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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by greggyb on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:22PM (#34285171)

For home use, this is likely to be fine. MOCA operates as a broadcast network, though, so all bandwidth is shared among all connected nodes. The performance characteristics are closer to an old hub than to a switched network.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by basch on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:48AM (#34289803)

but its 2.5Gb. Each ethernet port is only 1Gb. You'd need have what, three pairs, all simultaneously trying to transfer their nearly their full 1Gb to saturate 2.5Gb.

If you have 5 or less, it shouldn't be an issue.

But yes, it would not necessarily work great in something in like an apartment.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by greggyb on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:31PM (#34293681)

Ethernet (at least oveR twisted pairs) is a full duplex transmission medium, so two devices should be able to more than saturate the MOCA broadcast network.

Additionally, >1Gbps is starting to become common on consumer hardware.

Again, it is probably not going to be a concern for most home networks, and MOCA should still be better than mesh networks or powerline ethernet.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by basch on Sunday January 08, 2023 @11:59AM (#34300741)

I suppose in theory, yes. I'm not sure how often, in my home network, I would have full duplex 1Gbps transmission, unless I've accidently caused a loopback.

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Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 by greggyb on Sunday January 08, 2023 @12:31PM (#34301064)

We agree.

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