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Which Networking Technology Is Right For Your Home? : The Connection Less Traveled – Review Tom’s Hardware
Another MoCA review is in the books, this time by Tom’s Hardware and the conclusions versus Wireless and Powerline are what everyone has come to expect:
For those who can’t string Gigabit Ethernet, MoCA is clearly the only choice when high performance is needed.
Tom’s Hardware puts MoCA through a number of tests, but where MoCA really shines is in whole home network performance as seen in the chart above. When there are multiple video streams through the house, MoCA performance is almost double what Powerline and Wireless-N have to offer. That means better HD streaming from Netflix, Xbox, TiVO, VUDU, DLNA or whatever movie services happen to be watched in your home.
Read the full review here.
Add comment December 2, 2009
MoCA to the MAX | Maximum PC
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Maximum PC gives NETGEAR’s MoCA adapters an 8/10 score and raves about the easy installation, speed and security of the product.
Setup is Joe-six-pack friendly: Just unplug the coax cable from your TV set and plug it into the Netgear MOCA adapter. Run a second coax cable from the adapter to the TV. TV signals are passed through transparently, so your American Idol viewing won’t be disturbed.
The reviewer also streams HD videos with no problem and gives his final verdict thusly: + Easily builds a secured, wired, network using existing coax cables, – Doesn’t work with satellite providers, VERDICT -> 8 (out of 10)
See for yourself at Maximum PC
Add comment September 2, 2009
More Reviews of MoCA
More and more positive reviews of the Netgear MCAB1001 MoCA Adapters are coming to light. These are a few more great reviews; check them out if you need even more reasons to buy one of these adapters.
Add comment August 17, 2009
Get Your Network up to Speed
The New York Times has created an article that compares Wi-Fi, Powerline and MoCA. Simply put, MoCA comes out on top, followed by Powerline, then, trailing the pack, Wi-Fi. They do specify that this is best for people who want to do some network intensive processes such as streaming videos/movies, etc.
Add comment August 13, 2009
Yet Another Rave Review of MoCA
The Netgear MCAB1001 MoCA adapters keep getting rave reviews. Recently, the folks over at Station Stops have reviewed the MoCA adapter from Netgear and have deemed it the best solution I have found to bridging Ethernet around your home easily and at high speeds. I recommend it highly.
Add comment July 22, 2009
Engadget Reviews MoCA!
The folks over at Engadget HD have reviewed the Netgear MCAB1001 MoCA Coax-Ethernet adapter. They do a great job at simplifying the concept and describing how the technology works.
This is a new device so we think a little introduction is in order. While this little box looks like a switch it’s really a bridge, in fact it is a Ethernet to coax bridge. You need two devices to get started, but can use up to 16. Each one has two coax connections and one Ethernet. The coax acts as a pass through so you can continue to use the coax cable for its initial purpose — you know cable TV or an ATSC antenna (not compatible with satellite). With these you can add a network connection anywhere in your house you have a coax cable running.
They give it a rave review, saying that that it works exactly as advertised without the pain of dropouts or weak throughput that powerline and Wi-Fi have. Pictures and a screen shot are included in the review, so, if you want to check it out, go to Engadget HD.
Add comment June 26, 2009
Netgear MCAB1001 Reviewed
The folks at Station Stops have reviewed the Netgear MCAB1001 MoCA Coax-Ethernet Adapter Kit. Overall, it seems to have gotten a positive review.
If you want to plug multiple devices on the remote end (as I did – it is sitting behind my TV and needs to feed my game consoles, TiVo, remote Wifi AP and internet-connected TV) – you just need to plug the remote end into a cheap router (as the remote device itself only exposes a single IP address).
Previously, the only way to accomplish this type of thing without wifi or ethernet was to use Powerline ethernet, which is basically an identical solution except that it uses your AC wiring. The problem with Powerline is that the real throughput speed can vary widely, and even in the best case maybe tops out at 45 Mbps – half that of the Coax product.
If you want to read the full post, check out Station Stops’s review.
Add comment June 24, 2009
SmallNetBuilder – More MoCA: D-Link DXN-221 & Actiontec ECB2200 Reviewed
SmallNetBuilder – Small Network Help – More MoCA: D-Link DXN-221 & Actiontec ECB2200 Reviewed.
Wow. MoCA is really beginning to blast off as a new and exciting home networking category and these new products just add to the excitement. Both the D-Link and Actiontec MoCA adapters give the same great performance as the Netgear adapters reviewed about a month ago and are all compatible with each other so you can mix and match devices in your home network. Depending on your brand and feature preferences, all of these adapters are MoCA compliant so interconnectivity won’t be a problem. That’s a big leap for MoCA networking as more vendors jump on the bandwagon to deploy MoCA-enabled networking products and consumer electronics gear. Stay tuned to the blog as the new connected devices start rolling out this summer, all of them able to take advantage of a wired MoCA home network.
2 comments May 16, 2009
Netgear MoCA COAX-Ethernet Adapter Kit MCAB1001 – PracticallyNetworked.com
Netgear MoCA COAX-Ethernet Adapter Kit MCAB1001 – PracticallyNetworked.com.
Another MoCA review is in and the verdict?
For situations where Wi-Fi or powerline networking won’t cut the mustard, chances are the Netgear MoCA Coax-Ethernet Adapter kit will.
The reviewer gave the Netgear MoCA adapters high praise for ease of setup and good performance which has become a common theme among many of the reviews from both consumers and networking bloggers. He also performed a variety of “real world” tests using streaming HD video
To gauge how well the MCAB1001 could keep the video rolling when there was other network traffic to contend with, we set up a 1 GB+ Xbox game demo to download in the background while we streamed video to the device—the video displayed with no apparent reduction in frame rate or visual quality. The same was true when we watched HD Netflix video on the TiVo while the hefty game downloads were in progress on the Xbox.
Once again MoCA shines especially while running various high bandwidth applications simultaneously. The only conclusion that might be in question is that MoCA is a last option versus Wi-Fi or Powerline networking. In fact, MoCA should be the first choice if you don’t have CAT-5 in your home. Comparing the two, wireless vs wired, is like comparing over-the-air (rabbit ears) TV vs cable TV, you might get good reception on some channels most of the time, but do you really want to deal with the randomness of wireless reception when you can have a solid wired connection all of the time? As consumers rely more on their home networks for entertainment and media streaming, the obvious choice will be MoCA.
Add comment May 16, 2009
First MoCA Bridge Review – Thumbs Up!
SmallNetBuilder.com just did the first review on the MoCA Ethernet-to-Coax bridge from Netgear (MCAB1001) and gave it a glowing thumbs up. They hooked up a pair of MoCA bridges and ran them through some difficult HD video tests in both the lab and in a home scenario and came up with this summary:
Simply put, MoCA is the only “alternative networking” technology that I have laid hands on that can reliably stream HD video—even 1080p. Of course, my limited test enviroment in no way presented a difficult test environment. But then again, my wireless environment is clean and so is my powerline. And neither of those technologies have been able to do what the NETGEAR MCA1001s did.
Wow, that’s a nice start to what will probably be a number of reviews that will be written on the new batch of MoCA products coming out. With all the new HD video streaming stuff that was shown at CES, it will be interesting to see how well the new HDTVs, Bluray Players, Tivos and Slingboxes work on a MoCA home network.
Add comment March 14, 2009
