First MoCA 1.1 cable set-top-box gets certified

If you loved using the existing coax in your home to network your devices together at 110Mbps, then you'll love MoCA 1.1 even more -- testing has shown it can reach speeds of 175Mbps and up the number of participate devices to 16. The real challenge with MoCA right now though is that there aren't many devices out there that support it and those that do cost a pretty penny -- well worth it if you can't run CAT5 cables though. Advanced Digital Broadcast, and Entropic made a little progress today however by getting the first MoCA 1.1 set-top-box certified, which we're hoping is just the first of many devices to jump on the MoCA bandwagon. Because as cool as it sounds to have an Ethernet jack on the back of your HDTV or game console, it doesn't do most any good because there's only a coax cable running to their equipment.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:26AM]

Check out my posts here for getting MoCA with a less pretty penny:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1145636

xnappo

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 12:02PM]

I just bought some MoCA boxes off eBay and simply plugged in the cable and ethernet and was done. No need to do any configuring. These are black boxes similar to what people have for basic cable...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 12:08PM]

Just buy Motorola NIM100 Cable Modems off eBay for @$40 each...(if you can find them!) simple plug-n-play.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 12:12PM]

Yes, I mention the NIMs in my AVS post - however they are more expensive and hard to find. The Actiontecs are pretty easy to configure, and as a bonus have 4 ports and can double as wireless bridge...

xnappo

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 2:30PM]

""Service operator-class" robustness and reliability, with support for Parameterized Quality of Service (PQoS)-protected delivery of premium content across the home network."
So MoCA1.1 brings yet another DRM scheme to the home...lovely.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 10:33PM]

PQoS is not DRM, it is simply traffic prioritization to ensure that your video streams do not starve for bandwidth by raising its priority above your normal traffic.