Newb to SNB - Q re: FiOS gear

[obmot]

Mi gosh - just thinking how this would happen - watching Law and Order...

No Knock Warrant - Boom! - they jump into your house, you in pajamas... we're here to install the INTERNET....

Hi sfx, there is a photo of the maddening no peek sticker in my post above #13 although I may have effed it up trying to attach it in a way that meets the forum requirements (newbness issues) - let me know if it didn't work and I'll try again.

I like that scenario - 'oh how DARE you open our box!, you are hereby TERMINATED from FiOS, you thug box opener!'

But alas it's not to be...I live in manhattan in a doorman building (which is somewhat of a strange beast compared to folks with real houses) . . . visitors must first get past the DM, who "announces" an arrival (visitor) and queries the resident (me in this case) whether such person can proceed onward or not. So it would be more like ...

---Buuullleeep [pause]---

"Yes?"

"A Verizon representative is here requesting to come upstairs to meet you, he says he is here to install internet service. Can he come up?"

"Yes I'm expecting him, thanks."

---bzzzzzzt [I push the holy grail button to confirm the chap's entry upward]---

[wait 25 seconds for elevator to arrive, 10 seconds more for him to locate the correct door]

-BZZZZZZZZZZZZ...[the actual door buzzer]..."Warrant - Boom! - they jump into your house, you in pajamas... we're here to install the INTERNET"

Now I'm a tiny bit of a practical jokester, so this is the moment I might open the door and say something to prank him/her a bit. I'll think on that this week and see if I conjure up something witty to do. Or I could open the box, take out the gear, fill said box with ping pong balls or drywall screws or something - carefully retape it so when he opens it he's like why the F did Verizon HQ send this??

Actually I wonder if this week I can find a US robotics 56k modem from like 99/2000 to put in the box. I think that would be a hoot.

 

[obmot]

Well gentlepeople - update on the FiOS...with a bit of a perplexity.

The VZ guy arrived yesterday aft and got everything connected. It took about 3 hours but most of that time he was doing stuff out in the stairwell (I think the MDU?). Anyway, he left me with the G1100 "Quantum Gateway" and everything was fine, I got the 100/100 plan and my tests came in at 105/118.

Here's the perplexity - as recommended above I asked him to put the ONT using ethernet as the output, and it goes to the G1100. THe ONT is a tiny little thing in my apt.

Well just for sharts and goggles, I disconnected the G1100 and attached my WNDR3700 router (DD-WRT firmware) via the WAN port-to-ONT (swapping it out for the G1100) and it fired up a-ok, all my networks/wifi etc. exactly as it had been but for much faster speeds. The wifi only gets 50/50 but I think perhaps the WNDR3700 'cant do' more than that WiFi (ethernet gets same 105/118 as the G1100).

No bridging, no fiddling, nuthin' - I just plugged it in on a whim. The G1100 is sitting here utterly unused.

So, uh - that seemed *way* too easy. I've read tons of online forums etc. where people struggle to get their router to work with the FiOS. I just swapped the G1100 for my WNDR3700. Should this be working? Will the VZ police show up at my door lol?

I also tried 2 other WNDRs I have laying around - presto bingo they work too. Just plugged ethernet from ONT into WAN of WNDR.

Am I crazy?? Well ok - don't answer that. I should ask - am I not supposed to be able to do this so easily?

 

[CaptainSTX]

If you don't have TV and/or phone that is all there is to it. Just keep the G1100 handy in case you need Fios to help you trouble shoot network problems.

 

[obmot]

If you don't have TV and/or phone that is all there is to it. Just keep the G1100 handy in case you need Fios to help you trouble shoot network problems.

Good point, I'd rather not pay the 10$ per month to do so. But I suppose in the end, I'll regret it if I return it and some day need support and find myself up a creek with no Quantum Gateway - so I will heed your advice.

Thanks for your reply STX.

 

[CaptainSTX]

Good point, I'd rather not pay the 10$ per month to do so. But I suppose in the end, I'll regret it if I return it and some day need support and find myself up a creek with no Quantum Gateway - so I will heed your advice.

Thanks for your reply STX.

Fortunately when I had Fios and had TV from them also they let me use their router for free.

I will say their service was super reliable so that if after several months you have no problems you could consider returning the router. In the meantime you can alway repurpose their router as an AP if you have WiFi dead spots in your home.