Review on High-Speed MoCA 2.5 Ethernet Over Coaxial Adapter with Dual Gigabit Ports (2 Pack) - TL-MC84 Model by William Belczyk

Out of the box I couldn't get these things to work the slightest bit. I'm open to the idea that my network setup is to blame, but it was a lot of trouble that I don't think should have happened. I stuck them in the wall, turned them on, disconnected my switches from my horrible powerline network, and connected to the MoCA LAN. One room was ok because it had an entrance but couldn't see the other room. In another room it was even worse, the network was "unidentified". It's ok, the manual says I have to manually set the IP address and login to the admin panel. But that didn't work either. A ping to 192.168.144.200 had an "unreachable host" at 192.168.144.100. I knew I had set up my computer correctly. After walking around I came back and decided to turn off the light switch in each room and instead put the laptop in the most turned off room. Configured the IP address and again "unreachable host". I was very upset that I had to scratch my fingers to replace my existing home wiring splitter switch with one that MoCA will do, so the thought of this whole network upgrade being a failure enraged me. After a walk I found a solution. The FIRST box gets 192.168.144.200. The SECOND box gets god knows what. The instructions didn't say it. I just accidentally turned on the Remote Room Adapter last, that partly explains it. And you can't try to connect to another box through the network and not through the LAN ports. I still couldn't get the bridge to work until I configured both adapters to use some statically assigned 192.168.1.x addresses that match on my network and configured the gateway to use that one that everyone else uses. When I want to bump into existing addresses, 192.168.144.x is pretty weird, especially when I have to type them in locally anyway. This first/second block behavior makes sense (there can't be two devices on the same IP), but the manual really should have included a "Getting Started" specifically asking to do this one at a time. Now that everything is working, I was counting on my full gigabit speeds. While these are 3 gigabit adapters, my switches only got 1 gigabit and well, they only got 0.64 gigabit. Sure, it's better than the 71 megabits I got with Powerline, but I had high hopes, especially since I'd just upgraded my splitter and my home wiring is relatively new. Now I'm kind of married to MoCA, so I have more space to buy and plug in adapters. I'll update the review if the speed drops on a network with more than two adapters.