Hello All ~
I have a poor wi-fi zone on the second floor in my home, which is wired with Coax for Cable. I'm ready to get Ethernet over MoCA. Done a lot of reading on it but have not found anyone doing my particular setup. They always seem to have a coax jack on the wall they can put the MOCA/EN adapter into.
I have Verizon, FIOS hardware, but only bought the 75m/75m plan (no cable or phone svc). It's an older ONT cable modem -- an ARRIS ONT1000GI4.
Fiber comes into the basement, then the MoCA (WAN) coax from the oNT goes back out of the house, where it attaches to a 3-way splitter (PDI-3WMS5 which is 5-1000Mhz). Two outputs go back into the basement and one goes up the outside of the home to the 2nd floor. I believe there are
additional splitters in the attic to get it to all the rooms up there.
One of the in-basement lines routes over to beneath our dining room, where it comes up through the floor and connects into an (oldish) ActionTech M1424WR modem. I didn't let VZ upgrade me to the G1111 or whatever because I tried it and it wouldn't support my IP Phone.
I then have a Netgear Nighthawk R8000 attached to the actiontech to provide the WiFi for the home because the actionTech was too weak.
So what I'd like is to run Ethernet over coax back up to the upstairs where there' s a coax for cable TV. Normally, you'd buy a pair of coax/internet adapters and create a virtual connection via coax.
From what I've read, you'd take one of the ethernet outs from the router, and connect it into the ethernet port of one of the adapters. The coax connection then goes from the adapter into the wall coax jack. (the other adapter goes upstairs in the obvious way). Well, all I have is that one cable coming up from the outdoor splitter. No wall jack!
Q1) Can you put a splitter before the modem, and then run the first adapter coax (out) back into the same splitter? Seems as it should work, but I just can't seem to find any examples of it discussed.
Also, I notice the 3-way splitter is only up to 1000Mhz so probably all the ones in the attic are as well.
Q2) To get Bonded MoCA 2.0, will I have to swap out that 3-way, as well as any splitters in the attic? But before I invest in those...
Q3) Is that old cable modem ONT even to be able to support MoCA bonded 2.0. Does anyone know? IS there some way to get VZ to upgrade it to one that would support it?
Thanks so much.
Jesse