Actiontec ECB6200

[rpmartinez1987]

I recently found a great offer for four Actiontec ECB6200s. My current internet speed is 600Mbps and honestly might reduce it to 300Mbps.
Should I buy the ECB6200? or go for something newer?

 

[degrub]

no

 

[rpmartinez1987]

no

Thanks but is there particular reason why?

 

[degrub]

ecb6200 as bonded pair is more bandwidth than you are planning.

 

[rpmartinez1987]

ecb6200 as bonded pair is more bandwidth than you are planning.

Oh okay, I took your No as saying not to buy the ECB6200.
But you're saying not to buy something newer and pick up the ECB6200, right?

 

[degrub]

if you are going to 300 mbit isp, no reason to go higher
if may go to gbit, the use gocoax moca2.5

 

[rpmartinez1987]

Okay thank you.

 

[krkaufman]

I recently found a great offer for four Actiontec ECB6200s. My current internet speed is 600Mbps and honestly might reduce it to 300Mbps.
Should I buy the ECB6200? or go for something newer?

Kinda tough to say sans pricing.

As for the speed of the ECB6200's, I'd assume that you're planning on installing at least a 3 node setup, so max shared throughput for the 3+ node bonded MoCA 2.0 network would be 800 Mbps. That's 800 Mbps shared between the forward and backward paths for each active connection; if you won't have much competition for throughput, it should be fine. (But, again, go/no-go would still depend on the price, I'd think.)

For comparison, a support-less Frontier FCA252 MoCA 2.5 adapter with 2.5 GbE network port can be had for $30 per via eBay.


edit: Related info:

• throughput by MoCA spec
• MoCA adapters, grouped by throughput
  ---
• MoCA topology choices:
  • MoCA AP+client vs dedicated pairs
  • splitter input-fed vs all outputs

 

[rpmartinez1987]

Kinda tough to say sans pricing.

As for the speed of the ECB6200's, I'd assume that you're planning on installing at least a 3 node setup, so max shared throughput for the 3+ node bonded MoCA 2.0 network would be 800 Mbps. That's 800 Mbps shared between the forward and backward paths for each active connection; if you won't have much competition for throughput, it should be fine. (But, again, go/no-go would still depend on the price, I'd think.)

For comparison, a support-less Frontier FCA252 MoCA 2.5 adapter with 2.5 GbE network port can be had for $30 per via eBay.


edit: Related info:

• throughput by MoCA spec
• MoCA adapters, grouped by throughput
  ---
• MoCA topology choices:
  • MoCA AP+client vs dedicated pairs
  • splitter input-fed vs all outputs

I bought them for about $26 each. Looks like we’re going to keep the 600Mbps/30 Mbps. It’s too late to return them. Should I cut my losses and purchase the frontiers you mentioned?

I don’t think I mentioned it before but I bought four of the ECB 6200 H/W: 2C MoCA nodes and may need to buy two more nodes and not sure if I should buy the same model again off eBay or just buy all frontier 2.5 since they’re similar price.