Verizon FiOS → Re: [net] D-LINK Introduces MOCA bridge

this is great news. perfect complement to a dir 655 are people still getting the runaround from installers when requesting a cat5 install instead of a coax install?

They don't get a run around from me.

I tell them it will be $79 for cat5 or they can hire someone else to do it.

Suddenly coax looks alot better.

Besides, most who think coax is inferior relate coax to their cable company.

Some are. Some aren't. Depends on the amount of effort required by the installer of the extra run of cat5.

I don't think anyone that has run cat5 ahead of time, has had an issue with the installer provisioning the ONT for ethernet. If they have, it's a simple matter to call the FSC after the installer leaves to switch the ONT from coax to cat5 for internet.

IMO, the issue with coax being "inferior", it not a technical issue, rather it has to do only with the inability to run a router other than the Actiontec.

Coax is highly inferior. It's fine for the run to the router, but I do not run the Verizon Router. I run a Monowall firewall setup.

Full house coax installs are inferior to Cat5e/6 and a good switch. There's 270Mbit shared on the COAX and that means no gigabit ethernet.

Coax is a vastly superior medium to twisted pair. The typical in-home coax network has 1GHz of available frequency above and beyond the 870Mhz for broadcast/QAM. Although MoCA does not support GbE speeds at the moment, in all fairness, that 270Mbps is riding one 50Mhz channel. Each channel can be shared by up to 8 nodes. MoCA specs 7 additional D channels on the LAN side for a max theoretical throughput of 270*8=2160Mhz on one puny strand of coax. I wonder if these boxes will support channel bonding.

This box is a promising alternative for an ActionTec on the WAN side. The $64,000 question is: Does it support DES baseline privacy?

Cat 6A and Cat 7 can support 10 gig speeds up to 328 feet so ethernet might still be better in the long run. Does COAX has a distance limit ?