TRENDnet Ethernet Over Coax MoCA 2.5 Adapter, TMO-312C

I have been using an old Actiontec Fios router that I was using as a MOCA bridge that was a pain to set up a decade ago. I've always felt like it could be faster and looked into it and found it couldn't keep up with my current Gig speed internet but put off changing it out in fear the new solution would be another pain and maybe not even work as I expected. I was so wrong. This was super easy to install! I unplugged the old router and attached the Trendnet adapter and it just worked straight out of the box! No IP configs, no bridging, nothing. Plug and play. And it's way smaller! I tested the speeds throughout the day today with the old router and was getting about 151 down / 130 up all day. The new router gave me instant upgrade to 779 down/ 415 up!! Cannot recommend this product enough. Hope it lasts forever!

Update. I bought more moca adapters and now have a 1 to 4 moca setup (one at the router, 4 connections to APs throughout the house. This has fixed my WiFi problems, since now all those “mesh” APs have good signal going in. Easily getting 200-300 mbps on WiFi throughout the house. Previous Review: I used an 8 way splitter, replacing the old one that only worked up to 900Mhz with one designed to work with Moca. That’s it. That’s the only real thing I installed, because this friggin awesome product works well over 25+ year old coax buried in my walls. I can’t speak for 1gps+ speeds, my service is only 500mbps. But with just a mesh router system, I wasn’t seeing anywhere near that except at the router. Now I see 500mbps at points throughout my house (with obvious degradation the further you get from an AP). Wired it’s perfect. This is an incredible product. I was skeptical since I had tried other things, mesh routers, Ethernet over power line, that boasted high speeds. Everything else didn’t cut it. This product. Worth the money.

These things work right out of the box. No fussing around with software or setup or special nonsense. Plug each end into your cable feed in some Ethernet and you have a hard line to somewhere. Pricey but worth it!

I purchased the two pack as a starter to test whether moca would work for me, but I like that I can buy them individually to expand the reach of my wired network. I must admit to having had serious doubts, but these moca adapters work very well to create wired connections in rooms that do not receive wifi signals. A wifi mesh would provide access, but it would be more expensive and puts more load on the wifi bandwidth. The only downside I have found is a reduced upload speed compared to wifi, but it has not limited anything I need to do. These moca devices create a wired connection over the existing coax without rewiring the house. If you need more connections in a room, you can use a small network switch which are inexpensive, or you could use an old router as a wifi extender for that room. I use a switch which gives wired connections to all of the devices in my office, thereby using wired speeds that are much faster than wifi. Your setup will depend on your needs. However, I can recommend these adapters if you have unused coax and need a wired connection without rewiring your house or apartment.

I wanted to change to a wifi mesh system of my own choosing for my Verizon Fios service. I bought a TP-Link Deco unit which is great, but to leverage its features, I had to make it the main router. The ONT in my house was updated to an Ethernet connection, and the router was supplying the MOCA connectivity for the TV set top box. I bought this device and connected it to a switch that was connected to the Deco unit. The set top box worked after that without any complaints, and I have great wifi in the home. I read that Verizon issues two IP addresses to every ONT in the case the home owner wants to swap routers without having to call them to reset the lease on the IP address. That was true in my case, and setting up the Deco unit was frustration free, just like this unit.

Worked great to send LAN signal down a coax in an area I couldn't run LAN cable. Handles streaming and online gaming with no delays of glitches. Someday I will get some CAT6 in the wall but till then this unit does the trick!

Unless you have two coaxial systems in your house, this useless product will not work. Customer service was friendly but could not address false advertising. They also kept insisting that I needed to follow the Quick Installation Guide which was a joke as they show internet service coming into the house through the air! This internet signal enters the house by magic. Then you capture that signal somehow and connect it to a router. Once you have achieved this feat, you are all set because now you can connect the router to the adapter and then connect a coaxial cable from the adapter to an unused coaxial port. Now don’t forget that this port is unused because you don’t need it to bring the internet cable into the house because you previously magically got that signal through the air. Using a cable splitter does NOT work. Two Trendset reps finally told me to just connect the two adapters to each other completely bypassing the entire coaxial system in my house!! I got a comcast tech to come and he could not do anything. He said that if one does not have two coaxial systems say one was used for cable and another was used for a satellite dish, then the adapters will not work. Or you pay someone to run another coaxial wire through the walls of your house to connect two rooms. I wasted many hours trying to make this useless adapter work including watching various how to videos. Needless to say I am returning this terrible product including all the various coaxial and Ethernet cables that I had to buy separately as no cables were included in the box! Who needs cables when you can get high speed internet through the air?

