Will this MoCA setup work?

[scottyja]

I've posted before on other threads about using MoCA for my home. I've drawn up a diagram of what I had in mind, and I'd love to get some feedback on if it will work the way it's diagrammed and how I can make it better.

This is what I have so far:



My main concern is all the diagrams I've seen with MoCA have the main cable line coming into a splitter and then dividing out to the different MoCA devices. In my case, the main cable line is internet only (no CATV), and it comes in directly to office. I only want MoCA to network my 3 main locations.

Any thoughts on how I could improve this?

 

[stevech]

that 3-way splitter... I believe that a commonplace CATV splitter won't work. The three inputs won't propagate to the other input ports.

I think you have to find a thing called a power divider, and it won't be as common as a splitter.

It was my experience with commonplace splitters - when I tried to take the signal from a TV modulator and feed it into a splitter's output port, hoping it would distribute around the house. Diagrams I found on how to send a modulator's signal showed a two-input thing, a combiner or some such, with multiple outputs, and/or it was a multi-input amplifier/combiner.

But it's easy enough to try. It will work, I think, with the right RF combiner scheme.

here's the idea... inserting an RF signal from a modulator inside a camera. This would be akin to inserting signals from MoCA devices.

http://www.summitsource.com/product_info.php?ref=1&products_id=9099

I may be wrong on all of this - as MoCA is used every day with taps and splitters.

 

[RogerSC]

that 3-way splitter... I believe that a commonplace CATV splitter won't work. The three inputs won't propagate to the other input ports.

I think you have to find a thing called a power divider, and it won't be as common as a splitter.

It was my experience with commonplace splitters - when I tried to take the signal from a TV modulator and feed it into a splitter's output port, hoping it would distribute around the house. Diagrams I found on how to send a modulator's signal showed a two-input thing, a combiner or some such, with multiple outputs, and/or it was a multi-input amplifier/combiner.

But it's easy enough to try. It will work, I think, with the right RF combiner scheme.

here's the idea... inserting an RF signal from a modulator inside a camera. This would be akin to inserting signals from MoCA devices.

http://www.summitsource.com/product_info.php?ref=1&products_id=9099

I may be wrong on all of this - as MoCA is used every day with taps and splitters.

Not sure about that...we have a plain vanilla 5-way splitter at our cable entry point to our house, and everything sees everything else for the 3 MoCA adapters that I'm currently using. Each MoCA cable branch is on a different branch off the outside splitter. Might be worth a try.