Issues with splitters

Playground Hardware
#11

I amped it after the first split, because otherwise it was a little too strong for the modem. (Also, my modem and rack holding the Primes were on different sides of the office.)

I had to spend a weekend playing with the setup, moving the splits and amp to different locations in the chain in order to find what worked best. I am not a network engineer by any stretch, so I just had past experience and trial & error to guide my setup.

(Of course, now that I'm transitioning from cable to OTA, all of that work was for naught, but oh well ...)

#12

I have one of these things that my FIOS installer gave me once at my old house. I wonder if it would help.

It's not a splitter, it's more just a line amplifier. I wonder if I should put this on the line that's running down to my basement.

#13

That might work. I can't honestly say, because I haven't really used MoCA, so I'm not certain what effect the network transmission places on the lines.

#14

Sorry, mistyped, meant to say move the HDHR's to the garage, where your feed is to avoid the splits between MoCA

#15

Yes because you are amping a cleaner signal.

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#16

I agree, I would move the Primes and Quartro to the garage and eliminate one split with a larger splitter maybe even powered such as this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002M1EPL0/ref=twister_B00C9UJLOU?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

#17

I may be missing something here but the OTA UHF TV spectrum is 470 mhz to 700 mhz
at least one of the moca bands uses 500-850 MHz
since they are on the same coaxial cable, there may be some interference.

#18

I don't use an antenna.

#19

I just saw the Quatro and assumed

#20

The Quattro can also decode ClearQAM signals ... the problem is that very few cable providers offer unencrypted channels any longer.

#21

Any updates?

#22

That amp I had seemed to be what it said, a filter. When running the line through it, moca seemed to be lost.

I plugged the line in at the rack into the moca adapter and used the out to go to the splitter. It looks like the HDHomeRuns are behaving the same though.

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#23

Maybe try moving the HDHRs to the garage?

#24

Don't you think this layout makes more sense?

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#25

It's bad enough I have to have my router in my garage, I was trying to not have 3 tv tuners mounted up there too, and have them live in this monster rack I built :upside_down_face: I'd also rather them over a single hop of ethernet to my server, vs the Moca hop.

#26

Then, is there any way you can put everything in the basement and just use the Moca to bridge from the basement switch to the attic switch? Drill a small hole from garage to basement if you need to run a second coax cable from the FIOS box to the splitter in front of the router/HDHR tuners?

#27

It's funny how different people make different decisions of how to do things. I'd rather spend a couple hours drilling a few holes and running a few tens of dollars of Cat5 cable than plunk down $200 on a bunch of moca adapters to use the existing wiring. :slight_smile: Then again, maybe you don't own the property and you don't have that luxury.

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#28

I'm the same way, ran wire everywhere I could in my house, through many difficult areas. My wife is keenly familiar with "fishing" now, having helped me pull lots of the wire.

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#29

The moca has nothing to do with catv. It’s the network backhaul of my house. As I said in the OP, I use it to get my network to the basement and attic, as I can’t run Ethernet to them easily.

#30

This looks good to me. I have all my HDHomerun units in the basement attached to a switch and the moca on the same switch going to a 3 way splitter outside ... Then I have a moca upstairs attached to a switch which also has my synology router attached to the switch for Wireless..... along with a Comcast Modem. My Storage is also all in the basement where my Servers reside.

I also have a Filter, MoCA POE Filter for Cable TV Coaxial ... where the Cable is coming to my house.