Seeking Advice & Opinions

The current 4-tuner models can act as MoCA bridges, and the Mini's support MoCA out of the box. Assuming you are able to get Ethernet from your router to the 4-tuner, you wouldn't need any MoCA adapters. The Ethernet would feed the 4-tuner, and then putting the 4-tuner in "Bridge Mode" would then establish a MoCA network that the other Mini's could use around the house via a coax connection between the Mini and your coax outlet at the wall at various TVs.

Alternatively, if you can not get Ethernet to the 4-tuner, you'd need one MoCA adapter at your router. You'd run Ethernet from your router to the adapter, and then run coax from the adapter to the nearest coax wall outlet, and that would then give you MoCA connectivity to all devices attached to coax throughout the home.

Finally, assuming the new DVR hardware is equal to the current 4-tuner models for "Bridge Mode," simply replace "4-tuner" with "new DVR" above and it's all the same.

 

http://www.tivo.com/mytivo/howto/moca.html

Have you reviewed this page from Tivo on MOCA? The four tuner model can act as a bridge.

 

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That connection makes no sense whatsoever. What kind of internet service do you have?

Regardless, from this review of the TiVo Mini:

"Unlike the TiVo Premiere with MoCA, the Mini will not function as a MoCA-to-Ethernet bridge."

 

Is your current setup working OK?

 

No, this was indirectly answered above, and I think is clarified at Tivo's page.

 

I use both a Moxi and TiVo. Both have their good and bad traits. From what I was told, the 2 tuner TiVo doesn't have the MoCA capabilities that the 4 tuner models have out of the box, which is why it requires two adapters. From reading the website, if you are going for a 4 tuner model I think it's all included and you wouldn't need any adapters at all, however you may need to use a filter which you already mentioned. According to TiVo's website you would need to put the filter on the cable line coming into the house so either at the ground block outside or before the first splitter inside. http://www.tivo.com/mytivo/howto/moca.html#securemoca http://www.tivo.com/assets/pdfs/mytivo/POEFilterInstallation.pdf

Oh yeah and welcome to the TiVo Family!

 

If all of the boxes can get to the Internet and see each other, I don't see any need for the TiVo to act as a bridge. You don't have a wired Ethernet that you need to bridge to the MOCA. You could split the cable before it goes to the modem and connect the Mini there via Coax. The only thing you might want to add is connect the Ethernet out of that adapter to one of the switch ports of the router.

There is that, plus I think that the POE filter improves the MOCA signal since it reflects it back. I'm pretty sure it goes at the initial POE of the cable, before any distribution splitters to the various outlets.

Finally, I hope that someone who knows MOCA better than I do (wouldn't be hard ) will cut in here if I have made some egregious error . I have never actually used MOCA and am basing my advice on what I have found on the net (no, not just the TCF).

 

There has to be a splitter somewhere. How else would the other outlets be fed?

 

Here's a diagram of how a house can be wired for coax:



Note, that if you have more than 1 outlet, the incoming coax line MUST be split. For you, since you have an outlet in each room, it's a matter of finding out where the splitter(s) are (the connection center in the diagram).

 

The outside Comcast box is likely just a single cable coming to your home and a single line going into the garage. The split happens somewhere inside. What's on the inside of the garage? I would try to follow the outside Comcast box "through" the wall into the garage and try to find where the line heads next. Do you have a basement?

Regardless, if you could get access to the Comcast box, that should be a fine place for the POE Filter. The concerns would be "can you get inside the box?" and that Comcast probably doesn't want you messing around in their box.

 

Back when I had a house, the split was right where the cable from the pole go to the house. Most of the wiring to the various outlets ran on the outside wall of the house.

If I were you, I would call Comcast. Since you have internet with them, they might be willing to install the POE filter for you at no charge. Who knows, there might already be one in place.

 

FWIW at my house the cable is split outside several times right before it enters the house. Then inside in the basement it is split again a couple of times. Fortunately the splitters inside the house were in the ceiling of the unfinished basement.

Also, the cable was not installed by the cable company, but by whoever the home builder contracted with. If this is newer construction you might be able to talk to the build and ask them who did it or your neighbors.

(Or did you say it was Comcast who did the install?)

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Read above again. So in the scenario I presented, our cable company came out and hooked up to the already existing wire that the builder installed.