ScreenBeam Bonded MoCA 2.0 Network Adapter for High Speed Internet, Ethernet Over Coax - Single Add-On Adapter for Existing MoCA Network

These really work well to create wired network speed and reliability utilizing existing physical plant. Our two-story house was built in the mid-nineties. I'm assuming many 1970's to 1990's, multi-story houses are in a similar situation; so I will describe in detail below. As in many houses from that era it has lots of cable jacks (like 1-2 in almost every room). Most are on RG-59 wiring and a few newer ones are on RG-6 wiring. Since the house is two story, getting WIFI to propagate through multiple walls, ceilings, and floors is difficult. We are also at the top of a hill and pick up lots of interference from our neighbors' WIFI routers. Plus the total number of WIFI clients these days limits throughput making WIFI okay for low-bandwidth applications (like smart home devices) but poor for streaming devices. Also, running new wires is basically impossible in rooms that have rooms above them as the plenum is too narrow to crawl (about 6" tall). The mid-90's phone network is pre-Ethernet and as such is a hub network on cheap phone wire not a star network on Cat3 or Cat5 like many newer homes. Basically this meant we had three choices: 1.) use wireless only, 2.) find a way to use existing wiring, 3.) cut open walls to run Cat7. Option 1: WIFI works for low-bandwidth devices, but with so many devices these days (easily about 50 for a smart home) the throughput is very limited. We decided to keep WIFI for portable devices and low bandwidth requirement devices, but go with something else for our streaming devices. Option2: Using the existing wiring to create an Ethernet seems like the best option. I decided to make this happen one way or another. The house had lots of coax and quite a few phone jacks too. I researched options. Phone is limited to VDSL adapters. The problem with these are they are just point to point. So you get one connection and that is it. I wanted to connect all my major streaming point (office computer, game room TV, living room TV, and bedroom TV). So VDSL was a no go. I discovered both MOCA and DECA. DECA is much cheaper, but won't interoperatre with cable. We use a cable modem, which would have meant a lot of work at the cable box to separate all the ports in the house except the cable modem. This would have required running at least one more line up to my attic as the cable modem line was shared with my office line. Also MOCA 2.0 supports about 9 times higher bandwidth than DECA. I decided these two things made MOCA worth a few hundred extra dollar, especially since this is a one-time investment. Option3: Cutting open walls is messy and expensive. I really don't want to do that. Updating my coax network: 1.) I went to the box and installed a MOCA POE filter at the input from the cable company. Don't forget this, or you maybe sending your LAN to your neighbors' houses. You can buy this on Amazon. 2.) I went to the box and also all lines I could reach in the attic and replaced all splitters with new ones rated for up to 2.4 gHz. A two way splitter comes with each Moca adapter (or set of adapters). I used one of these. Likely you need a larger one at the box. I bought a 4 way Moca compatible splitter from BAMF here on Amazon. Don't "daisy-chain" the splitters. Buy the appropriate size. You will get better bandwidth. Also don't skip this step. In doing this I replaced two splitters that were rated to 1 gHz. The Moca 2.0 channels are at 1.0-1.2 gHz. This would certainly have lowered my bandwidth, if I had not done this. The install: I installed five Moca adapters as follows: 1.) One is attached to my router - "coax in" line previously attached to the cable modem input, "tv out" out to cable modem input, Ethernet port to my router's Ethernet switch 2-4.) "coax in" attached to the cable jack by my TV's, "tv out" is terminated with an f-terminator, Ethernet is connected to a 5 port TP-Link Gigabit switch connecting my Fire TV and Smart-TV or Smart DVD player. 5.) Connects my office desktop computer the same ways as 2-4. After bringing my coax network up to date (described above). I just plugged these adapters in and it worked. No configuration needed. After installing my Internet speed tests with a laptop hooked to the switches maxes out at our ISP's limits. A network speed test using a 512mb file copy using LAN SpeedTest Lite shows the following 500-600 Mbs downstream 300-400 Mbs upstream I think the difference in downstream and upstream speeds is due to greater isolation on the output side of the splitters. After the install I was finally able to Steam stream games from my office computer to my FireTV in my Game Room.

