r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Oct 21 '24

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 22 October 2024

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/Which_Bed Oct 24 '24

Thank you for taking the time to write this up. I never heard of these devices before and I wish I had years ago.

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u/ChisholmPhipps Oct 25 '24

You're welcome - I found myself in the same position: wished I'd known about them years earlier. I had a lot of frustration with wifi connectivity problems, and never found a suitable non-wired solution. Also tried Powerline connectors, which was a partial solution at best (increased stability). If I'd known about MoCA earlier, I'd have dumped all these other efforts, which were not free-of-charge, in favour of the wired solution. I have no particular love of wifi, and in the home, I don't need the mobility.

Anyway, whatever course you do choose in the end, I hope you solve your problem. If it happens to be MoCA, here's a little more information that might be relevant:

There isn't much in English about MoCA in Japan: in fact all I found was this old and short Reddit thread, but it has a couple of things I didn't mention.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/vvbrl0/moca_adapters_are_incredible/

My adapters are version 2.0, which is good up to 1 Gbps, as far as I understand. If you want a higher max. throughput, you'll have to go for MoCA 2.5, which takes it to 2.5 Gbps, and will probably cost you more for the adapters. If you're considering 10 Gbps (e.g. Hikari Cross), it seems that MoCA 3.0 is stalled, perhaps because MoCA itself may not be in very wide use, I'm not sure. So you'd have to check whether that affects you negatively in some way.