Netgear's MoCA coax-ethernet adapter kit now available, explained with bizarre cartoon
By Ross Miller 
posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:43AM
posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:43AM
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posted Apr 22nd 2009 4:43AM
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Excellent idea, but given the cost of category 5 cable, unless your in dire straits, this really isn't an option.
Yeah other than you already have coax cable probably going to most rooms in your house (and coax is cheap too). I wired my house with cat 5 and it's a pain in the butt. This is a good idea. I might use it to expand the network to other areas.
In my 1917 built home there is no wired Cat5 any place but i do have coax in several rooms so this is a MUCH better option for me.
$200 seems cheaper than spending a day drilling holes in one wall, fishing things through into the attic over the addition, scrambling around on the joists trying to get the cable over to the other end of the addition, putting my foot through the ceiling somewhere along the way, drilling through the top plate into the wall, getting back out of the attic, drilling into the wall to fish down the cable, getting it wrong, drilling another hole, connecting everything up, patching the ceiling, and then nursing my aching goolies from when I put a foot through the ceiling.
Congratulations! You are D-Link's target market. On the other hand if your coax isn't shielded well you'll end up re-running it anyway like I did when I got U-Verse installed.
make that Netgear's. D-Links entry was last week.
I picked a couple of these kits up 2 weeks ago. Each room in my house has 2 cat6's and 2 coax's, and all my cat6's are in use for my HDMI distribution, which made this product perfect for my needs. It's just funny that my TV goes over cat6 and my network goes over coax now. Completely backwards hehe.