MOCA NETWORK DIAGRAM FULL

When the MM1000 finally arrived, I was excited to test it out and see if I could get it to simulate the ONT’s WAN connection to the G1100. The MM1000 would effectively simulate the ONT’s MoCA interface in my original setup. My plan was to place the MM1000 in my garage by the ONT, and connect the Ethernet port to the ONT and the coax to the line going to my house. I settled on purchase the Motorola MM1000 MoCA 2.0 adapter for about $70 on Amazon.

There are several popular MoCA adapters on the market that are sold in pairs, but like I said, I only wanted to buy a single MoCA adapter to place at the ONT between the Ethernet port of the ONT and coax line going into my house. Goal: Simulate the ONT’s WAN MoCA Interface But that would require purchasing two MoCA adapters, and that seemed like a waste of good money when my router already had a coax port that supported MoCA. The second easiest solution would be to buy two MoCA adapters and connect one of them to the ONT’s Ethernet port and the other one to my router’s WAN Ethernet port, with the coax line between the two MoCA adapters. Verizon wanted to sell me the Fios Network Extender and charge me monthly to rent the device, but I didn’t want an additional monthly charge on my bill, so I decided to buy my own device.

The problem was that I couldn’t easily do this, because the ONT is on the far outside corner of my house, and there isn’t an easy way to run Ethernet from there to the network in my house. Now the easiest solution would be to simply switchover to the ethernet port at the ONT and connect this up to the rest of my house, which is partially wired for CAT6 Ethernet anyway. At any rate, my older ONT certainly couldn’t support the gigabit speeds of MoCA 2.0, because it’s just too old. I have some doubts about the actual throughput of the ONT, because the MoCA 1.0 standard, which was ratified in 2006, supports speeds of up to 135Mbps, and MoCA 1.1, which was released in 2007, supports up to 175Mbps. As explained by Verizon, this ONT only supports up to 100Mbps over the MoCA interface.

The ONT at my house is an Alcatel I-211M-H and was installed at our house around 2010. I do have some parts of my house wired with CAT6, and so I connect my home’s CAT6 Ethernet network to the Ethernet LAN port of the Quantum Gateway. Inside the house, I had a splitter that connected from a coax port in my basement to both my G1100 FiOS Quantum Gateway, which I bought from Verizon, and the Verizon Set Top Box (STB). A coax line connects from the ONT to my home’s coax network. The Verizon Fios fiber line comes to the ONT mounted outside my house. Here’s how my house was setup before making any changes. If your house is already wired with a coax cable connection in each room, why not take advantage of it? While WiFi speeds are improving with each new release of the standard, they still lag wired solutions and probably always will. Many people are using MoCA these days as a way to overcome the limitations of WiFi and bring gigabit speeds to each room of their house without re-wiring their entire house with CAT6. So what’s MoCA? MoCA stands for Multimedia over Coax Alliance, and it’s simply an alternative physical layer implementation of Ethernet that goes over your coax line instead of something more familiar, like CAT6 cabling. BUT now that we had access to 200Mbps, I couldn’t not take advantage of that! And so began my investigations into MoCA. Ironically, even with five people in our house, and all using the internet concurrently for work or school during the COVID-19 lockdown, we didn’t have much complaints about our 100Mbps throughput limit.

MOCA NETWORK DIAGRAM FULL

She said the only issue is that if we wanted to actually make use of the full 200Mbps, we’d have to switchover to using Ethernet at the ONT (Optical Network Terminal) instead of coax, because the ONT can only operate up to 100Mbps over coax. After several calls and hours on hold, my wife was able to get our bill knocked down about 10% and our internet speed doubled from 100Mbps to 200Mbps. This happened recently, and I asked my wife to give Verizon (our ISP) a call and threaten to switch to Comcast (competitor) if we couldn’t get a better deal. Every other year or so, our home internet and cable bill goes up and we have to call our ISP to renegotiate our terms.

Moca network diagram