Review on Translite MoCA 2 5 Ethernet Ports by Chris Cervantes

EDIT 13 APRIL 2020: Turns out the six way splitter I was using advertised as MOCA compatible was causing my less than perfect connection . When I replaced it with a two-way splitter, my reliability improved to that of a Cat6 Ethernet cable with no buffering or packet loss. Signal quality is of course important for these devices. ----- When I first connected two of these to my existing coax cable, my internet speed dropped from 90Mbps to around 30Mbps, even on computers connected directly to my router (not on the MOCA network ). I added a POE filter to the headend to make sure I didn't get any interference from my neighbors and not much has changed. After reading some best practice documents, I moved the POE filter and plugged it straight into my modem and my internet speed was suddenly back to full speed. Some modems appear to be adversely affected by MOCA signals. I ordered additional POE filters to put one back on the headend and everything is working pretty well now. When running iPerf between two machines on a MOCA network with 4 or more threads, I get 900+ Mbps with no problem. In any case, this is probably the upper limit of my computer network cards. However, when I run internet speed tests, it fluctuates between 50 and 90 Mbps. I suspect these MOCA devices have deep buffers that can interfere with TCP RTT and cause performance degradation. I would like the buffering to be configurable, but unfortunately it isn't. It's definitely better than the powerline ethernet or wifi extenders I've tried, but still not as good as home ethernet. I'm basically satisfied.