Has anyone reading this thread had experience connecting an MoCA system through a distributed tap off type home Cable wiring arrangement? I am moving into an apartment that has eight Cable Outlets. There is no 8 port splitter with home run cables to each outlet. There are two RG-6 Cables coming out of a two gang electrical box in the laundry room. One cable comes from the Cable Companies terminal in the building utility room and is connected to the input of a 15 dB CATV Amplifier in the laundry room. The other cable is connected to the output of the amplifier and supplies signal to all cable outlets in the apartment thru tap offs. Power is supplied to the amplifier through a power adapter connected to a nearby AC Outlet. The signal passes through 7 tap offs, each rated at 1200MHz, one tap off, at each outlet with the thru output of tap off #7 fed directly to the last outlet. For example the loss value for the tap off closest to the amplifier might be 12 dB to the outlet while the thru loss might be 0.5 dB. The tap value for outlet #7 might be 4 dB. The loss value of each tap off is lower at each outlet. The objective is to maintain the signal strength at each outlet at 0 dBMV. EDIT: I intend to connect the cable from the Cable Companies terminal, in the buildings utility room, to a two port splitter, with one port connected to an MoCA filter at the input of the line amplifier and the other port to a cable modem. I plan on installing an ActionTec ECB2500C with the connector that normally is connected to the television to the output of the amplifier. The connector of the ECB2500C that normally is connected to the cable outlet will be connected to the cable feeding all outlets in the apartment. The question is should this configuration work?
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