There are at least two MoCA 1.1 devices with gigabit Ethernet ports -- Actiontec MI-424WR revisions G and I. All prior versions of the MI-424WR have 100Mbps ports. With MI-424WR revisions I and G, usable MoCA throughput is 18 megabytes per second (equivalent to ~150Mbps) through the gigabit ports, up from 9-10 megabytes per second on the earlier revisions with 100Mbps ports.Those are Fast Ethernet only. Doing more reading, supposedly MoCA 1.1 has 170Mbps net yield...though I don't know that you'd ever see that. With my ECB2500 I can get around 90Mbps payload, probably close to 100Mbps net yield when you factor in overhead.
The only way the ECB3500 could get anything like 170Mbps net is if there were multiple sources hitting it, as each ethernet port is limited to 100Mbps max. Of course, that just might happen and nice to know that MoCA actually should be able to do closer to 170Mbps.
In theory. I wonder what it can really do in practice and how much of the 170Mbps is L2 overhead on coax (Wireless has around 40% L2 overhead for error correction and stuff. I'd assume powerline is pretty similar...plus that is a damned noisy environment. I'd think with Coax being quieter L2 overhead might be substantially less as there wouldn't need to be as much error correction, nor retransmits).
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