MoCA Vs EoC Vs HomePlug Vs HPNA Vs G.Hn

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I am a little confused with all the competiting but similar technologies out there. Does anyone know of a good research tool(other than google/wikipedia) to get some answers on similarities, differences and benefits of each, and between these technologies.

Thanks for your time.

 

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EOC (Ethernet Over Coax) is not a communication protocol or standard.
Moca is an example of an EOC technology.


G.Hn (http://www.homegridforum.org/) claims that it will have connectivity over three types of medium: Coax, powerline, and telephone lines at gigabit speed.

I'm not aware of any current G.Hn products, either for consumer or service provider. The homegrid website doesn't list available products. It looks promising and has some significant backers but we could still be years away from having it in use in a home.


Moca (http://www.mocalliance.org/) operates strictly on coax, and can coexist with TV and cable modem.

Moca is already in wide use and the next generation will be a significant improvement on an already-popular product. There are only a few companies selling consumer products but they are easy to come by. There's a lot of used equipment available, mostly in the form of old FIOS routers.

Current typical application layer speeds are 70-80mbps.

HPNA (http://www.homepna.org/) has quite a few products on the market and some of which claim to provide gigabit speed. Most of the products are EOC, and only a few have phone line connectivity.

HPNA is a strong product as well, but because of the frequencies it uses, HPNA can interfere with cable modem, especially HPNA 3.0. HPNA 2.0 uses 4-10Mhz and HPNA 3.0 uses 4-21Mhz. Cable modem upstream frequencies are 5-42 Mhz.

You would have to rely on another medium (wifi, ethernet, powerline, HPNA over phone copper) to complete the link between the router and the rest of the LAN. Moca setups don't have this problem. I have my home net set up on Moca to all the drops, including the cable modem router.

Homeplug is extremely popular and it seems nearly all users of it are happy with the performance. Homeplug only uses the power lines in your home. Sometimes high power appliances can cause intereference.

SmallNetBuilder has performance comparisons of homeplug units here
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/powerline-charts/view

 

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Thanks for the reply

By EoC I meant HomePlug AV 1901 (EoC) in contrast to PLC.
Which would be better overall HomePlugAV Eoc Or Moca or HPNA?

 

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Homeplug AV is powerline ethernet, and IEEE 1901 is a similar standard that is compatible with Homeplug AV.

It seems that there was an implementation of IEEE 1901 signaling over coax which was used by some ISPs in Asia. This I believe is what you are thinking of as Homeplug EoC. I don't see any products that were commonly available in the USA. I found one home product by Zyxel but don't see any for sale. The only other product I found was made for ISPs by Cisco and also not available for sale.

Since IEEE 1901 EOC products aren't readily available, I don't recommend it.

I recommend Homeplug powerline for availability and ease of setup. If you're set on using coax then I would choose Moca. If you don't use cable TV, then you can consider HPNA as well.