ASUS2.5Gbps Ethernet Over Coax Adapter Starter Kit (MA-25 2 Pack), MoCA 2.5, High Speed Internet, Mesh backhaul, TV Streaming, MPS Security, Wall-mountable

I purchased the MoCA adapters because of some huge loss of speed throughout my Mesh network. I have FRONTIER 2Gb/2Gb which is actually 2.38Gbps up and down. However, aside from my main gateway, the speed degrades significantly in many rooms throughout my 2 story house. ( I have Eero Pro 6E as main gateway provided by ISP and 3 more Eero Pro 6 throughout my house ). One of the rooms where I have my son’s gaming PC and some other equipment had one access point (Eero Pro 6) connected to a gigabit switch and the speed out of the switch (wired) was only 300 mbps on a good day and typically 200mbps (that’s close to 90% speed loss). I felt my money was wasted since I was actually using a fraction of my allocated bandwidth. I started with one pair of MoCA adapters the main one near my main router and the second in the aforementioned room. The speed out of the second MoCA adapter was found to be 2.2 gbps! So barely any speed loss. I added a couple more adapters, one next to each access point this way I am doing a wired backhaul through the mesh network. Wired speeds are awesome. Of course they are limited with network adapters which are occasionally capped at 1 gbps. Wireless speeds jumped from an average of 500mbps to anywhere between 700mbps to 1200mbps. Extremely satisfied. My theory is an average mesh + MoCA adapters will cost the same or maybe less than a premium Mesh but will have much better speeds overall.

I have an older home and was looking for a way to create a wired network between the router in the basement and my devices on the 2nd floor without running cables. I have a mesh network, but the upstairs computers were only getting 1/4 to 1/3 of my Internet bandwidth due to losses over the air.I cut the cord a few years ago, and have unused coaxial cable running all through the house, so the ASUS 2.5Gbps Ethernet Over Coax Adapter Starter Kit is exactly what I needed. Once I connected them and wired the computers, I was gettting full use of my Internet bandwidth. Another advantage is that I was able to connect the mesh satellite points to Ethernet to create a wired backhaul, which greatly improved the Wi-Fi speeds for mobile devices on the 2nd floor.Installation was straightforward - just collect each one to coax and Ethernet, power them up, and they should work since the starter kit's units are already paired. The hardest part was figuring out which of the coax cables in the junction box went to which room - if I had a cable tester with tone and probe it would have been simple.The system is also expandable - you can add up to 16 nodes. I added a third node to get wired internet into another room. I will note that you have to pair the new node with your network, which requires pushing the security button on one device and then going to the other to push its security button. If you miss the timing, the devices don't pair and you have to do it again. If you do add another node, I would suggest having a second person available to press one of the buttons.A couple of things to keep in mind:1. the MoCA adapters communicate using high-frequency signals (greater than 1,125 MHz) so you need to check the frequency rating on any splitters that will be in the signal path to ensure they can pass the signal.2. If you have an active cable TV/Internet connection, you want to look into getting a Point of Entry (POE) filter. This will prevent your devices from communicating with nearby devices outside of your home.3. The lights on the units are rather bright, so if you are putting it in a bedroom you may want to find a place where it will be out of sight or install it so the lights face the wall.If you are looking for a way to expand your wired network in your home, the ASUS 2.5Gbps Ethernet Over Coax Adapter Starter Kit is a good option.

I have been wanting to wire the house with Ethernet for quite some time, because I live in a neighborhood crowded with techies, and the WIFi space is incredibly jam packed. I have 1.4 Gbps Internet, but in practice, the WiFi solutions I have had, have not been able to even come close to that. I'd also like full bandwidth to the RAID array, and also between the computers, but WiFi can't deliver there either. The problem is that wiring the house with WiFi is super expensive and disruptive.This was the perfect solution! Almost every room in the house already has a cable outlet, so: done! Just plug this in, and you're ready to go!Okay, it wasn't _quite_ that easy. The cable modem that the cable provider had given us, had MoCA permanently on, and it was an older version of MoCA that jammed this one. So we had to figure that out, and then return the cable company's modem (opting instead to own our own). You also have to worry about interference with the outside world; the cable company's rep was nice enough to install a filter between us and them that blocks the frequencies used by MoCA. There also were some issues with splitters everywhere that the cable company rep helped us to get sorted out.I am still working on getting the full 2.5 Gbps inside the house (and I don't yet know where the bottlenecks are) but I do see the full 1.4 Gbps to the Internet from my MacBook Pro, so that's pretty good, and a wild improvement over the WiFi I was previously using.I am still 100% ogling the idea of 10 Gbps Ethernet throughout the house, but for now, this is installed and working, and that makes it excellent. The best networking solution is the one that you actually have installed and working, and for me, that's this right now.