Why did it take me soooo long to hear about this!?? Living in a large, brick home that has a FIOS modem & router on one end of it and attempting to use a range extender for streaming at the other end of it was NOT working. At. All. Then the old COAX "cable boxes" get shut down and replaced with wireless devices. Which meant attempting to relocate the modem and router (and crawling under a 30 year old house to drill holes for new wires...NO THANK YOU). My son came home from college & said MoCA was the answer. So I delved into the world of MoCA. 1. The new Verizon Fios routers ARE compatable. There seemed to be alot of yes/no discussion around this. 2. You only need 1 box if your router is compatible. The set up was very simple. Coax line in wall. Box. TV. My son said something about direct connecting to ethernet for gaming speeds (which he uses when home), but that means nothing to me. I now can stream movies/TV with no lag, freezing, buffering or Interruption. Yay! And I know it saved me upwards of $800 by not having to have someone come run new lines throughout my house.

Got these as my son’s room didn’t have good WiFi coverage and wasn’t easy to get a CAT5 cable to. It did have an aerial cable so I thought I’d give this a try, and really glad I did. It just worked, I had to re-terminate one of the cables with a better CoAx connector so I had a good stable connection, and once I plugged it in I was getting full speed to our Vodafone fibre internet connection. Had to purchase a couple of US-UK plugs as they come with US power adapters, but no issue with that and the supplied power supplies work for US and UK voltage.

It works, it is reliable, and it has allowed me to have uninterrupted high speed internet on the top floor of a two storey house with the modem in the basement. I previously used powerline for this and while it worked in general it did have to be reset often and the speed was less than I wanted. I then tried for a while using wireless on my PC but my work demands that my connection is not interrupted, and that was the case too often. Using MoCA has been the answer to my issues. I now get very high speed and while some have reported needing to reset the adapter once in a while. I have been using mine for many months with zero issues. So far so good! I recommend this to anyone figuring out that the whole home wireless option touted by the big ISPs just isn't good enough for all purposes.

These units are rock solid. I have been using them for over a year without a whiff of an issue. By default they’re generally invisible on your network but you can configure them to obtain an IP address and then even access a web UI for further configuration, firmware updates, and to access statistics. You can fine tune the frequencies they use, configure hashes for security, etc.

Ich nutze die so und so nicht gebrauchten Coax-Fernseh-Leitungen in meinem Haus nun zur Datenübertragung. Das ist viel stabiler und mit deutlich höherer Datenrate möglich, als über Powerline. Was ich nicht wusste: Es wurden leider nur amerikanische Netzteile mitgeliefert, die passen nicht in deutsche Steckdosen (und arbeiten meines Wissens nach auch nur mit 110V)... Daher unbedingt 2x 12V1A Netzteile unabhängig mitbestellen.

Reasons To Buy + You don't have a network port in a room (and wifi isn't cutting it), but you do have an unused coax cable connection. + Gets good speeds - I got 725 mbps reading a 1GB file from another PC (with SSD) on my network. Note that I don't have any TVs connected, and the wire I used was a direct home run from one room to my basement. There are no splitters, etc. + Easy to set up - just plug in the COAX on each unit, and the ethernet port to a switch/device on either side. I was done in a matter of minutes. + Your other coax devices should work fine + While I have not tried the latest powerline devices, MOCA is an order of magnitude better than any powerline networking devices that I've ever tried Nitpicks / Hit or Miss * Does not include any cables (cat5 or coaxial) * Real world performance depends on a lot of factors - splitters, cable quality, the real world throughput capabilities of your networked devices, etc. * Depending on your setup, you will need to buy a filter for your main cable coming into your house to prevent your MOCA traffic from getting outside of your house. For my particular case I didn't need one, since all of my cable runs from my basement to the various rooms were not connected to anything. Reasons Not To Buy - Does not have a built-in splitter for connecting to a TV or set top box. You need to provide your own if you are still using coaxial for any TVs, etc. You'll have to buy your own (and be sure that you buy splitters that work with MOCA) Good Value? At ~$160 for a pair at the time of review, it's not cheap by any means. But for my situation, I did not want to run a network cable from a room on the second floor of one side of a house to the basement on the opposite side. I'm sure the cost (hired or DIY time/effort) to run that one cable would be more than the cost of this set. I was literally done in about 5 minutes. Even though the 725mbps is short of a full gigabit, that's more than enough to service the room that I put it in.