Hpna man

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Newbie, sorry if this is a dead-horse subject. I have a coworker who swears you can run HPNA over Charter / Comcast, etc long distances (like a point-to-point) up to 320Mbps without Charter knowing. Plainly put, he thinks coax + HPNA means a super long ethernet cable that cannot be detected. Also add to that, he says no provisioned services have to be in place to make this work, rather, as long as there is physically connected HPNA, you can run PTP HPNA networks all over the nation without paying a dime given there is connected physical coax from one location to the other.

I fail to find the truth in this. Does someone mind explaining any truth in this? More than happy to be wrong here as I could definitely use it if it does exist.

Thanks

 

[jdabbs]

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." The burden of proof is on him to demonstrate that this can be done.

Some quick Google-fu indicates that HNPA doesn't play well with DOCSIS (what cable networks use) and a maximum distance of 5000 ft.

 

[stevech]

without serious hardware hacking, how would one get HPNA's carrier signals onto coax (and power the device) ?

Both HPNA and MoCA are OFDM signals at high RF frequencies - so getting this on/off various media is fairly simple in concept, but hard to do in reality due to impedance matching, signal-on-power (HPNA), and so on.

Then too, there (used to be) a product to put WiFi's RF signal on home TV coax to distribute. Great idea I thought, since WiFi is intended to have 60dB or more of loss between sender and receiver, and TV coax/splitters would be far less. And though a given splitter may not be rated for above 1GHz, the attenuation out to 2.4GHz is likely OK. Same for RG6 at 2.4GHz - lossy but plenty of excess signal. This is because WiFi begins with, say, 50mW and orders of magnitude less is needed by the receiver. Alas, this product didn't seem to catch on.