Sick and Tired of lousy Whole-home WiFi? Forget WiFi 6, powerline, mesh networking. The solution is sweet and simple!
Do you have a whole-house WiFi range problem? Have you tried a few mega-size WiFi routers, mesh networking, and ethernet over power lines? I tried all these options and still got a fraction of my incoming bandwidth throughout the house. It seems like there is always some form of barrier getting in the way of WiFi signals. It could be too many walls, metals, or many other factors. In my case, it was some ornate wallpapers that had metal beads on them, which turned a few rooms into Faraday’s cages! But the wallpapers are my wife’s pride and joy. They must stay if I want to avoid budget cuts in my future home automation projects!
The idea of wiring the entire house for ethernet was daunting. So, I procrastinated for a few years and hoped for a super-duper WiFi 6 router to be the miracle! The one-gigabit miracle came from the existing coax cable network used for cable television and the internet! How? One word — MoCA!
Enter MoCA!
MoCA — Multimedia over Coax Alliance — is a home networking technology that uses existing coax cable wiring found in nearly all modern US homes. Using MoCA 2.x network adapters that came out in 2010, we can transfer about one Gbps throughput! This is a fantastic…
