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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08MQG6T61/ are $99.99 for a two-pack.

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Thanks but these guys appear to be quite expensive up here. Cheapest MoCA units I can find on Amazon.ca hover around $163 C$ a pair. However, in the process, I discoved that DirecTV DECA adapters can be used on "dark coax" for $41 C$ a pair. Whoa! They top out at 100MBit/sec, but that would be plenty for my use case. And I just happen to have a fair bit of this "dark coax" running through my house.

sowbugOP3y ago

Neat hack! If you ever do light up that cable with TV service, remember to unhook the adapters, because they can't coexist with digital cable.

I wonder whether DirecTV engineers approached their management during DECA development and said "we have a problem: this technology we're working on interferes with digital cable," and management replied "uh, yeah, that's not a problem." :)

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MegaDeKay3y ago

sowbugOP3y ago

Neat hack! If you ever do light up that cable with TV service, remember to unhook the adapters, because they can't coexist with digital cable.

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