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    Verizon Fios Router

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by huai, Feb 10, 2011.

  1. huai

    huai Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone have any experience with the "free router" that Verizon gives you when you sign up for Fios internet? I don't know what the model or the manufacturer is.
     
    huai, Feb 10, 2011
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    They were issuing ActionTec routers, which are not very good in my book. Work good if your only going to browse, but add gaming and BT its a killer. They limit the nat so it can not handle a lot of simultaneous connection. If you signed up for the TV/phone/internet package. Make them install the Cat5e ONT device and run the cat53 cable. Otherwise all of your internet service will come through the coax feed. If you go this way there is a way to use a different router as the front end with the actiontec in bridge mode, and still have the VOD and guide work. The guide is the the easiest part to setup it's the VOD that's get tricky.
     
    blue68f100, Feb 11, 2011
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