Tisbury
New Around Here
Hello all, first time poster here as I'm relatively new (yet fairly tech savvy) at this networking thing.
My family recently moved to Kansas City and our new home was built in 1998. There is existing coax run through the entire house, but nothing else. The basement is unfinished so I purchased 500ft of Cat6 and ran it through the basement into certain areas of the main floor, but I have no desire to learn how to wall fish to the second story so I decided to try MoCA out. After some research I decided to go with ActionTech adapters and called them before ordering to find out exactly what I needed. The representative there told me I would need three: one for the modem in the basement, and one for each coax jack I'm wanting to use upstairs.
So I ordered three of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013J7O3X0/?tag=snbforums-20
Per ActionTech, I was to run the coax line from outside into their splitter, then coax into the adapter, then coax into the modem, then Cat6 from the modem to the adapter as well. Tried that, went upstairs to a coax and plugged in a second adapter, then Cat6 into my computer, nothing. Tested the adapters per their troubleshooting, both work fine. Took off the wall plates, coax is connected fine.
Spoke to a networking guy and he said the ActionTech rep is an idiot and I should connect the adapter directly to my router and then run coax into the wall there. Tried that, nothing.
I have two Netgear Nighthawk routers running. An R8000 wired to the modem and an R7000 wired to the first router and properly setup as an AP. I don't know what's going on with this house, but the wifi signal is horrid upstairs where both of my children have their computers, and I have my office.
My Modem is an Arris Surfboard SB8200
I don't know what to do, but I feel like I'm losing my mind.
My family recently moved to Kansas City and our new home was built in 1998. There is existing coax run through the entire house, but nothing else. The basement is unfinished so I purchased 500ft of Cat6 and ran it through the basement into certain areas of the main floor, but I have no desire to learn how to wall fish to the second story so I decided to try MoCA out. After some research I decided to go with ActionTech adapters and called them before ordering to find out exactly what I needed. The representative there told me I would need three: one for the modem in the basement, and one for each coax jack I'm wanting to use upstairs.
So I ordered three of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013J7O3X0/?tag=snbforums-20
Per ActionTech, I was to run the coax line from outside into their splitter, then coax into the adapter, then coax into the modem, then Cat6 from the modem to the adapter as well. Tried that, went upstairs to a coax and plugged in a second adapter, then Cat6 into my computer, nothing. Tested the adapters per their troubleshooting, both work fine. Took off the wall plates, coax is connected fine.
Spoke to a networking guy and he said the ActionTech rep is an idiot and I should connect the adapter directly to my router and then run coax into the wall there. Tried that, nothing.
I have two Netgear Nighthawk routers running. An R8000 wired to the modem and an R7000 wired to the first router and properly setup as an AP. I don't know what's going on with this house, but the wifi signal is horrid upstairs where both of my children have their computers, and I have my office.
My Modem is an Arris Surfboard SB8200
I don't know what to do, but I feel like I'm losing my mind.
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