I'm going to focus my review on some of the questions I had before purchasing. For some context, I have comcast 200 megabit download, 10 megabit upload. I purchased this product to get a wired connection from my NAS to my nvidia shield on my TV for video streaming, as well as a wired internet connection in another room across the house. For both applications, wifi would have been a major performance hit. I am only running through about 30 feet of RG6 coax. My setup involved replacing my 2 way splitter with a 4 way. This caused some loss of power, however the signal at my house is very good and comcast had installed a "pad" that reduced the power so all I had to do was remove the pad to make my signal normal. I was able to verify this through my SB6183 modem login screen. The first question I had when I purchased this was how it would work with the coax passed through the device to the modem, as there is only one coax wall outlet where my modem is located. It works perfectly, I was pleasantly surprised. I was worried the power would be reduced further like a second splitter or it wouldn't work at all, but neither is the case. Works great. The second question I had (which was answered by other reviews but hard for me to believe) was the performance. To my amazement, they perform just as well as a gigabit ethernet cable with the exception of a couple MS of lag. No big deal. Wired my speed test shows 28ms, and through the MOCA adapter it is 30ms. The speed is nearly identical. Im talking identical user experience to using an ethernet cable. I transferred a file from my NAS and it was gigabit speed. I am able to stream 4k content from my NAS on my nvidia shield TV now; something I was not able to do previously. You will need a POE filter for this at the point where the internet enters your house to prevent it "backflowing" through the cable into your neighborhood. Costs $10 and I already had one from the previous home owners having a DVR system that needed one (probably because it also used MOCA). I have tested twitch steaming and gaming through these devices and they work just as well as ethernet. The extra 2-3ms lag is virtually insignificant. You wouldn't know its there without the numbers to confirm it. Too long; don't read: Excellent, almost identical to gigabit performance. Modem can be passed through the device with no power loss. 1ghz splitters are fine, at least for me. Get a POE filter.

These work as advertised. Assuming your coax infrastructure is good, and supports MOCA, you simply plug-in the appropriate cables and they work (POE filter is recommended). I actually have a very good WiFi Mesh network that's capable of similar performance. I use these to strategically balance traffic between my WiFi and Ethernet/MOCA to reduce congestion (I have a lot of devices on my network). I use them for "Ethernet Backhaul" (between AP's, router, and switches), as well as connections to Apple TV 4K's and PS4. Currently I"m using my TiVO Bolt to bridge from MoCA to Ethernet at the gateway, and because the TiVO doesn't support bonding, I'm only getting a little over 400Mbps of throughput, but that's plenty considering I only have a 100Mbps internet service, and most of my traffic is to/from the internet. If you're using MOCA devices that support bonding throughout your network, you should be able to achieve double that (800+Mbps). I'd advise you do a little research before you make the investment. Make sure your coax infrastructure is solid (not to many splitters, splices, etc...), and address any potential issues. Also insure that each component is MOCA compatible (most are). I'd also recommend an active return drop amplifier. The PPC-9M-U/U (9 port) or PPC-5M-U/U (5 port) are good, and have built in POE filters on the input. I'm using a PPC EVO1-9-U-U (cable guy gave it to me) with an external POE filter and it works great, also it's a little cheaper. Lastly, I'd suggest putting 75ohm terminators on any unused coax cables or ports (splitters, amplifiers, moca adapters, etc...) They're cheap and reduce potential leakage and interference. My dislikes are: 1) They're kinda expensive. At almost $100 each (if purchase individually), it's not practical to have one at every coax run. 2) I prefer the design that has all the connections on one side of the device, it makes for a neater install IMO.

