MOCA 1.1 ETHERNET-TO-COAX BRIDGE KIT

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This is a great solution to add some extra "wired" connection. For example, if you have a game console, a wifi connection offers slow speeds and much lag. This was a great and simple solution . However, this is expensive. I wouldn't recommend this unless you want a marginally faster connection than powerline. For streaming HD movies or mild gaming, stick with a powerline connection. Ultimately, if you can wire your house with CAT5 or CAT6 cable, then that's the best choice.

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Disclaimer: In this review, i'm gonna give you the honest truth and will be making references to the other product reviewers to agree or disagree with their claims such that i'm unbiased.Let's start with the good/strengths of this product. This product is really easy to setup, it's pretty much like setting up a router/switch/modem/whatever. The product comes nicely packaged with a lot of plastic covering the shiny and bags with the ethernet cable and RG6 coax (2x for each), as well as a little accessory to allow the moca adapters to stand vertically if you choose. Plug in the stuff right and you'll immediately get a connection on the other end, so configuration isn't necessary. The speeds which you get from the product are fairly rock solid as it's not like wireless or powerline (my home is old so I don't trust the electrical wiring).Now for the bad, and prepare your heart cause this is gonna be a lengthy review/rant. Something I personally don't like is the horizontal power adapter that I seem to get with my netgear products, this is something you either care or don't. Although I said the speeds were "consistent", do note I said "fairly". The speeds you get initially are nice but after transferring the same large file over and over again between two different computers, the speeds start off initially somewhat strong but will fade over time. To give you actual numbers, my home is still wired with the old RG-59 which may give you the idea that this could be the problem, but not it isn't. In referencing to the other reviewers, although it does say on the product box that the device is theoretically possible to achieve speeds of 285Mbps, Tronics failed to realize that it says right on the product that it is suppose to function at 100Mbps. Tronics' speed claim is 2-2.5MB/s, edmidor's speed claim is 11-14MB/s (extremely doubtful, read on) and nuggie speed claim is about 4.33MB/s. These numbers quite differ from what I received, so i'm assuming they got poor units or their home coax's shielding is poor/compromised. Between my two computers separated by 3-4 splitters, I would start with speeds at 8MB/s (MegaBytes, not MegaBits) but after approximately a minute, you will notice the speed dropping and would continue until it plateaued. The same file would be repeated 3 more times but initial speeds would start respectively at 7.8MB/s, 7.7MB/s and 7.5MB/s. I tried connecting the two adapters at the first split to see if RG-59 and splitters were the issue. Same style testing but the respective starting speeds before dropping and plateauing were 8.5MB/s and 8.2MB/s. My next test involved just connecting the two adapters straight to each other, completely taking out the Internet and transferring on LAN with no interference. Sad to say, but the speeds did not differ from those at the first split. This leads me to the next point of contacting Netgear. I sent in my questions (about the speed and other simple ones) and seeing as the First-level support could not answer my question, he said he forwarded to the appropriate technician. Sad to say but after a week, my ticket auto-closed and I sent in another one telling them how disappointed I was with their support. This quickly got me a response and they reopened my ticket and I got a response to the questions that could be easily found in the manual but not the one which I asked about what speeds I was expected to get from the product (so I asked again). Again, to this day, that ticket has been left unanswered (probably auto-closed by now) and I don't expect Netgear's technicians to even know about this product or how well/poor it performs.If you've read through all that, I appreciate it, but to get to the bottom line, is this product worth the premium it's made to be? The answer is... No. I personally would not recommend this product to anyone and hope that this review was insightful.

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I bought this to stream 1080p mkv files to my acer revo. For that purpose it does work well, provided that is the only traffic being sent via the moca device. I suspect some of the other reviewers are confusing bits and bytes when stating their speeds. I am only getting about 16-17 MegaBITS per Second. While this is fine to transmit 1080p, where the average bitrate is 7-8 megabits/second up to about 15 megabits/second which is the highest bitrate 1080p file I have, it is far from the 285 megabits/second indicated on the box. It is better than powerline adapters I have used but considering I get about 2-2.5MegaBytesPerSecond I am very skeptical of others claiming 11-14 MegaBytesPerSecond. I tested this even with a short stub of coax between the two devices so there could not be any sort of interference on the line and no real I^2R losses and the data rate remains the same at about 2-2.5 MegaBytes/Second MAX!

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This device is priceless. Copying 4Gb file was 2.2 MB/s over Wi-Fi, with all the highs and lows, now it's stable 11-14 MB/s.

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I wanted to stream videos (SD and HD) from my computer setup (PC, D-Link NAS) in the basement to the PS3 two floors up. I was able to do SD stuff ok over the PS3's built-in wireless G connection, but HD stuff didn't really fly.While a wired Cat5e/Cat6 connection would have been the best performing and cheapest (in terms of materials) solution, the distance was just too great and messy for an out-of-wall setup, and wiring it through the walls would have cost mucho $$$.First I tried setting up a wireless N bridge. Since the endpoints of the bridge were at diagonally opposite ends of the house, my signal strength wasn't great and I could connect at a max link speed of 81Mbps, but that would fluctuate down to 24Mbps at times... and effective transfer speeds were even slower.I also considered going the Powerline route, but reviews were mixed, and with the old wiring in my home I wasn't convinced I would make a stable connection, if any connection at all.I read about the MoCA solution online and figured it was worth a try, despite the relatively steep price tag. I got this kit for around $200 at NCIX.I was able to hook everything up in less than twenty minutes, turned them on, and... no connection. Despair. Then I read how they won't work through a cable signal amplifier, and remembered that a cable tech had installed one a few months ago since my signal is split between 4 outlets at various points. I removed the amplifier, and the units now connected! But now my TV signal wasn't strong enough at all cable outlets.While I pondered a solution to this, I decided to reconnect the amplifier so as not to anger the locals.To my surprise, the MoCA link reconnected and has not dropped since even with the amplifier connected! I'm guessing that the initial "search" failed through the amp, but once found the units were able to reconnect even through the amp. I'd take this as a YMMV though, depending on the type of signal amp/booster installed.So now I'm happily streaming HD while enjoying a strong TV signal at the same time. I haven't checked to see exactly what my connection speed is, but I haven't experienced any stuttering even with no compression on the stream. FYI, I just did a quick test and copied a 1171MB file across in a little less than 4.5 minutes, which is about 4.33MB (megabytes, not megabits) per second. Count me as very satisfied!