Bridging + MoCa?

[bar_foo]

I just moved to a new place and set up 1 Gig home internet with Telus. The fibre comes into the ground floor of our 3-level townhouse, but ideally I'd like to have a wired connection to the second floor, where my home office and NAS will be located and where the wi-fi router should ideally be located. The current setup is an Arcadyan NH20A and with a wi-fi Boost 2.0 on its 10 Gig port. This works but the signal isn't great upstairs. There's also coax throughout the house, and NH20A has a MoCa port, as does the wi-fi router. Before I invest in any MoCa hardware, I'd like to know if it's possible to hook the coax directly to the NH20A and plug my own wi-fi router (because I need more control to open ports for the NAS) directly to a MoCa adapter on the second floor. I know I might lose a bit of throughput, even with MoCa 2.5, but it should be close enough for 1 Gig. Is that feasible?

[TELUS_Support]

Yes, utilizing the MoCA capability with the coax already in your home is a feasible option for connecting your router and NAS on the second floor.

[bar_foo]

Thanks. I guess I should have been more specific in my question: if the network box is in bridged mode, will the Moca still work? 

[TELUS_Support]

If your network box is in bridged mode, the MoCA should still work, provided that the MoCA adapters are properly configured.

[bar_foo]

Great, so all I would need is one MoCA adapter, since the network box has MoCA out:

network box in bridged mode -> MoCA out -> coax -> MoCA adapter -> ethernet patch cable -> router?

[TELUS_Support]

Yes, that's correct! Your setup would look like this:

Network Box in Bridged Mode: This allows your network box to pass the internet connection directly to your MoCA adapter without interfering with routing functions.

MoCA Out: Connect the MoCA out port on your network box to the coaxial cable.

Coaxial Cable: Run this cable to your MoCA adapter on the second floor.

MoCA Adapter: This device will convert the coax signal back into Ethernet.

Ethernet Patch Cable: Finally, connect the MoCA adapter to your router using an Ethernet patch cable.

[xray]

I don't have a NH20A as I can't get fiber service yet but I'd like to know which ports are used for bridge mode and which are not. Your answer indicates the MoCA port is bridged. Which Ethernet ports are bridged and which are not?

[TELUS_Support]

The 10-gig port can definitely be bridged—I just checked the NH20A, and it actually already has a coax port, so I'm wondering if bridging is even necessary.

[bar_foo]

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@TELUS_Support wrote:

The 10-gig port can definitely be bridged—I just checked the NH20A, and it actually already has a coax port, so I'm wondering if bridging is even necessary.

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When I go to set up bridge mode, these are the options I see:

So yes, the 10G port is available. But what I was hoping to do was to hook the coax directly to the NH20A, then attach my router to the MoCA adapter on the other level. But from this menu it doesn't look like the built-in MoCA will work for bridge mode, unless "FULL" includes MoCA--it's unclear what FULL would mean here.