MOCA Switch?

[tmiranda]

Is there such a thing as a MOCA switch? The house I have has coax cable drops in every room and they all terminate at one panel in the garage. I'm considering using some MOCA adapters to get wired networking into some of the rooms.

The easiest topology would be to use one MOCA adapter to connect one of the coax cables to my main network and then connect the other end to a MOCA switch in the garage and plug all the cables (that terminate in the rooms) into the MOCA switch.

Does such a thing exist?

[Zogg]

With FiOS, the router is the main MOCA device and connects to all the set top boxes over the cable. The cables from each room are connected with a splitter/combiner.

So wouldn't you do the same thing, put a MOCA adapter in each room and in the garage use a splitter/combiner to combine those coaxes to connect to a MOCA adapter in the garage?

[mdnttoker]

I just attach a regular old switch to the MOCA adapter, and I can connect TV, Sage, PS4, DVD all to the internet over the MOCA bridge.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Zogg

With FiOS, the router is the main MOCA device and connects to all the set top boxes over the cable. The cables from each room are connected with a splitter/combiner.

So wouldn't you do the same thing, put a MOCA adapter in each room and in the garage use a splitter/combiner to combine those coaxes to connect to a MOCA adapter in the garage?

I could do that but then it would be more like a hub. Will the performance suck?

[Zogg]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

I could do that but then it would be more like a hub. Will the performance suck?

Honestly, no idea. I guess it would suck if all rooms were in use at the same time, but you'll have to decide how often that would occur. You could test it with 2 pairs of adapters.

But the MOCA adapters are pretty small, so if you need to just use one for each cable end in the garage (i.e. an adapter pair for each cable run) and then connect them all to an ethernet switch there in the garage. That would give you maximum performance and really wouldn't take up too much room.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Zogg

But the MOCA adapters are pretty small, so if you need to just use one for each cable end in the garage (i.e. an adapter pair for each cable run) and then connect them all to an ethernet switch there in the garage. That would give you maximum performance and really wouldn't take up too much room.

I thought about that way as well, which led me to think "there must be a better way".