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Experts, help me hard wire a more reliable connection to my MR/MS80 mesh system for my home office.
Really hoping for some help. I will try to give all relevant details! My home office is located in a small studio building about 100' from the rear of the house. I have a mesh system using one M...
Thank you everyone, really appreciate all the useful help and it's solved! 🎉 (1) Yes, the old Actiontec MoCA adapter was a subpar companion to the goCOAX adapter. Happily, I found my second goCOAX, so have the same brand/model on each end of the coax. No splitters involved. (2) It helped to get an ethernet adapter for my laptop that actually worked, to check things. 🙄 I found this out while making sure the adapters were working. Fortunately, we had another lying around. (3) Once I confirmed that I had internet through the MoCA, I chose to set up my extra MR80 router in AP mode on the same network and unplugged the existing daisy-chained studio satellite. If I ever run into interference issues, I'll backhaul the satellite instead or, worst case, use MoCA as a dedicated ethernet connection but, who knows, maybe I can go nuts and put the satellite in the tool shed, even further back in the yard. — Thank you, again, for the quick and helpful responses.
As you are probably aware,
- Connecting the MS80 satellite to the MoCA link keeps every device in the network in the same IP subnet. (both house and studio)
- Connecting the MR80 router, even in Access Point (AP) mode, has created a separate IP subnet and a separate WiFi network. Even if this MR80 defines WiFi with identical SSID/password as the primary network, they remain two separate networks. Devices will not roam seamlessly between them. Of course, with a distance of 100 ft. between house and studio, there is a good change that any mobile device will 'drop' one WiFi connection as it moves and then connect to the other WiFi without the user noticing. What could happen is the device could detect the 5G WiFi signal fading away, switch to 2.4G, and remain connected at 2.4G. The mobile device might appear to have poor performance until the user says, "oh, s**t, turns off WiFi, then turns WiFi back on again." This is the reason companies introduced 'mesh' WiFi as an improvement over the use of WiFi extenders.
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