Can anyone shed light on how to do this?
Current setup- FiOS phone, internet, TV.
came with actiontec MI424WR modem/router and I hate it. Its range is nothing like what my airport extremes range was. I tried in bridge mode and noticed slowdowns, and Id really like to avoid having bridge mode. I want my airport to do the DHCP but I know that I will lose my fios guide functionality if i do so.
After searching this forum i seemed to find an unresolved questions
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If this is indeed the correct way to do this...then with my router and modem being upstairs and the ONT being on the side of the house...do I have to have an ethernet cable run upstairs?
Thanks a lot for any advice!
Alex
Current setup- FiOS phone, internet, TV.
came with actiontec MI424WR modem/router and I hate it. Its range is nothing like what my airport extremes range was. I tried in bridge mode and noticed slowdowns, and Id really like to avoid having bridge mode. I want my airport to do the DHCP but I know that I will lose my fios guide functionality if i do so.
After searching this forum i seemed to find an unresolved questions
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Let me see if I have this right. Is this what we should do?
There is a coax cable going from the ONT (Optical Network Terminal) to the Verizon router. Leave this cable in place.
Hook an Ethernet cable from the ONT's Ethernet jack to the Time Machine's WAN jack. (Time Machine is just a particular form of an Apple Airport Extreme router).
Hook an Ethernet cable from one of the Time Machine's LAN jacks to the Verizon router's WAN jack.
Get Verizon support to configure the ONT so it passes Internet connectivity through the ONT's Ethernet jack (instead of or in addition to passing it through the coax jack?).
Reset the Verizon router (so we're starting from a known configuration).
Set the Verizon router to get its network connection from its Ethernet WAN jack instead of from its coax jack (or have Verizon support do this).
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Is this right? If not, please edit it and post a corrected, complete explanation, rather than trying to explain what is wrong with the above.
Thanks!
If this is indeed the correct way to do this...then with my router and modem being upstairs and the ONT being on the side of the house...do I have to have an ethernet cable run upstairs?
Thanks a lot for any advice!
Alex