Time Capsule connectivity non existent when connected to Moca to extend network.
I have a time capsule (pizza box) and two airport expresses that I am using to wirelessly extend my network and it works most of the time. One airport express is in the front room, my office and the other is upstairs to provide internet connectivity in those locations as it doesn't reach from the time capsule itself. There is one CAT5 in the house, in my living room and this is how my internet service provider supplies the internet and it is plugged into the back of the time capsule into the WAN port.
My house has coax next to the CAT5 in the living room, coax in every room upstairs and two coaxes in the master bedroom, for a total of 6. The wiring for the coax was all bundled outside of my house with no connectors on the ends.
So I purchased two Moca adapters to hardwire the airport express upstairs. I connected a CAT5 to one of the output ports on the back of the TC, into the Moca adaptor and plugged the Moca adapter into the coax next to the CAT5 in the living room. I then turned on this single Moca adaptor, went outside with a line tester and located the one line that the signal was being transmitted on. I installed a connector on the end and screwed it into the IN side of a 5 way splitter (1 in and 4 outs). I then installed connectors on the rest of the coax lines (5 total - 3 bedrooms and 2 in master), so I took the out of one of the outputs on the 5 way and put it in the input of a 3 way splitter (1 in and 2 out), so I could have all rooms upstairs receiving signal from the Moca in the living room.
Just a recap because I know that was a lot. Time Capsule out, into Moca. Moca into 5 way input. Output 1, bedroom 1, output 2 into bedroom 2, output 3 into bedroom 3, output 4 into 3 way input. 3 way output, both coaxes in master.
I then installed the 2nd Moca adaptor in the master bedroom and plugged it into the WAN port on the back of the airport express and plugged it into one of the coax connectors.
With both Moca adaptors turned on, the adaptors show that they are getting LAN signal and that the Moca networks is up and running. However, there is now no internet, no wifi and the TC's status light shows it was fine but the Airport utility showed it unavailable and the airport express in my office that remained wireless would drop off the network every 5 minutes, turn green but would take an additional 5 minutes to show up in Air Port Utility.
To use wifi and have internet access so I could resume work, I had to shut off the Moca adaptor in the living room.
I would appreciate any assistance that can be offered.
Thank you
