MB/s while copying the larger files.

Using 3 Motorola NIM100s for the clients and an MI424WR Rev. F at the cable modem. Even though they're Moca 1.0, I really like the NIM100s because they look like cable TV boxes and not like computer equipment. In fact they look exactly like the Motorola cable boxes provided by our cable service.

 

[RogerSC]

Very happy with MoCA here, too. Much more reliable and capable for media streaming than the wireless ever was *smile*, and don't need to add wires in the walls. That nice double-shielded cable is already in the walls. Using the Netgear MoCA endpoints, painless installation.

Highly recommended, been using for some time here. I'd like to see the 2.0 stuff coming along, but don't really need the extra speed at this time. However, I'm sure that the future will provide opportunities for wider bandwidth streaming, and it would be nice to see it being worked on.