Cat6 or RG6 From Modem to MoCA Bridge?

[seasons]

Hi,
I am setting up a MoCA network for our TiVo Roamio Plus (MoCA built-in) located on the opposite end of the house from the office or living room and would like some advice on which type of cable to buy.

Our internet modem (Actiontec H000LA with Gigabit ethernet ports) is in the home office, about 25 feet away from the nearest coax drop.

I need to connect the modem to the MoCA bridge and there's two ways I can do it.

1. I can either put the MoCA bridge in the office, connect the bridge to the modem with an ethernet cable and run 50 feet of RG6 Coax to the living room and couple it to the existing coax coming up through the floor from the basement... OR

2. I can put the MoCA bridge in the living room, connect the coax line to the bridge and then run 50 feet of Cat6 from the MoCA bridge to the internet modem in the office.

{It would be a 50 foot cable because I would run it up to, across the ceiling, down the wall and into the living room. }

My question is, which is faster? Cat6 or RG6?
The price is about the same for each, so that's not a factor.
I've read several threads in lots of forums about Cat6 vs RG6 and the responses include everything. Choose Cat6 over RG6, Choose RG6 over Cat6 and it doesn't matter.

I'd rather not buy both and test.

Any input is appreciated.

 

[CaptainSTX]

Is your Actiontec device the router provided by FIOS? If yes it probably has MOCA built in.

If not use Ethernet as it will have greater bandwidth, but either type of cable will have more bandwidth than you can utilize in your application.

 

[seasons]

Thanks for the reply CaptainSTX. My router does not have MoCA built in. We do have fiber internet, but it's not a major carrier like Verizon/FIOS. One of my first calls was to my ISP to see if the modem/router had MoCA, but unfortunately it does not. Well, what their tech department told me is it's not configured for it and I may be able to configure the router for it, but they didn't know.

I dug into information on that router a bit and from what I could decipher, it seems more like it could be configured for Powerline. I'm new to this stuff, so not really sure. Even if it could be configured for MoCA, I wouldn't know how to do it. If anyone knows whether this Actiontec modem can be configured for MoCA, that would be great to know too.

The internet signal comes into the modem in a WAN port. There is an HPNA connector that looks like a coax connector, but it's not used.

Nonetheless, I would still have the issue of needing to connect the modem to the coax that is 25 feet away.

Yes, sadly my 300+Mbps internet speed is wasted on a MoCA 1.1 device. 100Mbps is so slow, but I searched online for hours trying to find a MoCA 2.0 bridge/adapter being sold to consumers, but with no luck. The only ones I could find are only being sold to ISPs and Cable companies.

MoCA 1.1 tops out at 175Mbps, but that's still faster than 100Mbps. Hopefully Tivo will upgrade their firmware to MoCA 2.0 at some point. But regardless of Tivo, when I can finally buy a MoCA 2.0 bridge, I could use it to bridge the MoCA 2.0 to the 1 Gigbit port on the tivo and/or bring faster internet speeds to other devices in the room.

As for the 50 foot cable question, I wasn't even sure if it would make a difference if I used cat6 or coax since once it's connected to the MoCA bridge, the signal is going to be running on the coax anyway.