goCoaxMoCA 2.5 Adapter with 2.5GbE Ethernet Port. MoCA 2.5. 1x 2.5GbE Port. Provide 2.5Gbps Bandwidth with existing coaxial Cables. White(2-Pack, MA2500D)

This is by far the best, and most reliable way to use your homes existing wiring to get fast internet somewhere that's otherwise hard to reach. With the 2.5gbps versions of these adapters I'm able to push super fast speeds upstairs to my offices with no overhead compared to wiring up via ethernet. These adapters have been a life changer. No more dealing with crappy wifi, or mesh networks. They are super fast, reliable, stable connections. And they're super fast and easy to setup. If you're not all that concerned with a smart kid tampering with settings on them, you can just plug and play after a little work to block the MoCA band from escaping your home.

I have Verizon fiber in my house that's currently being sent over cable, but I had a big dead spot on my second floor where there was no Verizon router. I bought a third party router that was advertised as compatible with Verizon, and hoped this adapter would be a solution to connect my Verizon signal with the new router, using unused coaxial cable that was already wired to the second floor. I was really worried, based on various forums I visited, that this would be a complicated process that would involve changing settings on my Verizon equipment, new router, and who knows what else. Boy, I couldn't have been more wrong. I located the other end of the unused coax in my basement and used a splitter to connect it with one of the Verizon lines. I then connected the upstairs cable end to this adapter, connected the adapter to the new router, and literally without having to do anything else or change any other settings, I got a perfect connection and can now connect devices upstairs with my high speed internet (I did have to click through the new connection process in the router software, but that was a breeze). Phew! The only difference was that I had to provide a different network name than the one downstairs, which was no big deal. Couldn't be happier.

I'll start this review off by saying I'm super happy with my purchase. Setup took me, an IT professional, about an hour, but that will vary based on your local wiring. My biggest recommendation for any one purchasing is to do some homework first on setting up MoCa and what roadblocks you may run into. Below is a summary of my existing setup and a high level overview of the steps I took to get setup, along with my final thoughts. I include some basic latency testing and speed testing information near the bottom. For anyone interested in the MoCA splitter and filter I used, I have included links below.Background: I use an Asus AiMesh Wi-Fi system in a house built in the late 1800s. Basically every room was added on at some point by a person with some free time and spare lumber, so nothing is to code, or even remotely associated with any other room in the house. I've wanted to run Ethernet throughout the house since I moved in, but due to the inherent challenges of multiple, hard-to-access crawl spaces and no attic, I was left with very little options outside of my office other than a spotty mesh Wi-Fi systemMy goal:Having just upgraded to fiber, I had a house full of unused coax cable. I wanted to send Ethernet over this, and effectively "wire" in my access points. However, I wanted to ensure that if a future owner or myself wanted to return to copper/cable internet, that it wouldn't impact this setup.-- What I bought:- 2-pack of goCoax- 1 pack BAMF Coax MOCA-compatible Coax Splitterhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B017T9KF1S- 1 pack PPC MoCA POE filterhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SLD9QPH-- How I accomplished it:- OUTSIDE:First, I had to crack open the Spectrum box on the outside of my house. Inside, there were a bunch of disconnected coax runs and a single filter connection coming from the outside line to my internet line, along with another "filter"-type device that had a ground line connected to it. I removed their filter and ground connection, and replaced it with the BAMF 4 way splitter on the "In" connection. I also connected the PPC filter in between the outside line and the BAMF filter (so it looked like line from road -> PPC filter -> BAMF "in" port on 4 way splitter). Finally, and this is super important, I connected the ground wire I had removed from the Spectrum filter/bracket to the new BAMF splitter, which has two spots, one on each side, to connect the ground wire. While a ground wire isn't 100% required, it's very important to preserve your equipment.From there, I connected all of the coax runs I wanted to use to the "Out" ports on the BAMF splitter. I then made sure everything fit in the box and closed it up.- INSIDE:Took a two foot piece of Coax and connected it to the coax wall jack where my access point was. Powered up the goCoax unit, connected the two foot piece of coax to it, and ran the Ethernet line to my access point's WAN port.Where my cable modem was originally hooked up and my primary router was, I hooked up the other goCoax box, powered it up, and ran the Ethernet cable to a LAN port on my primary router.Power cycled my access point and waited.Within a few moments, the Ethernet and MoCA lights both lit up on both goCoax devices, and I ran some ping and speed tests. Was getting my max internet speed at the access point, with zero dropped packets. Pinging another device on my network, I averaged 3-4ms of latency with no jumps. Moved a large file between devices at 100MBps, not quite 1Gbps speeds but way, way faster than my Wi-Fi had been. That access point is now getting the fastest speeds I've ever had in that part of the house with super low latency, and I can use it as a jumping off point for additional Ethernet runs.-- SUMMARY:For $60 a piece, these devices are amazing. They required zero setup in terms of configuration, all plug and play, and the most time consuming part was prepping the existing coax setup in my home by adding the MoCA splitter and filtering the outside line. These two steps for essential for ensuring the coax was actually tied together, and that the MoCA signal was not escaping into the outside line. I have some other coax runs in my home and I'll absolutely be buying more of these goCoax units to equip there. I was skeptical at first, but now I'm a total believe in this product. If you have a house full of coax cable and want to put it to good use, this is absolutely the product to buy!

This MoCA network adapter is suberp! This is actually the second GoCoax 2.5 adapter I have purchased on Amazon, the first being in 2021. The first one I purchased has performed flawlessly for four years. For those of you who don't know, MoCA stands for Multimedia Over Cable Alliance, and MoCA devices like this allow a user to extend broadband internet over coax cable runs. Lots of older homes don't have Cat5 cabling built in, but a lot of them have coax to most or all rooms. With a MoCA adapter, a homeowner can connect internet from their router to a MoCA adapter, put it on coax throughout their home, and then extract it at a place in their home with another MoCA adapter. I currently have four MoCA adapters in my home, after adding this second GoCoax 2.5 unit. BTW, the 2.5 refers to the bandwidth. When you link two MoCA 2.5 units like this together, you have the potential for up to 2.5 GB of data transfer speed. In the case of this MoCA adapter, I'm using it to provide backhaul capability for two router mesh systems in our house, so that they don't have to be linked by a wireless signal anymore. So if you have an older home that doesn't have built-in Cat5 cabling for internet data transfer, consider the use of MoCA if you have coax cabling instead! The attached picture shows my second GoCoax MoCA box connected to my second mesh router system, which is about 65' away from the host mesh router.

Great product, except for one odd thing. The ethernet port of the product outputs 2.5GB; however, the included cable is 5e, so it's only capable of 1GB. Other than that minor flaw, I love these things for my older house that doesn't have ethernet anywhere. I purchased some Amazon basics Cat 6 cable and all is good. 5 stars if they had included a proper cable.

These were very easy to set up, and the speed claims are accurate. I needed to get a run from the ISP's modem to my router, and this works perfectly. I've been running this for over a month, and there have been no issues.