![]() Because of the location where the service provider installs the gateway, modem or router, the user typically ends up with the greatest speed in the wrong room, which is what the Actiontec MoCA 2.0-to-11ac extender is all about. Unless the router is in the same room as a 4K TV, a 4-K capable iPhone or any other device, which is rarely the case, they can underperform. The 5.0 MHz WiFi band offers high speeds but only at short distances – when the receiving device, TV, smartphone or tablet – is near the router the 2.4 MHz band covers greater distances, but at much slower speeds. As a result, broadband service providers are being hammered by service calls from unhappy subscribers who think something is wrong with their broadband service, says Kirchman. The reason that WiFi extenders are needed is because the 11ac version of WiFi, not even in its most supercharged version, has not turned out to be the whole home wireless network that many had hoped it would. “That could only be feasible in a home that’s shaped like a cylinder.” “It’s a myth that the 11ac version of WiFi is sufficient for home with 10,000 square feet,” Kirchman said. Coax-based extenders have to contend with only one other signal in the coax wiring – the TV channels – and MoCA has a decade of experience co-existing with those. Powerline-to-WiFi extenders have to deal with the limitations of noisy electrical wires to get signals to the remote WiFi extender. That can cut performance as does the fact that an already underperforming WiFi signal is being sent to the remote extender. What are the differences between Actiontec’s MoCA-to- WiFi and other WiFi extenders? WiFi-to-WiFi extenders that appeared on the market several years ago use the same antennae to both receive data from the router and to transmit to WiFi devices. And itsįirst and main objective is to provide the fastest WiFi possible.” Lesley Kirchman, director of corporate marketing at Actiontec, said there are two reasons the adapter performs so well, “Actiontec designs its own products from the ground up rather than using cookie cutter reference designs that chipmakers hand out to all equipment makers. MoCA 2.0 enables the WiFi extender to receive data at speeds of up to 1 Gbps.Ĭoax is widely acknowledged to be a much better carrier of data than powerline, because there is none of powerline’s noise, although with a complete lack of coax in Europe, powerline is likely to undertake this role there anyway. The adapter uses Quantenna’s 4×4 11ac WiFi chips with beam-forming, which many consider the fastest available. Coax-to- WiFi approaches Ethernet-to-WiFi in performance.Īctiontec is launching a retail version of its MoCA-based coax-to-WiFi adapter priced at $149 for the remote unit – which provides user available WiFi bandwidth up to 1 Gbps and can support multiple extenders connected to the same router. Wireline to WiFi is often better, faster, more reliable than WiFi-to- WiFi. In the real world there are two types of WiFi extenders – those that use WiFi to connect to a remote extender and those that use cables – powerline, coax or Ethernet – to connect to a remote extender.
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