I preface this by saying I know that nobody can give me a definitive answer with the information provided. I’m curious if anyone dares to offer any vaguely educated guess.
I want to set up MoCA devices in my old (built circa 1900) city apartment. There are two coax cables in the home - one coming in through the window of my living room and the other through the back bedroom window. Once out the window, the cables run all the way down the outside of the building from my fifth floor apartment to… somewhere I can’t find or get to.
Is there any way to guess the likelihood that these would be connected (via a splitter?) in a way that would be conducive to MoCA? Would it make any sense for them not to be connected to each other in some way if they are intended to service the same apartment? Is there any way to check without buying additional equipment (with my budget already stretched pretty thin)? I’m willing to gamble a little if they are probably connected, but am wary of investing in two unreturnable MoCA devices if they won’t be able to speak to each other.
My guess is your building is probably all fed into a single box or source somewhere.
MOCA does have some information in regards to building type arrangements but forewarning I use moca in a single family type arrangement and not and apartment and I don’t know exactly what the parameters would be. I would think in this instance it would be on a building wide type of arrangement and not individual units. If the cable was direct from end to end in your unit without feeding other units I would say without hesitation it would work great.
wary of investing in two unreturnable MoCA devices
Purchase from a source with a good return policy? (Also, ‘tis the season for extended return windows.)
Who’s the provider? Comcast typically will perform this service free-of-charge; that is… grouping and isolating the residence’s coax behind a “PoE” MoCA filter.
