MoCa, connected, but TV cut's out

[dbailey75]

Ok, I have the dlink moca devices, connected one unit behind a 2.3GHz splitter, one end going to comcast box, other going to dlink. did the same thing in another room. they link, up, speeds are good, very good, but at first one tv (cable box) would not pickup the cable single, no tv. ok, I fiddled around and removed the spliter on that TV, and ran the cable box from the pass through, and that seemed to work.

Few hours later, the other tv was not getting a signal from the cable box. Turn the switch from moca to config, tv signal is back, Ok, removed the splittler here, ran the coax from the moca to the cable box, still no dice when the moca's are connected. What gives, the moca's are killing my TV.


set us is easy, I have two spliters outside the house, one two way, and then a 3 way, but are rated up to 1Ghz (should moca even be working), There's got to be one more splittler in a wall some where, I have idea were it is.


I currently have the channels set to 27, after trying different things.

any idea's?

Edit: Ok tv is now working again, very strange, will report back later. I'm very impressed with the speeds of the moca, just using windows copy, I'm getting 8-9 Mbs/s transfer speeds, which is what I was getting before upgrading to GB Lan. Running hybird, cat5e, and Moca, if I can figure out the Tv issue, this should fix my video streaming issues where wireless was just not cutting it.

Ok, still having some interference, some channels work, while some are showing digital artifacts, and some don't work at all. I'd try a diplexer and see that can help, I would guess I'm some sort of interference from the Moca.

As an FYI as I've noticed the Dlinks are hard to find, Got the kit at frys for $130, sitting right next to the netgears listed for $199.

 

[dbailey75]

Resolved

Ok, well the wife reminded me on the tv that was giving us trouble that she had had similar interference issues a few months ago, with the artifacts, and lack of a TV signal, replaced the cable coming from the wall to the serge protector, as that one seemed to be the problem, ok, that seemed to solve the problem, tv signal good, coax connected, freaking awesome, reset the moca's back to their default settings, everything is working great. But I'm still confused about the my splitters, they are only rated up to 1 ghz, and everything works fine, I was thinking about replacing them, but you know, if its not broke, don't fix it.

 

[thiggins]

If everything is working to your satisfaction, leave things alone. The lower splitter bandwidth just means higher signal attenuation. But apparently, you have enough signal for satisfactory operation.

 

[dbailey75]

If everything is working to your satisfaction, leave things alone. The lower splitter bandwidth just means higher signal attenuation. But apparently, you have enough signal for satisfactory operation.

Tim, thanks for checking out my posts, your article on the moca's sold me. So far so good. much easier than fishing cat5 through the walls.