Hello everyone,

my problem is described below.

Background

I am from Europe and live in an old apartment. The apartment has one coaxial wall outlet (in the living room) that consists of three separate coax plugs - they are labeled “data”, “TV” and “radio”. There is also one phone line wall outlet.

Currently I only have one WiFi AP (combined with my router) located in my living room. All of the walls in the apartment are made out of bricks so the WiFi signal in other rooms is bad. That’s why I would like to add APs to other rooms but I am looking for a way to connect them in order to get the best signal and speed.

Possible solutions

I highly doubt Ethernet cables could be installed around the apartment inside the walls and there is no way to run the cables through my apartment (no carpets or baseboards, metal doorframes and no thresholds so there is no way to run them elegantly, trust me).

WiFi extenders wouldn’t really help much in my case and thus it seems like the only possible solution is MoCA or powerline adapters. I think that out of these two MoCA is the preferred solution since powerline will likely not be as consistent and there might be various limitations due to interference. Powerline would however be much easier to install since I don’t have coaxial wall outlets in the other rooms.

MoCA questions

There seems to be very little info about using MoCA adapters in Europe and considering that I would have to order the adapters from abroad and call a technician to install the extra coax outlets I would like to have all necessary information beforehand. That’s why I wanted to ask you a couple of questions, please:

1. Is it possible to use MoCA adapters from the US in Europe?

2. What information should I tell the technician installing the outlets so that there is no miscommunication and I get what I am looking for?

3. Is it possible to use any coax outlet in my apartment (after they are installed) for MoCA? I mean, will the MoCA adapters automatically be on the same network and recognize each other simply because all of the coax outlets are in my apartment?

4. Why do I have three separate coax plugs - data, TV and radio? What is the difference?

5. If I want the coax for MoCA, does it matter which one of the three plugs I use? (I suppose the best one is the one for data.)

6. Is there anything else that you think I should know and didn’t mention?

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Thank you!