If you order 150Mbps or higher speeds, they will have to use Ethernet. The installer will enable one of the ONT's WAN ports. The router connects to the ONT's WAN port using MoCA (coax) or Ethernet. Look up PON if you want to learn how it works.īanish the word and the device called 'modem' from your home when using FiOS. It is very helpful.įiOS does not have nodes. You'd be better of using a Verizon router configured as a bridge. You may be able to find a MoCA WAN bridge, but they are quite expensive. Don't bother looking for others, they don't exist. The only routers you can buy with a MoCA WAN port are the Verizon devices. Your cable modem cannot be used with FiOS. If that's the case, then I either need to buy a MOCA bridge or a MOCA router.īANISHthe word modem and any device called modem from your home when using FiOS. I should definitely not try to use it because it probably wouldn't work and it might cause problems on the node.

Just to confirm, my modem does have a MOCA filter, but it has no bridge mode or anything like that. Verizon technical support just gave me a machine that wanted to help me troubleshoot my Internet connection, and I couldn't get from there to a human. However, in my very simple scenario, can the Verizon optical network terminal simply feed its output to my coax, from there to my modem, then router, then comptuers? Is there any reason that wouldn't work? I've seen other people asking about using their own modem and router, but in those cases the scenario involved other bundled services, and I understand a FiOS router is necessary to forward ports to television, phone, and computers. None of my equipment advertises that it is FiOS compatible. I have my own cable modem, a SURFboard SB6121, which goes to my router, a TP Link TL-WR941ND. God willing, the installation will take place in two days. I have no other services from Verizon and do not plan to get any. I saw several questions similar to mine, but none that I saw answered my question for my scenario.

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