MCA1001 CONFIGURATION UTILITY FREE DOWNLOAD

MoCA claims the actual real-world maximum is closer to about Mbps. I have not had any problems to-date with the Actiontec models. Later on, powerline networking technologies like HomePlug offered an alternative to Wi-Fi in cases where excessive distance or interference made wireless communication impractical. After much searching on forums, you are the only one I could find that correctly identified the problem with my Netgear MCA adapters. Netgear support was less then clueless…they even had me connect the Ethernet cable from the MoCA adapter back to my router where the other end was. It works as advertized ,set up was a breeze,until one fine day we had a power outage. I swapped the cables,checked the connections, and tried and failed to get into the configuration utility.

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I see some have replied within the last month so even utiity this blog is 2 years old, MoCA is coming into its own and more people are searching for info and finding YOU.

Notify me of new posts by email. Unlike powerline network adapters, Multimedia over Coax adapters are quite content to be plugged into surge suppressors.

One nice touch is another button that turns off all the bright blue LEDs … every piece of equipment with bright LEDs should cobfiguration this option!! A few days later I had the new unit, wired it up confighration plugged it in and it worked perfectly. You have to disconnect the adapter, wire it directly to your PC with a hard-wired IP address in the After doing a little more reading, I discovered that the MoCA adapters use the spectrum on the coax lines above the 1GHz range.

The configuration options are slim. I swapped the cables,checked the mcq1001, and tried and failed to get into the configuration utility. After studying the problem i came to the conclusion that these malfunctions are because of the delicate MOCA power adapters that cannot take power surges.

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Then I moved the router, which meant disconnecting and reconnecting everything. As long as you don't mind tinkering, The Dude is a decent network utility utiliyt should be worth the download. Here are the rates as reported by my TiVo Premiere: Not a great track record.

It would also be nice if you could purchase these adapters singly, instead of just in pairs. Just over a month later and the RMA replacement died! The setup is supposed to be relatively straight cnfiguration To find out the problem conect your moca to the pc directly via lan ,leave pc at dhcp automatic on status and open the MOCA configuration utility while the moca is in set up possition.

Hey Windracer, I see some have replied within the last month so even though this blog utilkty 2 years old, MoCA is coming into its own and more people are searching for info and finding YOU. In so doing, it allows you to join entertainment devices-- a set top box, Confifuration, game console, or Blu-ray disc player-- to your home network. Find a Network Term. It works as advertized ,set up was a breeze,until one fine day we had a power outage.

So the old one was definitely defective and my MoCA network is back at full strength. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear.

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Here are the rates as reported by my TiVo Premiere:. The MCAB kit consists of a pair of MCA adapters—one to connect to your intended device, and one that completes the link by connecting to your broadband router. Netgear support was less then clueless…they even had me connect the Ethernet cable from the MoCA adapter back to my router where the other end was. My TiVo Premiere now had a nice, fast, wired network connection in the media cabinet instead of wireless.

MoCA Coax-Ethernet Adapter

Everything hooked up great — I cofniguration my two Tivos 1 Premiere, 1 HD seeing each other, and able to connect to the Internet. Symptoms are link light wont come on. Your network traffic now goes from the router, out over the coax wires already in your walls to the other adapter, then over the CAT5 cable to the target device at speeds up to Mpbs. They said they have never received problem calls on this adapter and a faulty coax-in has never been reported — yet just before I utiliyt to your blog three people reported the same, and have talked with Netgear.

MCA1001 Utility

I would double-check your connections, since you moved the router. Netgear will never get another penny from me. Just wanted to add my two cents….