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CM600 & MOCA Adapter
How do I wire a CM600 Netgear cable modem to work with Actiontec bonded MOCA adapters?
Is it COAX from wall to adapter; then COAX from adapter to modem, then ethernet from modem to router, and ...
> How do I wire a CM600 Netgear cable modem to work with Actiontec
> bonded MOCA adapters?
"work" to solve what problem? What are you trying to connect to
what? Where is the co-ax cable? What is "wall"?
Presumably, you have some kind of co-ax connection to your ISP, which
should go (somehow) to the co-ax port on the CM600. Other than that, I
have no idea what you want to do.
Sorry; I have xfinity coming in via coax. I have my cm600 modem on one floor. It's connected to an Airport router / wifi access point. I want to use the coax in the house to transmit internet instead of using the wifi. So I am thinking of getting a pair of Actiontec MOCA adapters to do that. I'm just not sure of the wiring. I've seen two configurations: one without a splitter and one with. I'm trying to dicern which to use. Blue lines are coax; red are ethernet.
> [...] I want to use the coax in the house to transmit internet instead
> of using the wifi. [...]"transmit internet" to what? Neither of your two configurations
makes any sense to me. Why would there be a closed loop of any kind?
What's a "POE"? Where does Xfinity appear?> [...] I have xfinity coming in via coax. I have my cm600 modem on one
> floor. It's connected to an Airport router / wifi access point. [...]Ok. The Xfinity co-ax must go to the CM600 modem, whence Ethernet to
the router. Any Internet connections must come from the router. The
router end of such a connection must be an Ethernet connection. That
could be a standard twisted-pair Ethernet cable, or it could be an
equivalent chain like:Ethernet --- MoCA_adapter --- co-ax (long) --- MoCA_adapter --- Ethernet
I'm not a MoCA expert, but, so far as I know, the co-ax which joins a
set of MoCA adapters is strictly a directly-connected tree, using simple
T-adapters (not TV-type splitters) if any co-ax branching is desired.
Typically, it's a simple point-to-point link, with no branching. See,for example:
https://www.actiontec.com/moca/
Instead of a simple MoCA adapter at the non-router end of the co-ax,
you could attach a MoCA wireless-network extender, which would be
roughly equivalent to:--- MoCA_adapter --- Ethernet --- ordinary_wireless-network_extender
Also, some routers (not from Netgear?) offer a MoCA port along with
the usual LAN Ethernet ports. That would be equivalent to an external
MoCA adapter connected to a LAN Ethernet port on that router.A MoCA vendor might be a better source of information of how to
employ/deploy MoCA.Do you still need help? I have MoCA adapters set up with my router and they work great. I go from wall to spliiter, then from splitter to modem and adapter separately, then ethernert from router (not modem) to adapter. Hope this helps.