John Sladek on 18 Feb 2009 13:33:25 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Verizon FiOS?


It is one or the other for the WAN. Either way there will need to be a
coax connected to the router for the LAN (if u have TV).  Unless there
is a specific need to have Cat5 run then why not just use coax?

-John

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:32 -0400, Eric Hidle wrote:
> Verizon tech support is telling me they can't enable both the coax and
> the Ethernet on the ONT... 
> 
> Jeez, this is ridiculous... 10 different answers from 10 different Vz
> people.. 
> 
> Any more ideas before I tell the installer to abort?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Steve Morgan
> <stevem.firefly@gmail.com> wrote:
>         You will have to call Verizon FIOS tech support and have them
>         switch
>         you over to Ethernet at another time.  The installer is lying
>         or just
>         fell asleep during that portion of the training.  I had mine
>         switched
>         just fine.  The router can grab internet connectivity from the
>         Ethernet port (assuming of course the router he is giving you
>         has a
>         WAN Ethernet port).
>         
>         
>         Regards,
>         
>         Steve Morgan
>         
>         
>         On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Eric Hidle
>         <eric.hidle@gmail.com> wrote:
>         > The installer is here now and he is telling me I cannot get
>         direct Ethernet
>         > access. I must use their router, which does the first level
>         of NAT for me.
>         > He says I cannot get Internet over the Ethernet port.
>         >
>         > Why all the conflicting stories? Who do I have to call to
>         get this to work
>         > the way I want it to?
>         > E
>         >
>         >
>         > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Bill East
>         <wm.east@gmail.com> wrote:
>         >>
>         >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Joe Terranova
>         <joeterranova@gmail.com>
>         >> wrote:
>         >> >  I would hope that others on this list could speak up
>         about port
>         >> >> blocking as I am quite curious myself but have yet to
>         perform any real
>         >> >> testing.
>         >> >
>         >> > Port 80 is definitely blocked. I have not tried 25.
>         >>
>         >> 25 out is blocked, you have to route through Verizon's
>         server using
>         >> 587 and TLS. I have not had issues with this.
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