I installed this MoCa adapter to eliminate my Verizon FIOS router (to use my own device) and it worked like a charm. It easily and seamlessly bridged the coax network, for the FIOS One DVR, and Ethernet network in my house perfectly keeping full functionality for the set top boxes. Remote DVR functionality still works fine as does remote programming from the Verizon APP. I cannot comment on the on-screen caller ID feature as I do not use it. —-read below if you are looking to do the same otherwise the adapter works as expected—- My recommendation to use your own device is as follows. 1) Power down all of your cable TV boxes which are using a coax connection and leave them off for now. 2) Login into your Verizon FIOS router and look for the WAN interface setting to “release” the DHCP address in the router. Once you release the address quickly power off the Verizon router and disconnect it from both Ethernet and coax connections coming from the ONT. 3) Next connect your own router to the FIOS ONT (using the same Ethernet cable originally connected to the FIOS router) and power up the replacement device. Once it boots up log into your new router and ensure it “pulled” an IP address from Verizon’s ONT. Connect a computer/laptop and ensure internet is working as expected! If not you may need to call Verizon to release the MAC address on the ONT. They’ll know what you’re talking about, hopefully… it is Verizon. If not hang up and call back hoping you get another tech who does understand. 4) Next, connect the MoCa adapter to the coax cable originally connected to your Verizon router, and a new Ethernet cable which will need to be connected to your switch/router/whatever device your using. 5) Power up the MoCA adapter and wait a minute or so to ensure it is “connected to the network”. 6) Now power up your DVR first, and wait for your live TV service to appear on your TV. At this point the DVR should be “talking” to your new router and pulled an IP address through the MoCa adapter. 7) finally power up the rest of your cable TV boxes and verify remote DVR functionality, etc with your DVR. One item to point out is the coax LED on the MoCa adapter will not illuminate while powered up, only when it creates the “MoCa connection” with your DVR. …so if you don’t see it light up right away it is normal. Once your DVR is up and running then go back and check the MoCa adapter and you should see the COAX LED lit. Success!! Or not? Google “using FIOS 1G service with own router” and follow the rabbit hole, tons of useful forums to help troubleshoot. Good luck!

So far, I have been unable to get it to work properly with my Comcast triple play X1 service. Internet speed is extremely variable, internet connects but cuts off for several seconds frequently. Not sure if these issues are related to the Actiontec adapters themselves, my Comcast service or the wiring inside my house. Will update this review if and when I am able to figure it out. So far, neither Actiontec nor Comcast support have been very helpful. Am updating my review and changing it to 5 stars after I figured out how to get this adapter, and two others I bought separately, to work properly. Turned out that the Actiontec adapters were not the problem and that it was an amplifier that Comcast had installed at my point of entry into the house was incompatible with MoCa and that is what was causing the Actiontec adapters to malfunction. Comcast had no clue and was totally unable to help with anything but I eventually figured this out by trial and error and purchased a MoCa compatible amplifier from Amazon (see included link for the model I purchased) to replace the one that Comcast had installed. Once I did that the Actiontec's have performed flawlessly and we now have by far the best internet coverage all over our house since we first got Comcast service here way back in the 1990's. We now have internet strength and speeds in various parts of the house where the Actiontec adapters have been installed that are exactly the same as those available at the main Comcast router. This MoCa technology is awesome and given most homes have coax cables already installed in many rooms, offers a superb and reasonably inexpensive solution in addressing weak or non existent internet service in various parts of homes that so many people face. It is really a shame that not many people know about it. Only advice to potential buyers is that you will need a direct coax line from the point of entry to the house, or from the amplifier located at that point of entry, to the room/outlet that you want to install the adapters. If there are splitters in between, particularly splitters that are not MoCa compliant, the adapters may not function properly. Highly recommend these adapters and have already convinced other family members to get some for their own homes that they have noow done and are also very pleased with. PCT 8 Port Cable TV Splitter Signal Booster/Amplifier with Active Return Zero Signal Loss and Integrated MoCA Filter

The MOCA technology works great and I highly recommend getting a MOCA adapter if you have FIOS and want high speed internet at your TV area. However, I'd strongly recommend not buy this ECB6200 and rather get the ECB6000 if you have FIOS. Apparently the coax output from the splitter in the ECB6200 only goes to 1 GHz which is NOT adequate for a FIOS STB. It passes the TV channels but does not allow the STB to connect to data services (TV guide, VOD, DVR, etc). I had to go out and buy an external coax splitter to put in from of this adapter, and now the coax output from this goes unused and theoretically degrades my signal strength to the MOCA adapter because of the now useless internal splitter. This didn't affect me yet but who knows if I add more drops in the future Really really terrible engineering to have the coax output only support up to 1 GHz. I didn't bother to check this spec before I bought because I figured only a moron engineer would have designed it that way. Any $5 coax splitter supports up to 2 GHz which is required for FIOS STB.

