MoCA 2.0 products

[RogerSC]

Just saw a youtube video about a Hitron consumer-level cable gateway that incorporates MoCA 2.0. I've been looking around for consumer product MoCA 2.0 adapters, of course, see below on that one.

Here's some information about the Hitron cable gateway product:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc9SHKA3gno

http://www.hitrontech.com/en/newsroom_detail.php?id=65

This led me to another Hitron product, the HT-EM, which is supposed to be a MoCA 2.0-based adapter, but doesn't look like you can buy them yet. So maybe, at some point, Hitron will provide MoCA 2.0 products for us:

http://ir.entropic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=214388&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1828339&highlight=

 

[Brid]

Thanks for this. These three models are really promising, but I can't find them anywhere, even through regional service providers. Anyone have a notion of their availability?

Hitron: HT-CGNM, HT-EM, and HT-EMN

 

[azazel1024]

Very, very little availability.

As near as I can tell, Actiontec are about the only folks who still seem to care about making MoCA products. The action seems to be 80% wireless, 15% ethernet, 4% powerline and 1% MoCA.

MoCA 2.0 seems to be a thing. Just not a thing that anyone made for more than a hot second.

 

[stevech]

zillions of MoCA chipsets go into cable TV set top boxes for whole-house-DVR. I guess that's the cash cow.

 

[azazel1024]

zillions of MoCA chipsets go into cable TV set top boxes for whole-house-DVR. I guess that's the cash cow.

That and MoCA in routers seem to be pretty much the only market right now. When I was searching for a dedicated MoCA bridge to replace my ancient Actiontec router, that I was using only as a bridge for MoCA to ethernet, I pretty much only came across used devices, or Actiontec 2500 series seem to still be made.

Just about everyone else seems to have EOL their MoCA products about 12-24 months ago. The 2500 is good, but it is still only MoCA 1.1 and not 2.0. Very tiny and low power though, about 3.5w compared to my Actiontec router/bridge combo, which sucked 11.5w (part of why I wanted to ditch it).

 

[Brid]

Thanks. Yes, I've found a few routers, but they just aren't what I'm after.

Like you said, these Hitron models don't seem to be available anywhere, nor do these bridges, which are my main targets:

1) Netgear WM2500RP
2) Arris Media Gateway 2402

If anyone has used one of these, please do let me know.

 

[Porschefan]

I saw the same video, and a few others too. Arris had a similar device that I actually called them about but it sounded like they plan on selling it only to cable providers. Wish they were available now!

STP

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[sm00thpapa]

MOCA 2.0 is dead. It was standard 5 years ago and no products were ever manufactured.

 

[abailey]

I am testing a Gigabit over COAX adapter now and will publish the results when I am finished. The problem with this solution is that it is not designed to share the COAX with any other signals. So for someone like me that does not use the COAX in their house, it could be good, but probably has a limited appeal as most people use their COAX.
http://www.eqcologic.com/products2.asp?title=SFP Module: Gigabit Ethernet over Coax&PID=16

 

[azazel1024]

Let us know your results. I'd be intrigued to see them.

One option a lot of home owner's might have if they need P2P links in their house that don't need to be used by TV/DVRs is to disconnect the two locations from the rest of the coax in the house and then join the two locations with a female to female coax adapter.

Often times all of the coax in a house goes back to one big splitter somewhere in a basement or storage room. Occasionally its a few splitters that eventually mesh everything together, but often you have options on how you can disconnect two coax jacks from everything else in the house and join them to each other and nothing else.

 

[stevech]

I am testing a Gigabit over COAX adapter now and will publish the results when I am finished. The problem with this solution is that it is not designed to share the COAX with any other signals. So for someone like me that does not use the COAX in their house, it could be good, but probably has a limited appeal as most people use their COAX.
http://www.eqcologic.com/products2.asp?title=SFP Module: Gigabit Ethernet over Coax&PID=16

that looks like a baulin, not a MoCA device.
Photo looks like some homebrew experiment.

 

[abailey]

that looks like a baulin, not a MoCA device.
Photo looks like some homebrew experiment.

LOL, no it is not MOCA. And the pic looks funny, I guess that pic was an early model. Looks like they just stuck something together. The product I have looks professional (I will include pics in my review) and does indeed do Gigabit full duplex (unlike the half duplex MOCA). But I am currently having trouble getting it to run 200ft, which is within its spec. I have a few more test to do and I am ordering a different cable to see if it will work. After that I will start a new thread with the test results. I will say that even if it works the audience will be limited. Besides having to use COAX that is not used by anything else, it is kind of expensive. The SFP's cost $100 each. Then if your switches don't have an SFP slot you will need transceivers. I tested them with transceivers. Thus for two SFP's and two transceivers it cost $266. Now seeing that it runs ten times as fast as MOCA 1.1 (really more than that since it is full duplex) that cost does not seem so bad. But considering you could probably hire someone to run an Ethernet cable in your walls for less, well that will limit the audience.

 

[azazel1024]

Are you running on an in-home coax "network"? Or are you testing a single coax wire between them? If a single coax wire, ground it and try again. Could be impedence that is giving you an issue.

Very interesting though, especially since it is just an SFP module instead of a full bridge.

 

[colinbowern]

The product I have looks professional (I will include pics in my review) and does indeed do Gigabit full duplex (unlike the half duplex MOCA). But I am currently having trouble getting it to run 200ft, which is within its spec. I have a few more test to do and I am ordering a different cable to see if it will work. After that I will start a new thread with the test results. I will say that even if it works the audience will be limited. Besides having to use COAX that is not used by anything else, it is kind of expensive. The SFP's cost $100 each. Then if your switches don't have an SFP slot you will need transceivers. I tested them with transceivers. Thus for two SFP's and two transceivers it cost $266. Now seeing that it runs ten times as fast as MOCA 1.1 (really more than that since it is full duplex) that cost does not seem so bad.

Any update on this?