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Interested in moca - got a few questions (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Alternative_Claim473@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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I've got a new build in the UK. Rather annoyingly there is standard UK Aerial cable to various places in the house but not ethernet. This is stapled to the stud work so I can't use it to pull ethernet through.

Enter moca (I think)...

Each of the terminals has a separate line that all converge under the stairs (imagine a star-network topology).

Got a couple of questions:

I have a particular device that does not use much network < 1MB per day and doesn't require "high speed". Given this is an entirely separate line, am I ok use a cheaper, passive, 10/100 Moca 1 device here or are these fraught with problems?
For the other devices, I want as high speed/low ping as possible so will be using Moca 2.5. My question is, compared to ethernet, what am I not getting/what will be worse? (I was unable to get this answer from Google strangely - it just says its nearly-comparable to ethernet, but doesn't tell me what nearly means)

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[–] Alternative_Claim473@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah ok - I wasn't planning on using a splitter, I would just going to stick a device on each end.

So given this, it does make sense to go for the cheaper option as listed in [1] for one of the devices that doesn't need the bandwidth - right?

15ms ping is quite high isn't it? Unless what you are quoting is to an external server over internet.

[–] JuicyCoala@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yup, up to you. 15ms is external.