Bought this to try and fix Tivo host connection failures between a Tivo Roamio OTA and a Tivo Mini that were both connected via ethernet to the same Netgear WNDR4300v2 router. To summarize, this device is working flawlessly, but only after getting rid of the Netgear router and replacing it with another brand. I don't know what the Netgear problem is with Tivo, but it was obviously blocking a port or protocol over the wired lan ports on the router. I'm quite savy with networking, and couldn't get that setup to work without replacing the router. Using an old Linksys WRT54GS with DD-WRT worked fine. A Netgear WNDR4500 (v.1) also with a beta DD-WRT firmware worked intermittently. I ultimately replaced the router with a D-link DIR-880L, and it also worked perfectly. Anyway, I had already ordered this MOCA adapter, so i decided to entirely revise my configuration. I previously had my OTA antenna feeding only the Tivo Roamio--my TV's had no antenna connection. I now have the OTA antenna feeding into an older, discontinued Winegard distribution amp. From the amp, I then feed through a MOCA POE filter (probably not needed since this adapter does not pass the frequencies MOCA uses between the two coax ports on this adapter) into the "TV/STB Out" port (yes, this is backwards and contrary to the instructions) on this adapter. The "Coax In" port is actually functioning opposite and feeds into a 4-way splitter (you must use one that will carry the MOCA frequencies up to 2300MHz) that then feeds the TV, the Roamio OTA, and a second room where the Tivo Mini is located. The 4th port on the splitter is terminated with a 75-ohm cap. In the second room, I have 2-way splitter (again, must cover the 5-2300MHz frequencies) that feeds the Tivo Mini and the TV. My Tivo Roamio OTA, along with a Tivo Stream and this MOCA adapter are all connected to the network via ethernet into LAN ports on the router. I was able to eliminate the ethernet cable going to the second room and improve Tivo connection stability, all while simplifying the cabling and expanding the OTA antenna connection directly to the televisions instead of just the Tivo Roamio. I am getting over 94 different OTA channels to all my devices 48 miles from Houston with a single OTA antenna. I'm quite impressed.

The Actiontec MoCA Ethernet to Coax Adapter (ECB6200) was up and running in less than 5 minutes! Just as expected. Clean, compact design. [See photos.] The unit has 4 LEDs: Power, Coax, ethernet connection status and activity. The unit stays cool to the touch. The external power supply [photo] outputs 5V DC at 2A. Power consumption measured 2.6W using Belkin Conserve Insight (F7C005). In use 24/7 since June 7. As some reviewers indicated, this is a plug-and-play solution for using existing coax cabling -- in my case idle coax drops in rooms which formerly had FiOS TV connections. That is, extending Ethernet connections to other rooms over the MoCA LAN of the existing (coax connected) FiOS router. This LAN is "behind" the ONT (Optical Network Terminal), which is mounted on the wall outside and connected by coax to a splitter under the house. The Adapter does not operate on the MoCA WAN (Internet) -- that remains the job of the FiOS MoCA compliant 1.1 router (Actiontec MI424WR Rev. I). My TP-Link client bridges had been reliable and easy to setup. They provided a Wi-Fi bridge to ethernet-only (e.g., PoE devices) in those other rooms. But Wi-Fi performance always varied more than a wired connection. Actiontec's online User Manual and product page helped clarify some specifications. Power, Coax, and Ethernet LEDs: - Power LED: glows solid green when Adapter is powered up. - Coax LED: glows solid green with connection on the Coax port. - Ethernet LEDs (2): located on upper right and left corners of the Ethernet port; left LED glows green on connection; right LED blinks amber when data is transferred across port. IP LAN MoCA (v. 2.0; up to 1.4 Gbps throughput) LAN Ethernet Port 10/100/1000 (1) LAN Connections Coax In Frequency Range - Extended D-band: 1125MHz ~ 1675MHz; Full Port Range: 5MHz ~ 2150MHz TV/STB Out Frequency Range - 5MHz ~ 1002MHz And so compatibility with my Actiontec MI424WR Rev. I router (specs): Multiple networking standards support, including: - WAN - Ethernet and MoCA interfaces - LAN - 802.11b/g/n, Ethernet, and MoCA interfaces MoCA - Two channels (WAN, LAN): - WAN MoCA frequency: 975 MHz - 1025 MHz (single channel) - LAN MoCA frequency: 1125 MHz - 1425 MHz (6 channel)

