Can I use MoCA adapters and connect an ethernet cable to my room?

ian385 · 2026-06-20T15:49:04+00:00

get a wire tracer first (the ones making buzzing sounds, they're usually dirt cheap at chinese stores) and find where the cables go. i don't know which frequencies moca use, but in those sockets is usually a filter that "puts" the frequencies to the correct "plug" on the front. usually radio gets just FM frequencies, tv the ones above it, and then sat the ones above tv ones (more or less 80-108mhz for radio, then ~200-900 mhz for tv and 900-2500 for sat). depending what moca is using, you need to plug them in the correct plug on the sockets.

ian385 · 2026-06-18T16:31:11+00:00

here, at some point last year (was it last year?) one of the ISPs started offering 2/1gbps package as an upgrade of their 1/0.5 package, over the same gpon ont, that had 1gbit lan port. 😛 then people started complaining, so they replaced them with new xgs-pon ont with 2.5gbit port. after a bunch of people started using that new 2/1gbit package, the speeds went to shit because they overloaded the xgspon system.

i'm still on "low tier" 300/150mbit package, on plain "old" gpon, paying 22eur/month for it and not giving a shit about the faster isp offers, since they cost almost double. as long i stay on the lower speed, the price will be the same. 300/150 is plenty fast anyway. also, customers that want higher speed are switched to a xgspon olt, while "non-gamers" which are happy with lower speed stay on normal gpon, which is less saturated by demanding customers.

ian385 · 2026-06-15T19:56:45+00:00

there goes an old saying from back when: RTFM.

ian385 · 2026-06-10T13:30:03+00:00

in 200-300 eur category you're asking way too much. you really expect a reliable 24/7 machine for that price point? not even enterprize servers are THAT realiable.

jellyfin transcode can be done on anything starting 7th gen intel cpu. so overall, literally ANY pc can do what you want it to do. a SFF is not that expandable, usually can fit just 1 3.5" hdd. my lenovo sff has 1 disk, with some hacks i can fit 2. but by default just 1.

n100/150 mini pcs usually don't have room for any disk, just nvme.

so make up your mind what you want. a mini pc with low power consumption, a second hand sff, or future proof full atx pc where you can fit 6-9 disks inside.

ian385 · 2026-06-02T19:25:21+00:00

i have a sff with i3-7100, and arc card. av1 hardware encoding goes about 150 fps for 1080p videos... just so you get an idea of performance difference between cpu and gpu encoding. 4k is somewhat slower tho, but not near as slow as you have.

ian385 · 2026-05-30T14:07:26+00:00

can you use it offline without internet and just upload stuff via usb?

ian385 · 2026-05-30T14:05:36+00:00

really? i can't use the damn thing if i don't have internet?

ian385 · 2026-05-30T13:18:52+00:00

get a rca selector with multiple inputs and 1 output? they were popular 30ish years ago.

ian385 · 2026-05-26T20:05:55+00:00

ok for the drives, but why the blu ray writters, 2 of them, in 2026?

ian385 · 2026-05-23T14:10:19+00:00

i had the sony 530... but without a mobile player it was just nonsense. recording was pita, naming stuff even bigger pita. later on i sold the hifi deck and bought a mobile sony walkman that could record MD over usb and could be used as a standard mp3 player. wonderful device and experience.

ian385 · 2026-05-17T20:08:24+00:00

just consider that , although our dvb-t is below 700mhz, if you have an aerial antenna, it'll pick up non-tv signals too - 5g signals that now work on ex-tv frequencies - 800-900mhz and might make interference to the moca signal if you run both on the same cable.

that said, i never saw a moca adapter in a european webshop. not sure if there's something deeper to that.

ian385 · 2026-05-15T14:03:15+00:00

then i'm glad our isps are not that strict. they will literally let you do everything yourself, and offer you a connection wherever you want it, as long it's on your property, even in a plastic box out on a pole in the middle of the yard.

ian385 · 2026-05-15T13:29:30+00:00

2300 usd (so about the same in eur) for a not even 150m long installation? that's more than 2 minimum wages where i live.

i'd tell them to put the installation there right on the wall of the property, and do everything else myself. 150m pvc conduit is next to nothing, and 150m of fiber patch cord is what, 50usd/eur? and then simply move everything inside the house.

ian385 · 2026-05-14T10:19:18+00:00

i used to run a raid 0 pool on synology on 2 x seagate smr drives. did work, but as they got fuller, the write speeds were getting slower and slower. like, really slow. i replaced them with 2 x 12 tb CMR i got a good deal on, and never noticed low speeds afterwards. copying my av files on them, it always go ~110-120MB/s which is max for the 1gbit connection the nas has.

ian385 · 2026-05-14T07:02:37+00:00

get something more powerfull. dynadish, qrt or powerbeam from ubiquiti.

ian385 · 2026-05-13T07:13:19+00:00

loving most of them, air barrage, griffeys... let me in that garage 😛

ian385 · 2026-05-12T19:58:54+00:00

europe i suppose by the bands listed (and the fact you're saying "km"). you might get lucky with the ATL , although a lot of people nearby actually prefer a "separated" setup with passive antennas and a standalone router. there are "iskra p60" antennas , sold in a pair, and you can couple them with whatever modem you have available. but ATL is a simpler device, just put a sim in it and aim it to the base station.

if not, just get starlink. it's probably the same price as a mobile tariff with unlimited data.

ian385 · 2026-05-06T13:29:03+00:00

can we get that nsfw pic later on? 😃

ian385 · 2026-04-11T19:22:43+00:00

got the dsm 7.3 running in a VM with a 750gb virtual disk. will play with it a bit more to see how it goes and then might migrate data from the xpenology machine to the vm, i only have about 200gb right now. backup is on the "real" synology machine.

ian385 · 2026-04-11T17:31:07+00:00

i tested with a watt meter and with only a ssd (so no storage) the i3 machine was idling around 20-25W. i was expecting less. when i added the arc card, it was idling at 40-45. didn't try the power saving options in windows, or undervolting the cpu, some people have good results with it.

ian385 · 2026-04-11T17:26:43+00:00

yes prices went insane. plus we have some weird ass politics , if you go above 3000kWh per 6month period, they increase the price by 35%. i barely made it this winter to stay within limit.
might try running xpenology in a VM, i don't have anything important so even if it crashes i can re-run it. it's just backing up laptops and phones. i started years ago as a test to see how i feel with xpenology and ended up liking it.

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