ASUS Ethernet Over Coax Adapter Starter Kit MA-25

I installed 4 of these 2.5 Gbps Ethernet offer coax adapters in my new Mesh Wifi system as backhauls to each Mesh wireless adapter. It is amazing that these give you the speed that makes these wireless mesh units so much faster! They were easy to install, remember if you use more than two units to use Moca button.

Sólo los conectas y en segundos ya están funcionando perfecto

Now for the good part: Yes this works, and it works amazing. I haven’t had any issue setting it up (plug-n-play) and it’s quite fast. It was much much cheaper than trying to run Ethernet up to my room but in most cases that isn’t true, carefully consider which path will be easier before buying.

UPDATE: These are great for plug-n-play if you have only 2, if you want to add to your network it can be a real pain to figure out how to get it to work as the instructions really suck, turns out you gotta go to the host adapter hold it down for 5 seconds and then run over to the one you want to add and do the same, anything else and you’ll probably have to start over.

UPDATE 2: I just hit 900Mbps for the first time, so it seems they’re probably not falsely advertised as I only have 1 gig internet and my router does not have a 2.5 gig port like my PC.

Let me start by saying I don’t normally write a lot of reviews and that I normally do like Asus products (I’ve had 3-4 of their routers in the past and have also had a few of their bluetooth adapters and have generally been pleased by their products). With that said, don’t buy these Asus Moca Adapters if you already have an Asus Router. I wanted to install a second router on the other end of the house to act as a aimesh point with wired backhaul. I don’t have ethernet throughout the house but I do have inactive coax lines since we no longer pay for cable and use all streaming services. I initially thought this worked great, relatively simple and solved my problem. We started to notice there were momentary blips in the wifi (where the wifi/internet disconnects and then reconnects 1-2 minutes later) it was not like a router restart when it takes 3-4 minutes to come back online but quicker 1-2 minute disconnects.
I thought the 2nd router I had might be defective, I thought the splitters or cabling in the wall might be bad, I thought I might need moca filters installed somewhere along the line. The last thing I thought was that the moca adapter was bad since it always started up and was always fast to transmit/receive. After spending weeks trying another router, replacing splitters, coax and ethernet jumper cables, etc. the problem ended up being the moca adapter. I eventually found a couple obsure posts of reddit that stated similar problems. The problem seems to be that asus assigns these moca adapters the same default IP address as many of their internet routers. 168.192.50.1 so whenever you try to login to the router or do something with the router something must momentarily go haywire causing the momentary disconnect because of the multiple devices with the same IP. Some on reddit have solved the problem being manually changing the ip address of the router. I just bought Screenbeam moca adapters instead. I installed the Screenbeams this afternoon and 1/2 a day later everything works great and so far no blips and no disconnects. I think these Asus things were definitely my problem.

Works as advertised, plug and play, took me less than 10mins. I have both unused COAX and some type of CAT5 cable wired in my less than 20yr old house. Not wanting to risk possible non CAT5e cables and making life easiest, this got me “wired” quality gaming at the opposite corner of my house. I will purchase a second set for running second MESH network.