I was previously using Powerline for most of my house, which is unbeatable for convenience. However, after numerous configuration changes (signal transferring through multiple breakers, etc), the highest speed I could ever achieve on Powerline was 170mbps (once). Usually ran in the 100-150mbps range. This was on the lower end of what I'd like to see for seamless 4K streaming from a NAS, or multiple streams from the same NAS (e.g. one 4K to the bonus room and 1 HD to the bedroom). Although the MoCA adapters can be a little touchy when it comes to perfect coax cable prep and condition, the speed really does blow Powerline out of the water. My internet connection is 300/300mbps, and I've seen as high as 330 in either direction with MoCA. In most cases, the Powerline is sufficient (gaming consoles, 1080p streaming), but to fully utilize the 300/300 internet connection, it was either MoCA or start pulling some CAT7 cable to futureproof the home network. These should be plug-and-play for the most part, again depending on the coax wiring in your house. That being said, they definitely deliver much higher network speeds than Powerline, as there are fewer issues to worry about (load on the electrical system, jumping circuits). NOTE: My internet comes in through fiberoptic so the coax infrastructure was completely free for MoCA purposes.

Funktioniert direkt, keine Konfiguration von Nöten. Durchsatz 650Mbit über 3 Etagen. Verbesserungswürdig. 1. APP für ggfs die Firmware upzudaten 2. Netzteil dabei (US) aber nicht jedes externes 5V Netzteil (2A) wird akzeptiert (Power Leuchte blinkt in diesem Fall)

In my house, the UHF TV signal is distributed throughout the house by a 12 way distribution amplifier fed from a log periodic aerial in the loft. There is a restrictive covenant covering all houses on the estate that prohibits any aerials other than satellite dishes and these must be fitted below the roof line. My house is in a dip and out of sight of the transmitting aerial some 15 miles away. The signal can be intermittent and prone to distortion especially in certain weather conditions. To provide a good signal to the two main reception rooms I used an existing SkyQ satellite dish to receive Freesat satellite signals. This meant that the two coax cables from the distribution amplifier in these rooms are not needed. However, a consistent high speed network feed for streaming is essential. This led to a decision to unplug these coax cables from the distribution amplifier in the loft and connect them together so that there is a continuous coax cable between the lesser reception room which houses the FTTP (Fibre to the premise) broadband feed and the main reception room. They are 15m apart. Initially, I purchased the ScreenBeam starter pack of MoCA Network Adapters (ECB6250) and they were an immediate success. Installation is very simple and quick. I had the link working in ten minutes. I was so pleased with the setup that I then purchased an additional single adapter to connect the Office computers to the net. I replaced the coax cable connector in the loft with one of the splitters included with the kits and then connected the Office cable to the splitter. I was delighted with the results. The average of a series of Ookla broadband speed tests using the computer in the office returned a download speed of 941 Mbps and an upload speed of 110 Mbps. If you are interested in using these MoCA adapters I would suggest using F Type cable connectors throughout. In my setup, the coax cables to the distribution amp were already F Type and I replaced the face plates in the Reception rooms and Office with F type faceplates. Also you will need to purchase USA to GB plug adapters as the kits come from the USA. That said, service from the company via Amazon was outstanding and the units were delivered within days and update information was timely and informative.

Plug and Play at its best... Abgesehen davon, dass das Netzteil mit US Stecker kommt (entspr. Adapter für DE Steckdose wird benötigt) ist es wirklich mit Einstecken getan. Sofort Verbindung aufgebaut, Surfgeschwindigkeit subjektiv deutlich besser als mit WLAN). Und das Gerät ist auch kompatibel zu den bei mir vorhandenen MoCA 2.0 Adaptern von Kiwee, die ich leider nirgends mehr bekomme. Lediglich der Preis scheint etwas übertrieben; aber immerhin habe ich jetzt eine stabile Internetverteilung, die bei mir deutlich zuverlässiger ist als Powerline (da hatte ich ständig Abbrüche).

IF you've gone from coax cable to internet based TV boxes, this is for you. I use these because the performance of the TV signal over WI-FI sucks badly, so you have a choice, use the hardwired Ethernet port on the cable TV box. Then this is what you need. Ultra easy to use and perfect Ethernet data transmission. These are well made units and correctly engineered for performance out of the box.