MoCA announces 270Mbps over coax

We hit you up yesterday with news of the Coaxsys tech, known as TVnet 2X, that allows for 200Mbps networking over standard coax cables. Well apparently they're not the only game in town with some CES magic to flaunt, since the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA for short), complete with membership of Linksys, Motorola, and Panasonic, is announcing their own standard that bumps it up to 270Mbps, fool. They've apparently tested the tech with 3 HD video signals, 8 SD video signals, and two network gaming connections, all simultaneously, pumping a nice 94Mbps over 8 nodes. Sounds like we're in for a sweet CES showdown.

[Samuel Lago @ Dec 21st 2005 3:05PM]

WTF DVD home server seperate from the PC, let me make this clear EVERYTHING comes from the PC, got that. No amount of DRM is going to make any difference, and its not good having seperate silos of media, because its just bullshit

[Google Nazi @ Dec 21st 2005 4:18PM]

200mbps is not required yet. I have yet to see something that actually uses that much bandwidth.



I for one would like to see these tubes filled with nanobots plotting their destruction upon humans.

[Leebo @ Dec 21st 2005 4:37PM]

200 mbps isn't required but it's necessary if you want to stream HDTV over the network and surf the net and do gaming. They're just trying to make it all capable so you don't have to upgrade in the future.

[Pacey @ Dec 21st 2005 5:49PM]

And the fact that they are trying to do it over the existing wire in your house is admirable.

[Mysta @ Dec 21st 2005 11:41PM]

You can never have to much bandwith...

[enki @ Dec 22nd 2005 9:51AM]

640K is all the bandwidth anybody would ever need.

[Buzzcut @ Dec 22nd 2005 2:52PM]

Is 200 or 270 Mbps all that impressive? Cat5 is capable of 100. I would think that coax would be much more capable than that, like 10x. Think of how much data comes down coax on, say, DirecTV (3 satelites, plus OTA). That's a ton of data.



What am I missing here?

[Brian @ Dec 23rd 2005 10:45AM]

"640K is all the bandwidth anybody would ever need."



Thats kinda like Bill Gates saying 128k of memory is all youll ever need.



BTW-- you can NEVER have too much bandwidth, I could use 270mpbs to its full extent, if anyone needs a tester Im your guy

[Luke @ Dec 28th 2005 3:05PM]

Cool but why would anyone want it to be that fast?

Your internet connection wouldn't even be fast enough!!!