Hi All

As the titles says, I want to get wifi across my house which has 5 floors, particularly my home office which is on the 4th floor.

The router is on the second floor and serves the ground, 1st and second floors fine. Its the top two floors where I have a problem.

I have a 1 Gigabit connection, and on the lower floors I get about 700Mbps over Wifi, but on the top two floors I only get about 5mbps.

Running Ethernet cables is not an option, but I do have a coax socket next to my router, and nother on the 5th floor. SO I was thinking about getting a couple of MoCA adapters and sticking a wifi access point on the top floor?

Short of running Ethernet cables, does this seem like the best solution (assuming the coax cables are up to the job which I wont know until I buy the adapters).

If so, is there a wireless access point you can recommend for this purpose. I want it to make the most of the 1Gb connection but don’t want to spend hundreds.

I was thinking about getting the goCoax MoCA 2.5 Adapters

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Thanks in advance

  • mcribgaming@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your plan should work. MoCA is a great alternative. Those GoCoax Adapters are what I’ve used and recommend the most.

    You need to either get a MoCA PoE Filter and connect it to the feed line coming from your ISP if you use cable Internet, or disconnect the feed line from any cable splitter if you’re using fiber. All coax splitters between the adapters need to be MoCA compatible.

    Also note that you can attach a switch to any MoCA Adapter in order to wire in multiple devices in the MoCA locations. Wiring in devices, especially in the office, gives them the most reliable results, and also unburdens your WiFi, which helps devices using WiFi.

    As for an Access Point recommendation, I generally recommend either a Ubiquiti U6 Lite or U6 Pro if you want to spend a bit more and want a dedicated Access Point. But anything can work as an AP these days: my Ubiquiti recommendations, or another router set to Access Point Mode, or even a single mesh node set to Access Point Mode. It’s not difficult or very different using any of these as a new Access Point.

  • qqererer@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have AC hardware and run ethernet and routers as switches and WAPs.

    I don’t know about AX or mesh networks, but if they both also use the 2.4 and 5 ghz wireless spectrums, your limiting factors are walls and distance. You can only combine two max. So it’s either w+w, w+d, or d+d. Try to add a third, and it’s not going to work.

    Your throughput in each floor is about what I expect if you’re trying to push one wireless access point over 5 floors. And that 5mbps isn’t probably a ‘real’ 5mbps. 5mbps you can still game/stream easily over ethernet, but 5mbps from 1gbps over 5 floors via wifi is unplayable and unwatchable. That’s like getting 90% packet loss.