Hey all… so I recently discovered the ethernet-over-coax MoCA stuff. I rent my current place and can’t get into the walls, etc. to see (or change) splitters buried inside, etc.
I bought a set of the Asus MA-25’s from MicroCenter and can’t get them to connect to each other. (Oddly enough I can only get them to connect each other 1/10 times if I just put a straight COAX cable between them when they are a foot apart…)
But from what I read, the splitters inside the walls, etc. can impact the ability for these things to connect, you need special MoCA terminators, etc.
Are there any adapters out there that are tolerant of a crummy in-wall splitter/cable setup? It seems like people like the ScreenBeam which I’m willing to try (going to return these Asus ones) if folks tell me that these should pretty reliably work regardless of what may be happening inside the walls…
Sounds like maybe you got a dud? They really should have zero issues connecting over a straight coax, especially in your 1ft test.
I use two different brands, just generic Amazon crap, and have had zero issues with MoCA and 100+’ runs. I don’t use them in a mesh though, which is where you are more likely to run into splitter issues, instead using them as basically media point-to-point converters for my wired lan. I think you’re trying something similar, which is why I suspect a possible faulty gizmo.