DirecTV Broadband Deca Ethernet to Coax Adapter - 3rd Generation (2 Pack)

At the time I bought this set, we had DirecTV. We had an HR44-500 and a Genie Mini here in the house and a second Genie Mini in an external building away from the house. The second Genie was served by a buried coax cable that is about 300 feet in length. The HR44-500 has a built in wireless Deca to provide an internet connection to the system so that the Genies can function properly. My goal with the Deca's was to provide an internet connection to the external building for a smart TV.I started connecting the Deca system by disconnecting my HR44-500 from the Wi-Fi. Next I connected one of the Deca's via the provided ethernet cable to my ISP modem, then I ran a coax cable from the Deca to one of the terminals on the SWM splitter. Luckily my internet connection is close to the SWM splitter. Next I connected the provided power supply to the Deca and verified that I had an internet connection at the HR44-500. I then went to the external building and connected the other Deca to the SWM connector at that end. I then connected the Smart TV via an ethernet cable and connected the power supply to the Deca. I powered on the Smart TV and it connected to the internet. It's that easy! It provides an internet connection over the same coax cable without interfering with my DirecTV signal at all!With this Deca set I was able to provide a wired internet connection for my Directv setup and I used my existing coax cable to run an internet connection to a building that was too far away for a router to reach. If this hadn't worked, I was looking at either burying a Cat 6 cable or installing an expensive point to point wireless bridge to reach the other building.About a month ago I decided to cancel my DirecTV service and go with a streaming service instead. I sent back my DirecTV equipment and left the Deca's in place, along with all of the existing coax cables. My internet connection is still going strong at the second building. I can stream 4K content seamlessly. I recently installed a wireless access point at the second building and made it an extension of my home network. I used the same SSID and password as my home network so my devices will roam between access points as I go between the house and the other building. Having an access point at the other building means I can airprint and also access all the devices on my home network from the other building.I haven't had to touch this system since I installed it, it just works!

I wanted a faster connection to my internet router than my WiFi was providing. While I have a 100mbs internet connection via Ethernet plugged into my router, I was only getting 45mbs over my WiFi connection. And in several parts of my house it was a low as 18mbs.I tried the "powerline" Ethernet devices that plug into your electrical outlets but while it improved the speed to 30-40mbs in parts of the house with a poor WiFi signal, I had intermittent issues. Sometimes the connection would drop speed dramatically or even lose the signal for a few seconds periodically. I suspect it was related to other electrical appliances that would kick in around the house that muddied the signal. In any case, I had to send those back as it was too unreliable.I then ran across these devices that would use the existing coax in my house and since I not longer had a Coax TV service in my house the cable had no signals at all on them. In addition, since these were so inexpensive I decided to give that a try.The setup was easy as all I had to do was go to where all the coax connections were still tied together from my old dish-based TV service and reconnect the cables. I found the cable that went to the room where my internet router was and changed that to the input. Then made all the other cables outputs on the splitter.I hooked up one of these devices to the router and screwed the cable into the coax connection in the wall. Then, I went to the room where my home office is and connected to the coax connection there and plug the Ethernet cable into my computer.I immediately had a 80mbs connection running into my laptop! I have used it for a week now and have not experienced a single signal drop or other issue. All is working perfectly! I also have the flexibility to move my laptop to any room where i have a Coax connection and just plug in to get the same speeds. Very nice!