Home network without hardwiring - MoCA vs Powerline?

[xkola12345x]

Hello,

 

some time ago I made a post about hardwiring a house while running cables outside. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control it turned out to be impossible. This leaves me with two options powerline or MoCA or mix of the two.

 

My house is basically a duplex with a twist. It consists of two halves with separate electrical wiring and phone lines, but one coaxial installation for the whole house. (see the drawing).

 

 

Currently I have a 80 Mbit/s DSL internet (real speed is around 60-65 Mbit/s), and landline phone form one provider, and cable TV from the different one. I want to switch to my TV provider for Internet and landline. For Wi-Fi, I use Google Wi-Fi mesh system connected to DSL modem in house 1, with points around both houses. I have the DSL internet from phone line 1, and landline phone is connected to phone line 2. Those lines are separate. The coax line as well as phone line 2 enters through the garage.

 

When I switch to the cable TV provider for internet and landline, I will get a combo DOCSIC modem, router, VOIP gateway, AP combobox. The problem is that I need the landline phone in house 2, while internet mostly in house 1.

What I would like to do, is to put the cable modem in the garage, where, I would connect the phone line 2 so the landline phone in house 2 works as it used to. In garage in house 2 I would also put the MoCA adapter and primary mesh point. Form there I would like to put second MoCA adapter in house 1 next to STB1. And additional MoCA adapters next to other STB so I could "hardwire" the mesh system.

 

 

 The problem is that I'm not sure whether the signal will be good enough for MoCA on STB 1 as there sits my primary PC.

So I'm asking you if this is good idea, or should I use MoCA only between Cable Modem and STB2 and Powerline Ethernet Between STB2 and STB1, and Modem and STB3?

[AbydosOne]

I'm going to TL;DR and say: ignore powerline, go MoCA. Sub-100Mbps vs over-1Gbps.

[xkola12345x]

Ok, but I'm a little concerned whether I will get signal that is high quality and strong enough on STB1, as it is quite far away from the garage, and all Coax jacks in the walls are connected in series.

[AbydosOne]

10 minutes ago, xkola12345x said:

all Coax jacks in the walls are connected in series

Like, there are coax splitters at every port, or something jankier?

 

Regardless, from what I can find, MoCA is good for something like 50-odd dB loss between nodes, and each splitter is like 3.5dB, so that's a lot of splitters you can go through.

 

17 minutes ago, xkola12345x said:

as it is quite far away from the garage

Coax cable by itself doesn't have very much loss (hence why it's used for cable distribution, etc).

[xkola12345x]

2 hours ago, AbydosOne said:

Like, there are coax splitters at every port, or something jankier?

Might be junkier, as I'm in Europe, and we have something called pass-through aerial wall sockets, so I may have to change them.

But one more question about MoCA. It isn't a problem, if I have one adapter, that will be a source, and 2 or 3 that will be clients on the same network?

[AbydosOne]

4 minutes ago, xkola12345x said:

if I have one adapter, that will be a source, and 2 or 3 that will be clients on the same network?

Yes, MoCA was designed as a multi-node system (have done it myself and it works).

 

EDIT:

5 minutes ago, xkola12345x said:

as I'm in Europe

I don't actually know if MoCA was ever intended for the European market. In the US, both antenna TV and cable providers use 75-ohm RG6 cable. I don't know if Europe uses different standards for home coax.