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self hosted newbie question about moCA router (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello and good evening self hosters! so i recently new to self hosting, i just installed my CM3588 DIY NAS with a bunch of services which is very addicting!

but i digress, so i recently found out today that we pay $11 a month to rent our router for our house. Which i personally think is ridiculous! So i am looking into buying to own, not renting to burn money. However the router seems to get internet from the ISP through moCA which looking at router that support moCA are rather limiting in speeds and very expensive. So my query for this fine, fine community is if i were to buy a coax/moCA adapter that then coverts it to Ethernet and then plug it into my router and and then by proxy my access points. would it work, wifi 6E looks super nice and there are very few options that are very pricey for modem/router combos that support moCA.

I am open to alternatives and ideas, and please correct me if i made any mistakes on terminally or my diagram

thanks folks!

Edit--- my current router is a ARRIS Surfboard TG3452 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Voice Gateway Modem Router with 802.11ac Wi-Fi & MoCA 2.0

So

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Something is odd here, who is your ISP? I've only seen MoCA used to create a network for cable/satellite STBs through the coax in the building, or for a phone company connection creating a MoCA bridge to provide broadband from a demarcation point in an apartment building where only a phone line is available in lieu of DSL. What is the make of your existing router?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I know Google Fiber generation 1 setups were Fiber to the home (to a "Fiber Jack") with a provided router that had 1 gigabit Ethernet port and a coax/MoCA output. Then each TV receiver box got its connectivity via MoCA from the router (most of the customer homes were already set up for cable to any area there was a TV) and put out 100mb ethernet from each of those endpoints (these also doubled as Wifi APs).

What I've never heard of is an ISP offering a MoCA coax to your house and you having only a MoCA receiver. Supposedly the max distance between MoCA devices is about 300 feet.

Seems more likely the person asking the question actually just has a cable modem and could put their own router downstream of it if they wanted?