MoCA in Europe: Echobox promises Ethernet through your aerial, an end to Wi-Fi woes | News | TechRadar
May 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm poidawg 3 comments
Echobox promises Ethernet through your aerial, an end to Wi-Fi woes | News | TechRadar.
After building up so much momentum in the US market, MoCA is now starting to show up in Europe most recently with the Asheridge Communications Echobox which is being marketed from the UK for Cable TV users as well as Over-The-Air TV viewers. The Echobox is a nifty design that enables connections to Smart TV’s, HD set top boxes and online gaming consoles for customers who need a more reliable stable connection than WiFi can provide (see chart below). We hope to see the same growth of MoCA across the pond as we’ve seen in the US.
| ASH -EOC-01 – echoBox | 802.11n WiFi (3×3 MIMO) | Homeplug AV 1901 | |
| Best average network speed | 136 Mbps | 10 – 40 Mbps | 30 / 40 Mbps |
| Interferece Immunity | Excellent (with shielded coax cable). | Poor. Sensitive to RF signals, surrounding environment & neighbouring WiFi networks. | Weak. Sensitive to appliances, chargers, fluorescent lights, dimmers etc. |
| Download MP3 (1000 songs)* | 6 minutes | 10 minutes | 13 minutes |
| Download HD Movie (2hours DVD Video)* | 6 minutes | 12 minutes | 16 minutes |
| Backup (2000 songs, 5000 photos) | 37 minutes | 1hour 14 minutes | 1 hour 33 minutes |
| Furthest latency to your online gaming buddies | 6000km | 1000km | 1600km |
Entry filed under: Asheridge, Echobox, Europe. Tags: adapter, asheridge, echobox, Europe.
1.
SCY | May 25, 2012 at 1:47 am
I’ll like to ask a stupid question. Every device needs an IP, if I use the MoCA2Ethernet adapters on my PC, and another one on my cable modem. If the IP of PC assigned by the cable modem?
PCMoca adaptermoca adaptorcable modem
is physically equal to
PCcable modem
I think the all MoCa devices just behave like a multi-port hub.
Am I right?
As for the multi-room DVR case, who assign the IP to the DVR and the client STB?
thanks
2.
poidawg | June 1, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Yes, the MoCA network is a mesh network so it behaves like a switch. Cable modem should be able to assign the IP for the PC or support a static IP. For the multiroom DVR case, the DVR or STB assigns the IP through built in DHCP server.
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