![]() ![]() See if there is some place you could move your wireless router to that would give a stable connection in your work room and still give stable connections in the other rooms you use wireless from. ![]() You might also consider a partial wired solution. If aesthetics is a concern some sort of conduit or cable tray could be put up there to hide the cable, and probably even be made to look like it is decorative.Ģ. The other cable in that is a speaker cable heading to my right rear surround sound speaker. Here's a short section to show what that looks like. I simply screwed in cup hooks every so often and drape the cable over them. Most of this is done on the top of the walls next to the ceiling. I've got an ethernet cable running from a bedroom on the far side of the house (where one of my cable outlets is) to the adjacent laundry room, then down a hall, then into another hall, then into the living room where it comes in diagonally opposite of where I need it, then along two walls to get to where I want it. If you don't care too much about it looking pretty ethernet cable can be done with very little effort. ![]() splitters if you're trying to run MoCA.ġ. Third tip: Throw out any old 850 MHz, 1 GHz, etc. Second tip: If you have unused ports on a splitter, cap them off with terminating resistors (or better, replace the splitter with a 2+ GHz splitter with the correct number of ports). Put high-quality compression connectors on the coax and snug all connections with a wrench. This is no place for the old hex-crimped crappy ends and no place for finger-tightened F-connectors. Maybe the best tip I can give is "make sure your coax is properly terminated AND properly tightened". I'm on US powerline, but in case it helps, I'm using the "devolo Magic 2 WiFi next starter kit" for powerline and, once again, that also "just worked". MoCA, I'm only using for the TiVos, though I've tapped into it for speed testing when I first installed it and it was "perfectly more than adequate" with no real tuning other installing the MoCA point of entry filter (in my case a PCT-VC-F18a) and hooking everything up. (I'm not sure it was needed, but it seemed sensible to not try to locate the origin and the destination nodes both on branch circuits far from the panel.) Powerline, I was careful to locate the origin node near the service entry and that worked well. I've had excellent results from both powerline and MoCA in my 100 year old brick and plaster home. Most corporate landlords aren't going to remember if the 11th layout in their building has an ethernet box in that location. In some cases you can add a box without it being obvious. That would let you string a cable between the boxes. If you would have to go through a wall, often there is a cable box in the same section of the wall on both sides. If you have a run that would have to go under carpet, you can use an undercarpet fish tape and some very thick sewing needles to raise the carpet and underpad at any place it is stuck. Going around door frames is usually not so difficult: the worst case is that you would need to remove the baseboard from both sides and drill through the floor plate, which will also be invisible after you've finished. As long as you are careful, when you replace them and add a bit of caulk, it will look like new. If you have hard floors, you can get a trim crowbar and pull the baseboards off. You can get thin or flat cables that you can just push between the carpet and baseboard. If you have baseboards or carpet, this job becomes much easier. ![]() That would compromise the cable and there’s not much that will be able to handle that. The only thing I can think of as a showstopper is if they nailed through (or stapled too tight) when installing the wires in the walls. MoCa really does work very well, so I suggest you figure out what the issue is instead of looking for something else. It should only have enough taps as cables you need to connect (don’t get a 7-way splitter if you only have 3 cables).įor any unused splitter ports, make sure they are terminated.Ĭheck the connectors on each end of the cables and replace any that are loose or flimsy. You really should have only one in the house, and it should be good quality and support up to 2500MHz. If so, that’s the cause of your problem as those are designed to prevent MoCa signals from passing through. Since you said “filterS” it implies you have multiple throughout the network. You have the PoE filter (no “S”, there’s should only be one) installed on the entry point only. Going to have to go with the others and say that if MoCa isn’t working, there’s a bigger problem (PowerLine is always a bad idea). ![]()
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