ScreenBeam ECB6250S02 Network Adapter Add-On Only MoCA 2.5 - Faster

Given the minimal discussion of this topic, I found it pretty difficult to figure out how to set up my MOCA network when I set everything up as instructed and nothing worked. I literally had three separate Comcast technicians look at my new house to troubleshoot issues, and all three told me that MOCA is BS, makes no sense conceptually, and is just a marketing gimmick to sell devices like this. They were all 100% wrong, and as I write this, I have a functional MOCA throughout my house. But I hit some a few frustrating speed bumps along the way before I got my system up and running. In short, MOCA is a plug-and-play solution for using coaxial cable outlets in a room to provide a hardline ethernet internet connection. You can plug it directly into computers/TVs in those rooms in the same manner that you'd plug them directly into your router with a hardline connection, or can alternatively use it for WiFi extenders to expand coverage throughout the house. MOCA is significantly (think 2-3x) faster and more reliable than WiFi. If you're happy with your WiFi, no need to bother with this setup, but I'm glad that I did. In my experience, these adapters themselves are trivial to set up. You plug in the power, connect the coaxial cable from the wall to the adapter, and run an ethernet cable from the adapter to whatever you want to put on the Internet. That's it. The hard part is finding and eliminating the network bottlenecks in the system. My biggest issue was finding all of the cable splitters in my new house and installing the correct replacements, since the right kind of splitter for MOCA (i.e., splitters allowing high enough frequencies in the MOCA range such as up to 2300 MHz) are not standard equipment provided by ISPs like Comcast and need to be purchased separately. This will not work otherwise. Long story short, I had a couple different splitters hidden in different locations in my new house, and until I found them all, the MOCA system was entirely nonfunctional. I'll also note that I'm using an Xfinity XB-7 gateway (modem/router combo) with built-in MOCA support, which means I didn't need to use one of these adapters with my router. If you're in a similar boat and have a MOCA-capable router, make sure you actually enable MOCA mode on the router. You can look up how to do that online (e.g., search for how to change the settings on your Xfinity router). All of the above is, of course, just talking about my experience with MOCA generally. I'm not in a position to compare different adapters, but this product does exactly what it says it will do and provides high-speed internet all over the house via the coaxial outlets. That's a 5/5 in my book.

Love these devices. I own 3 of the 2.5Gbps. I have a single MoCA connected in the basement to my data center switch, another on the 1st floor connected to a wifi AP, and another on the 2nd floor connected to a switch in my office. These devices were a no brainer to setup - simply plug and play. Only caveat being that they will add around a 3ms ping time. That's it. Otherwise just as good as regular CAT6 on the throughput. I opted for the 2.5Gb/s adapters even though I'm only running 1Gb/s switches for potential network upgrades in the future. The speedtests are machine to machine, but these devices will maximize your WAN circuit with similar results. I'm not a gamer, but these devices are perfect for remote work, Zoom, FaceTime, streaming etc-- 0 issues! I can imagine if you're a hardcore gamer the 3ms latency may be a turnoff, but that's for you to decide. Super good value for the money and saved a ton of time fishing cables through drywall.

Works for a little while but every time I shut my computer off the internet goes back to saying “unidentified network.” Customer service was unable to help.

I attached this to the old coxial cable coming thorugh the wall, the coxial cable was too old and not even cat 5 so was not expecting any good speed, this connection was very easy and once I powered this device the signal started showing internet and I hooked for TV, the thing I noticed is the speed It gave was steady throughout the day like 125 mbps upload and 95 download, conpare to wifi was giving variable speed during each time I tested between 45mbps to 75 mbps upload and 25mbps to 50 mbps download max. This device worked well to keep all steady connection and pulled a good speed put of old coaxial.

I have three of these - a pair purchased in 2021 and a single one bought in April of 2023. My installation is pretty simple, three nodes on dedicated RG6 coax with a MoCA rated splitter. No cable modem on the coax, just the three nodes. One has a gaming PC, one an Apple TV and one into a gigabit managed switch. The two originals have worked without much issue since installation. They require a reboot every so often, roughly once every 6 months, but they’re generally reliable enough. The third and newest adapter stopped working after 13 months. No amount of resets or troubleshooting seems to make any difference. I think they’re good enough when running twister pair Ethernet is not an option, and they’re certainly better than wireless for my use. Very easy install, completely plug and play.

Want to do a bunch of cable fishing and run Ethernet in your home? No you don't. Already got coax cable wiring in your home? Maybe you do! This is the gizmo for you. There are others, maybe they work too, but I use this one and it's great. Using it with my fiber Internet, I get full, honest to goodness gigabit (like, speedtest.net says 980 down, 970 up) all the way to a back cottage where I have an office. Wifi won't even do that next to the access point, and don't even talk to me about powerline networking. You can use the MPS thing for security, but I'm not worried about people tapping my coax (and I don't have cable TV service) so I just plugged it in, connected the Ethernet and off it goes. No config, no tuning, no dorky little web interface, just a pure torrent of beautiful data. Note, I use this in point to point mode (two of them connected by a few hundred feet of coax), haven't tried multipoint with splitters, but I hear that works great too.

I bought this unit to add to an existing MoCA system so I could switch my Roku to wired instead of wireless. It took me longer to figure out which coax cable to use (and I used a coax finder tool) than it did to install this unit. So easy to install and it just works.

I have cat5 where I live but not in every room; I'm using 2 actiontecs to setup a moca network for my xbox and tivos. The connection is great, decent throughput and no flapping or any intermittent issues, except every so often - a few days, weeks, but fairly frequently - the coax network fails. There is no way to troubleshoot this - the rest of my network(s) work great, but the coax connection fails. I try rebooting all the device individually, verifying they are showing up on my networking configs, etc. The only thing that fixes it is unplugging the Actiontec on either end of the line and plugging it back in. This is a giant PITA since these things are literally a black box. My network doesn't see them, and when they fail there is still a little green light on the black box saying everything is cool. I don't know if it's the cable tv frequency shift that's causing it to fail randomly, or what. I wish I could figure it out, but I can't. But it works as long as I reboot it. Wish I had something that was as reliable as my Fios MOCA router (sad to say), because it never had this issue. I got rid of my Fios router for this, and only use this for the MOCA component I needed to replace, and it fails periodically.

Tested and this works as advertised. Used to connect coaxial cable to ethernet for my tv.

Very reliable connectivity and bidirectional speeds, for those with coax in the house, it beats using powerline adapters by a mile.

Just plug it in and it'll work. At my home there are no Ethernet outlets, but coax is in every room. This device works perfectly, delivers high speed and has no issues.

I bought this adapter to extend the ethernet connection in my daughter's room for her online schooling. I works perfectly except that the seller did not include the coax splitter as mentioned in the product page. Luckily there is an old splitter in the basement comm box that still working. I could have given a 5 star review.

You need this to convert coaxial cable into an Ethernet cable. I haven’t measured the signal loss but good enough for household use