Posts tagged ‘connectmystuff’
Setting up a MoCA Network in your Home
How to Set Up a MoCA Home Entertainment Network
Xbox to Media Player Using MoCA
Here are a couple of HOW TO videos complements of the folks at ConnectMyStuff.org showing how you can connect your Tivo, Slingbox, and Xbox 360 together through a MoCA network. The Slingbox sends HD video to another room using the SlingCatcher and some updated software while the Tivo’s exchange recorded HD shows with each other through MoCA. The Xbox can play HD videos from a PC or NAS as well as through the Internet using Netflix. MoCA can handle up to 6 HD video streams simultaneously and requires a MoCA adapter (less than $99 each) for each of the rooms where you want a network connection. A lot easier and cheaper than running Ethernet CAT-5 through your walls and ceilings!
ConnectMyStuff.org
The folks at MoCA have a new website called Connect My Stuff ! and says it’s dedicated to conversations about in-home digital entertainment. It has some videos from CES as well as a couple of promotional videos about coax networking and how it works. They also just added a blog called Truth in Networking which explains what the different speed ratings you see on home networking products REALLY mean (exerpt).
The PHY rate is essentially the physical layer and represents a theoretical performance rate of data transfer. The MAC rate, media access control, is essentially the rate of transfer that is most common. The PHY and MAC rates are rarely if ever the same. But the former is higher and theoretically more impressive. After all, more must be better, right?
Pretty heady stuff. I assume we’ll be seeing more info about Multimedia over Coax Alliance fairly soon so I’m adding it to our bookmarks.
