Atlantic Broadband
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itsbob
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Well, we had whole home DVR< and our Main DVR failed. They came in and said.. We don't have those and can't replace those anymore. You'll have to upgrade to our new TIVO system.. I thought $$$$$$
Well, I was wrong. I upgraded and our bill went down substantially.
With that, TIVO uses all the cable in your house to be hardwired internet (MOCA), wherever I have a cable drop I can put a router, or hardwire a Smart TV to the internet. Still have wireless, but now I have wireless Routers on both ends of the house instead of just in the office where the cable enters. We have the main TIVO box in the basement, and I believe 3 (or 4) on the main floor and upstairs, every TIVO box has an Ethernet port, but I've found some of them work (the main box does) the others I needed a MOCA router and a cable splitter.
I'm getting 200 MBPS speeds.. and all my NEST cameras work and don't drop offline every 5 minutes.
Well, I was wrong. I upgraded and our bill went down substantially.
With that, TIVO uses all the cable in your house to be hardwired internet (MOCA), wherever I have a cable drop I can put a router, or hardwire a Smart TV to the internet. Still have wireless, but now I have wireless Routers on both ends of the house instead of just in the office where the cable enters. We have the main TIVO box in the basement, and I believe 3 (or 4) on the main floor and upstairs, every TIVO box has an Ethernet port, but I've found some of them work (the main box does) the others I needed a MOCA router and a cable splitter.
I'm getting 200 MBPS speeds.. and all my NEST cameras work and don't drop offline every 5 minutes.
terbear1225
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Is it safe to assume that you don't have phone through abb?
itsbob
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Yes I do, but never use the damn thing.
terbear1225
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what wireless routers are you using?
we have their tv, internet phone bundle, supposed to be 100mbps) but not getting those speeds. with 4 of us on wifi, running 2-3 google meets/zoom meeting at a time we are struggling
itsbob
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I use 3 NetGear NightHawks, for routers, and NETGEAR Range Extenders in the basement.
We had 100 mbps, when we went to TIVO we upgraded speeds as well, and the price still went down.
In the end you want to hardwire as much as you can, it makes a HUGE difference. Ran a CAT5 to your laptops, even some of our TVs are wired into a Router, streaming movies is 10 times improved. If I could find a way to wire in my FireStick I would.
Which is where MOCA is real handy.. wasn't going to do CAT5 runs through the house to get to the router in the office, but having a Router in almost every room it's not hard to have wired access almost everywhere.
We had 100 mbps, when we went to TIVO we upgraded speeds as well, and the price still went down.
In the end you want to hardwire as much as you can, it makes a HUGE difference. Ran a CAT5 to your laptops, even some of our TVs are wired into a Router, streaming movies is 10 times improved. If I could find a way to wire in my FireStick I would.
Which is where MOCA is real handy.. wasn't going to do CAT5 runs through the house to get to the router in the office, but having a Router in almost every room it's not hard to have wired access almost everywhere.
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terbear1225
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this one?:
sorry to pester, I'm a software person, not a hardware person so definitely feeling out of my element.
terbear1225
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looking at dropping the phone anyway and going with ooma instead
itsbob
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MOCA network adaptor where-ever there is a cable drop in the house:
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NightHawk AD7200 in the OFFICE CAT5 coming from the ABB ARRIS Router..
NightHawk AX3000 run from the above MOCA adaptor. Cable coax comes into the room, goes into a splitter, one coax goes to the TIVO box, the other goes to the Motorola adaptor, CAT5 from the Motorola Adaptor to the Nighthawk router.
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ECB6250
ECB6250 MoCA 2.5 Network Adapter turns your existing coaxial cables into a high-speed ethernet network. Click to see product description, specs.
www.actiontec.com
NightHawk AD7200 in the OFFICE CAT5 coming from the ABB ARRIS Router..
Robot or human?
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NightHawk AX3000 run from the above MOCA adaptor. Cable coax comes into the room, goes into a splitter, one coax goes to the TIVO box, the other goes to the Motorola adaptor, CAT5 from the Motorola Adaptor to the Nighthawk router.
Netgear Nighthawk AX4 AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 Router
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I received the email. I only use their cable wifi. My connectivity has been a bit wonky lately, but I understand that just about EVERYONE is on line...
I only have a cell phone.
Clem72
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I got that. Noticed they mention one of the things they may want to discuss is additional services. I.E. they are going to try and upsell you on higher internet speed and are using CV19 as an excuse to do some business development.
itsbob
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NOT a bad thing to do..
I'm sure some are realizing that with students doing school work, and mom and dad working they may not have the speed and bandwidth they need.
Goldenhawk
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I've also had good success with MOCA (basically, ethernet over coaxial).
We have a detached apartment that we rent out, and needed to get internet signal out to it. The wifi wouldn't reach that far (over 100 ft). When we built it 15 years ago we ran some satellite TV coax out to the building, but didn't think about running ethernet. So I bought a coax adapter and and it's been rock-solid for a few years now. I think the speeds are about half my paid tier, so good enough for our tenants to do basic streaming.
All in all, it's much better and more reliable than the wifi linkup used to be, which was spotty connections and maybe 5-10Mbps at best, even with some wifi extenders between the closest windows.
PeoplesElbow
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Well damn I just ran CAT 6 to all my rooms.
SamSpade
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I can think of few things that will make me HATE THEM more than to encourage me to pick up their phone call in order to SAVE money only to hear them give me a sales pitch to give them MORE money.
Okay... it's not just my house then. Plus the regular TV signal is pretty crappy today.
PeoplesElbow
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Anyone know how well the power line adaptors work? What keeps the neighbor from doing not so savory things with their power line and your internet?
Clem72
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You're better off. MOCA/DECA require a powered adapter at each end, only go to 100mbit at most (I think that's what I remember, not going to check), and technically speaking you should either disconnect from your outside cable drop or run a filter in-line, otherwise you are blasting your data back out and possibly causing issues for your neighbors.