[Novalug] [Ma-linux] FIOS available: should I?

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Sat Jul 24 13:22:17 EDT 2010


What is the motivation. There is the concept of the Demarc(ation Point). 
Everything on My Side belongs to Me and Everything on Their Side belongs 
to Them. So why not put your router behind theirs?

I live in MD too, so I have Comcast, and they call their new "cable 
modem" box an EMTA, which does Internet, Phone, and TV.

The EMTA connects to my internal Linksys Wireless Router via an Ethernet 
cable.

The only reason I'd want their box in front of mine is if the EMTA did 
port filtering there, but I doubt that is the case.

JIM

On 7/22/2010 8:40 AM, Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Joseph Brinkley
> <brinkley.joseph@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> My issue with FiOS is the proprietary hardware. I want to use my Expensive
>> Cisco Router i put DD-WRT on :)
>>
>>      
> It can be done; I've seen the complicated version in person.  If you
> don't need cable, it's pretty simple to replace the VZ router.  If you
> do need cable, there is a complicated setup that still keeps the VZ
> router alive for the cable boxes but puts your router in control of
> the traffic.
>
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