I'm about to cut cable and I'm looking at options. I have not had any real issues with streaming over wifi, but people are acting like MOCA is the bee's knees. Has anyone set up a MOCA network, and if so, have you compared it to a good, strong n wireless signal? I haven't noticed any frame dropping now even when my son is gaming online, I'm surfing, and we are streaming Netflix. Certainly not enough to justify the more than 100 bucks in MOCA to ethernet adapters. I know you'll want to know my connection speed. I'll have to look it up, though. Mostly looking for experience.
#2
grub
Our local cable company uses it, it seems to run on any old shitty wire for the most part. I mostly pull it out though as I work for the local telco and we use HCNA which need better quality ends and barrels and a 0dB loss splitter. A little more finicky but more suited for Ethernet as MOCA is more for multi-stream video.
#3
PatrThom
Thicknet?
GigE is practically as common as 4-conductor phone cable used to be, but the "new" hotness is some newfangled form of thicknet?
Handy...but only if you have 75Ω cable already strung all over your house, not so handy if you have no cable strung all over your house.
--Patrick
#6
strawman
First I've heard of it, actually. Sounds expensive, but I suppose if you aren't able to do your own wiring and there's cable installed it's a reasonable solution.
Honestly I've had a variety of high performance N routers (from 150 to 900) and I've never had issues with stuttering video, gaming, etc. If you only buy cheap wireless routers then you're going to run into problems.
But I'm in an aluminum sided house, so I'm probably experiencing a lot less interference than you might be depending on other networks near you. If your router doesn't auto select the best channel, you should do a wifi survey and make sure yours is on a relatively clear channel.
All that being said, any sort of wired network is going to outperform wireless in many ways, but one doesn't necessarily replace the other. Use both and prosper.
#7
grub
We run up to 6 TV boxes and 4HD and 1SD streams on HPNA, I know that MOCA can do 6 boxes and 6 HD without a problem.
