I recently bought a newly-renovated house with coax cabling throughout, all of which is home run back to the ONT in the basement. The previous owners were TV people; we are not (we are an OTT household). It is a 4-story home with tall ceilings, and 2-ft thick stone walls (exterior mostly, but some inside walls as well).
You can perhaps already tell where I'm going with this.
The gateway (a Quantum G1100) is currently on the second floor. For the sake of discussion, let's presume my goal is to have hard-wired IP devices (e.g., Rokus) feeding HD content from a NAS unit or the web to TVs on all 4 floors of the house. That will require at least one Ethernet port per floor.
I *think* the answer is:
3rd floor: MoCA adapter (hard connection point)
2nd floor: Gateway (wireless coverage for top two floors)
1st floor: MoCA adapter (hard connection point)
Basement: Network Extender (wireless coverage for bottom two floors)
I'm considering the ECB3500T01 MoCA adapter, but am wondering if that's necessary (it's ~$220). Given the description above, do these adapters need to be on both ends of a coax cable run? Or is it only necessary to place in any coax outlet given the gateway will be propagating the MoCA signal throughout the house?
Can someone confirm I'm thinking about this the right way, and whether I'm overlooking a simpler/better alternative to achieve my goal?
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