Your TV Cable Is a 2.5 Gbps Network: How MoCA Saved My Three-Floor Home
Give a MoCA to your home and turn your TV installation into a LAN!
In this article, I will share my personal experience of getting in touch with and implementing MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance), including why, how, which choices I made, and which mistakes to avoid. I hope that it can help anybody interested in starting on this path.
1. The Problem i.e. the Opportunity
In 2024, I moved to an independent house built on three floors... plenty of room available and just an FTTC internet connection capped at more or less 70 Mbps. I did not have many exigencies in terms of devices and interconnectivity—just a couple of NAS units, a printer, a smart TV (at that time plugged directly into the router), some domestic appliances like smart bulbs, a pet feeder, and some video surveillance cameras. All these latter leaned on the 2.4 GHz SSID...
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