Hitron HTEM5 MoCA 2.5 Adapter Kit (2-Pack) | 2.5Gbps Ethernet Over Coax | Multi-Gig Wired Backhaul for Mesh WiFi, Streaming & Gaming | Includes 2 Adapters, Coax & Ethernet Cables

This set is great and solved a major problem in my home! Now I can get a solid link to a far corner of the house which neither mesh nor power line could do. I expected higher throughput but I'm convinced it is the house wiring. Still, it is good enough and most importantly solid and stable. It was super easy setup, connect cables and plug it in, everything else is automatic. Great value for the money. This works like a champ, highly recommend!

Such a life saver! We just bought a house and both have custom PC builds that need ethernet connections. Originally we shared an office but now each have an office on 2 different floors. We use the 1.2 gig xfinity package and I was worried I wouldn't have a good connection with my office being the farthest from the router.Setup was interesting and I now know a lot about MoCA and ethernet. We had the xfinity tech come out to fix the cables outside and put a box over them (which he didn't) and he had no idea what I was talking about with this setup.When you get these, if you do a similar setup like I have also get a really good PoE filter for the main cable to the main splitter, a solid weather proof splitter for the PoE to the other coax (mine is rated 2.5 GHz 5-2500 MHz), a splitter for the main coax that connects to the modem, super short coax cables, cable ties, and a tester for the coax cable connecting to the second adapter.It took some finagling initially but it works really well! We both play video games and are software engineers and neither of us have noticed any lag. The tests I run regularly give back solid results so definitely worth the buy!

Easy and works like a charm. Avoid any splitters or dead ends on your coax setup to get max speed. I used them to get my WiFi mesh system boosted and it all worked swimmingly.

Review October 2024*** ORIGINAL PROBLEM ***My home office on the other side of the house was getting slow Wifi, even on mesh network.*** BEFORE ***I have 1,000Mbit down, 600up fiber to the house (FTTH) from AltaFiber in Ohio.Before installing this device, I had Google Wifi with 4 points (1 main point for internet, 3 mesh points). My personal laptop in my home office was getting 50Mbit down using Wifi connection.*** SETUP ***My setup now. Fiber from the street running inside to my basement >> ONT from AltaFiber >> Ethernet cable >> Google Wifi router >> Ethernet cable >> NETGEAR switch #1 >> Ethernet cable >> THIS MoCA adapter DEVICE #1 >> coax cable through the walls >> THIS MoCA adapter DEVICE #2 >> ethernet >> NETGEAR switch #2 (for 2 laptops) >> Ethernet >> 2 laptops ethernet ports*** RESULTS ***After installing this, I am getting between 750Mbit to 900Mbit down, and 550+ Mbit up!!! This is data from several tests using the speed test side "fast dot com". Significant improvement!!!!*** A few notes ***When you do this, make sure to turn off the WIFI on your computer to force it to use the wired connection.Also the device here includes some CAT6 ethernet cables. I recommend CAT6, and not CAT5e, and definitely NOT CAT5 without the e. CAT6 just gives it more "breathing room".I had to get a female to female coax adapter from a big box home improvement store, go into the basement and connect the 2 coax cables together that were hanging from the walls above (1 from family room where my router is, 1 from my home office). This enables the connection between the 2 rooms.I did buy a coax tester from a big box home improvement store for ~$30 and fortunately, not only did the tool work great, it showed my cox to my rooms were in good shape. I would have been out of luck if it wasn't. So I did test that before I bought this.My 2 NETGEAR switches are NETGEAR 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS305)My GOOGLE Wifi mesh devices (all 4) are Google WIFI point gen 1 from 2017, before they called them Nest Wifi. For my laptops now, I only use 1 now for my access to the internet from ONT fiber. I still use the other 3 for google Wifi points for all my handheld devices. But my laptops are now "wired".My house was built in 2002 and the coax cables are original to the house. I have no idea if there are different coax cable "speeds" like we have with ethernet (e.g., cat6, 5e, etc.).I do not use cable TV service from the cable company (Time Warner Spectrum) or the telephone company (Altafiber), so for that I had it easy. I cut the cord in 2013 and don't have traditional cable TV service. Because of that, I didn't have to worry about filters or whatever.Overall, so far, great product. I hope they last for a few years.

I need to move my Ubiquiti wireless AP closer to the middle of the house. I have ATT fiber and it terminates in a room on the side of the house. I had access to an RG6 cable that I could use to move the AP. I ended up connecting the ATT router to the Unifi UCG Ultra controller. When I finished I could get close to the rated speed for download, but uploads struggled. Looked like a link mismatch issue.. As it turns out the Unifi hardware could do the 2.5 but the ATT (on one of the lan ports) could not. I went into the ATT router config and forced 1G full and did the same thing on the Unifi device. The ethernet lights on the HTEM5 now both indicate 1G (vs starting it one 2.5G and one 1G) and the speed is now close to the rated ISP speed. The actual MOCA link was always showing blue 2.5.So long and short.. there is probably room for improvement in link negotiation, but it is now working great..

Works well when its caveats are figured out. I am connected with 1Gb from Spectrum and getting the same with speed tests through my coax network from the basement to the 2nd floor. However it doesn't work as described between the modem and the router (Modem Eth out -> Eth on Hitron -> Coax -> Coax on 2nd MoCA -> Eth on Hitron to Router). I had to put it between the router Eth and my device upstairs (Modem -> 1st router -> Eth on Hitron > Coax to 2nd Hitron -> Eth on 2nd router upstairs). So unfortunately in order to have a router upstairs I needed a second router, because it does not work with the Spectrum modem directly (model ET2251). However once that is hooked up the connection is stable, solid and fast.

Works great! I wanted to stream games from my gaming PC to my living room TV, but the wifi just wasn't doing it. Running an ethernet cable was just not feasible in my house. And powerline adapters were too slow. I ended up trying these and now I can't feel any lag and I don't see any compression artifacts.I should mention, I don't have cable or satellite in my house. But the house was wired with coax. So it ended up being very easy for me. I wish I would have known about these sooner