MoCA light not lighting up. Feel like I've tried everything!

Open for help, please!

So I seem to be having an issue with my WF-803M.

Current setup: ONT>WF-803M>Meshforce M3s

I plug my coax into the adapter, and the MoCA light wont turn on. My splitters are all MoCA supported as I've been running MoCA devices on them for a long time. Also confirmed that they're all supporting MoCA. My MoCA light wont come on at all. I'm not sure as to why. I've even gone into the settings (after I got fed up with it not working) and changed the static settings to "dynamic settings" for the IP and such. I am a Verizon FiOS customer. I contacted FiOS and they said that the best they could do is charge me a lot of money to run ethernet from the ONT to the router location, but I told them that was why I DIDN'T contact them, and went for a more cost efficient remedy.

For an even better idea: Once I did make that change to "dynamic settings" in the local IP and the MoCA light is blinking. Still not getting internet from it.

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jake.berkowicz

Aug 09, 2021

Thanks for the response. I’ve ended up returning to GoCOAX system. As I have an older system of Coax, being 1.something, according to FiOS, I can still push desired speeds of 200 mbps in my parents house, with the current system, when I purchase their “version” of GoCOAX, for about $5 cheaper. They tried to charge me $150 for someone to come out to install a new ONT, but if I could opt to do it myself (as they do), I believe I may be interested in GoCOAX at a later date. Thanks again!

ploog

Aug 09, 2021

The issue is that the old ONT doesn't support the MoCA spec of retail MoCA adapters. If you've been told that a MI424-WR or G1100 router would work, then you might look into grabbing an Arris MEB1100 adapter off eBay, as the MEB1100 supports the MoCA 1.1 Band C (channel C4) connection of the ONT. The caveat is that the MEB1100 is MoCA 1.1 and so only supports up to 150 Mbps throughput.

If the throughput of the ONT's built-in MoCA WAN is insufficient, and If the ONT supports Ethernet WAN, then you could use a pair of retail MoCA adapters for your WAN link between the ONT and router, but doing so can pose additional hurdles if also looking to use MoCA for LAN connectivity.

ploog

Aug 09, 2021

Still need any assistance with this?

goCoax

Jul 29, 2021

Looks like your ONT has built-in MoCA, am I right？

Could you share the model number of your ONT?

jake.berkowicz

Jul 29, 2021

Replying to

@goCoax Not 100% sure about built-in, but by the looks of it, I’d assume not. I can’t find the S/N. But here are pictures of the battery and such. According to Verizon Forums, the ONTs with these batteries are the old ONTs that DON’T have MoCA built in. The infrastructure is built on older systems, so I’d make the assumption that it’s the same ONT system that they were installing for new customers in 2014, when I became a FiOS customer. I can’t figure out how to get the COAX signal to become “translated” to MoCA, so I can receive internet through it. I do want to upgrade my connection which does require a new ONT, but that’s later down the road.