I have a neighbor with an Internet issue to the guest house. I went over to see if I could figure out what was going on and I could not. I have ZERO experience with a MOCA device. They have a MEB1100 connected to the wall via coax. The coax is supposed to go from their guest house to the main house. This connection as worked as-is for 5+ years. A few weeks ago, it stopped working. They had a Frontier FIOS teck come out and tell the mother inlaw that the MOCA device worked but the CISCO router that was connected that supplied WIFI to the guest house was not working. They got a new router ( TrendNet ) and it's WAN port is plugged into the MEB1100 but the web interface on the new TrendNet router says no internet connection.
I took my laptop and plugged it into the MOCA device and I got an address of 192.168.1.99 but no gateway and I could not ping anything... specifically... I could not ping 192.168.1.254 which I think is the IP Address of the main aeris router... but I could be wrong on that.
I unplugged the MOCA adapter, took it to the main house, took the coax that went into the main router out of the main router... plugged the coax into the MOCA (MEB1100) device, connected my laptop up to the MOCA device and again pulled a 192.168.1.99 ip address but could not ping anything... not gateway was assigned and 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254 were not pingable.
Does the MOCA adapter just not work like I think it should? I had two lights of the same color on the MOCA device when it was plugged into the coax. I think that they were both green... but they could have been a yellow-ish green. They were steady. I am color blind so I can't say for certain they were green or not. They were not red and they were not flashing. I was assuming I'd plug into the MOCA device and pull an ip address and gateway address.
Should I have been able to do something on my laptop plugged into the MOCA device when the known, working FIOS coax was plugged into it?
- thanks - jack
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