I have two XT8s and a mandatory router provided by my ISP (Verizon 5G). I connected the two XT8s in AP mode, with wireless backhaul.
I've been frustrated with the wireless backhaul performance and wanted a real hardwire backhaul. Since my house is not wired for ethernet, I opted for MoCA 2.5G to give me a hardwire ethernet connection using the Coax in my house (since it isn't being used for anything else - no TV or internet over Coax). The way the router is placed and where I want my nodes, I have the APs plugged into the router's two ethernet ports. So my network topology looks like this...
AP Node 2 (WAN port) <=== MoCA --coax-- MoCA <== Router ==> AP Node 1 (WAN port, static IP)
I tried to turn on the ethernet backhaul and it won't turn on, saying AP Node 2 isn't on ethernet. But I have the ethernet from the MoCA adapter plugged into the WAN port.
I have verified that the MoCA adapters work - using a laptop with an ethernet port to plug directly into where AP Node 2 was, I can get an IP and speedtest maxing out at the provisioned speed of the modem.
Do the AP nodes have to be daisy-chained directly, or can I hang them both off the router? My next step is to buy a 35' ethernet cable to try plugging in the MoCA adapter to one of the LAN ports in on AP Node 1 but I wanted to check before I spend the money (I had already bought a 20' ethernet cable for the run from the router to the MoCA adapter, now I need to get an even longer cable).
I've been frustrated with the wireless backhaul performance and wanted a real hardwire backhaul. Since my house is not wired for ethernet, I opted for MoCA 2.5G to give me a hardwire ethernet connection using the Coax in my house (since it isn't being used for anything else - no TV or internet over Coax). The way the router is placed and where I want my nodes, I have the APs plugged into the router's two ethernet ports. So my network topology looks like this...
AP Node 2 (WAN port) <=== MoCA --coax-- MoCA <== Router ==> AP Node 1 (WAN port, static IP)
I tried to turn on the ethernet backhaul and it won't turn on, saying AP Node 2 isn't on ethernet. But I have the ethernet from the MoCA adapter plugged into the WAN port.
I have verified that the MoCA adapters work - using a laptop with an ethernet port to plug directly into where AP Node 2 was, I can get an IP and speedtest maxing out at the provisioned speed of the modem.
Do the AP nodes have to be daisy-chained directly, or can I hang them both off the router? My next step is to buy a 35' ethernet cable to try plugging in the MoCA adapter to one of the LAN ports in on AP Node 1 but I wanted to check before I spend the money (I had already bought a 20' ethernet cable for the run from the router to the MoCA adapter, now I need to get an even longer cable).