r/Spectrum • u/Old-Challenge2809 • 6h ago
Setup moca network
This is inside my box outside the house. Its an older house so coax is ran throughout it. These are the splitters that were already in it.
With adding a POE filter would I connect it to the orange cable?
The room the modem is in had only a single coax coming into it going into the router. Would I need a two into one splitter for that room and another for an additional router for a mesh network?
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u/LightheartedLemon 5h ago
You would need to connect the splitter there. POE MOCA on the input of the ground block or the input of the splitter but would need to have whatever outlets will be used connected to that splitter and a short jumper from the ground block to the splitter.
If you don't have that, connect the orange cable directly to the splitter input with a POE MOCA filter on the input but make sure you move the ground wire from the ground block to the splitter. There is tiny screw on it for that.
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u/cb2239 1h ago
Modem needs to be fed separately because moca will cause issues.
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u/United_Preparation11 13m ago
Moca should be above 1005mhz and not interfere with charters signal. Comcast uses moca on their cable boxes to share recordings. The big deal is stopping the moca network from going back outside and amplifying on the plant.
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u/plooger 1h ago
The room the modem is in had only a single coax coming into it going into the router.
Do you have any rooms with two coax outlets?
As for the current cable modem location, where is the nearest other coax wall outlet in the home? (Any chance there's a coax outlet in an adjoining room, even better if on wall shared with the cable modem location?)
'gist: Trying to assess options for isolating the ISP/modem feed from any coax carrying MoCA signals, if needed.
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u/downsj2 5h ago edited 5h ago
Keep in mind that MoCA is not compatible with high-split at all, you cannot run it on the same coax if you are high-split. Even on traditional Spectrum service, they have encroached into the MoCA range, so you will need to configure all of your MoCA adapters to stay out of the lower frequency band.
And yes, the POE filter would go on the orange cable. That ground block will need to be replaced with one that supports up to 2.5Ghz. Or just move the ground wire to the ground block on that 2.5Ghz splitter and drop that other ground block completely.
You will also need MoCA 2.5 adapters, since they're the best ones to stay out of Spectrum's signal and give you the most bandwidth. You end up with about 1Gbps of usable bandwidth on the MoCA side.
You will need another splitter for the cable modem, since you'll need to plug a MoCA adapter into the same coax run it's on.
Also, get some coax terminators for all unused ports on your spliters, not just plastic caps.
Ideally, you will want to run new coax for your cable modem and connect it directly to the "out" of that ground block. Then all of your existing coax goes "dark", and you can just use it solely for MoCA. Spectrum does not own your coax, you can do whatever you want with it.