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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.
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.
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.
