MoCA Wiring Questions

[crpeck]

I have a rather interesting wiring situation. My COAX comes in from the CableCo, where I split it - one feed to the cable modem, another feed to a 4 way splitter which feeds my other rooms. I also have an unused RG-6 cable going from my office to the part of the house that I wanted to run the MoCA over. My plan was to connect one MoCA unit to the ethernet switch (which is connected to my router) and one end of the unused RG6 cable, then connect the other MoCA unit to the other end of the same RG6 cable and connect it to a switch where I have my AV devices (Roku, MediaCenter Extender, BluRay player, etc).

Will this work ok? All the docs I've seen show the MoCA connected to the cable as it enters, then a coax to the Cable Modem. I really don't see any reason to do that, but, I really don't have much of a grip on how MoCA works.

Thanks

 

[thiggins]

Should work just fine. There is no need to have a cable signal on the coax that MoCA is using.

 

[crpeck]

Thanks, I went ahead and wired it into the cable chain anyways, it was much easier to do that. The directions indicated that I should put it in between the cable modem & service provider, which made no sense to me (perhaps those directions are geared to the provider engineers). It's was a breeze to setup and is working great!