[Novalug] OT: Verizon FIOS Wireless AP issues

Varol Okan varokan@movingsatellites.com
Mon Feb 18 19:41:52 EST 2008


I never bothered. I cloned the MAC address and have my Router running on 
FIOS solid.

Varol :)

John wrote:
> The Actiontec routers that Verizon gives out are basically unreliable 
> junk.  They are the cheapest possible components shoved in the 
> cheapest possible box built in the cheapest possible region loaded 
> with a GPL operating system by a GPL breaking company(Actiontec, not 
> Verizon).  If you upgrade to a retail Actiontec wireless router you 
> can keep the Verizon support and you'll see vastly improved 
> performance, but this won't work if you have a triple play plan.
>
> My favorite solution for triple play customers was to run a LAN port 
> from the Actiontec to a quality wireless router and use that router to 
> provide a new subnet(like 192.168.2.***) and turn off the Actiontec's 
> wireless access point.  You may encounter the occasional problem from 
> having to jump two NATs, for instance a wireless Xbox will not connect 
> across both subnets, but almost all PC/Mac/Linux network functionality 
> should be retained.
>
> -John
>
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 09:03 -0500, greg pryzby wrote:
>> I am not sure what is going on, but it is now a few times a week we 
>> need to reboot the wireless access point (Actiontec).
>>
>> Anyone else have FIOS and this device seeing this issue?
>>
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