#Home cable moca installation nj how to#
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But my cable wants to charge me more money to upgrade the slaves. If my 'slaves' were more up to date, I would only need a two way split to modem and main DVR box. My internet signal was much stronger since there were no unnecessary splits. When I was all done I had one line that entered the house, a single 4 way splitter that went to 3 televisions and a modem. It took hours and hours to pull it all out so that it could all be replaced. At one point it was plugged in to some kind of amplifier.

There was hundreds of RG-59 coaxial and splitters everywhere and a MoCa bridge. The point of entry had obviously been changed more than once. It was four deep in places and just ran around in circles. I couldn't believe how much cable was in my house. They all then feed into the house in the cellar but I haven't quite figured out where they all come together. Yes, where the cables feed into the rooms there is your standard coax end. On top of their fee you must do a lot of work yourself which probably involves renting equipment. It is much easier than burying secondary electric wires which will cost you at a minimum of $1000 fee for the electric utility.

#Home cable moca installation nj how to#

There are youtube videos with suggestions on how to drive pipes under a sidewalk or driveway without having to tear them up with a jackhammer.īurying cable can often be done with a good trowel and less than $50 in cable. It also means less issue with branches in a thunderstorm. If you are in the process of cleaning up wires hanging from your house, it might be a simple matter to do this at the same time. The burial grade can be buried in the lawn without a PVC conduit. The electric wires are much higher up on a utility pole so you don't get electrocuted by touching the utility poles. Usually it is connected at the utility pole with a regular F-type connector. A lot of people bury the cable coming in from the utility pole.

I have noticed that the customer service department at my cable company says that you have to have coaxial to every television, but the technicians are usually smart enough to know that is not true with the equipment that is relatively new (2014 or later).īurial Grade RG-6 is about $10-$12 for 50 feet (about 25% more than regular grade). The practical reason for this standard is many homes are already wired with coaxial and they don't have ethernet. It is called MoCa or 'Multimedia Over Cable'. There is a way to wire those slaves using coaxial cable. This problem is not very expensive as you can get a bigger router, but just be aware that your cable company probably doesn't have one to rent to you. If you have a lot of televisions and a computer hooked up you may want to use more than the 4 ports. When you hook it up this way, you may run out of ports on your router. Sometimes the slaves can be hooked up wirelessly, but the connection is not as reliable. Modern equipment with a central tuning only requires that the 'slave boxes' be connected with CAT5e or 'ethernet' wires which are about the same thickness as phone wires. The CableCards from the cable company can only handle 6 tuners, so you don't normally go above that.

#Home cable moca installation nj tv#

When they are not being used to watch live TV they are available for the DVR. Most modern systems put up to 6 tuners in the mast box, and the 'slaves' around the house use one of those 6 tuners when they are being used. The TiVo box that our cable installed in our house in 2012 requires a coaxial cable to go to the 'slave' box in each room, but that is because the 'slaves' have tuners. This standard is only for analog voice so you are better off replacing or destroying the wires even though they still work. The way you remember this is that there are two holidays: Christmas and Halloween. It's like a home wired with 'station wire' for the phones, the first pair is green (tip) and red (ring) the second is black (tip) and yellow (ring). I would rip it out especially if it RG-59 coaxial. Before I make a mistake, I'm trying to think of reasons why I wouldn't want to do that.

We're going to have the house repainted soon and I think it's time to rip it all down.