Sorry to take so long to comment on this, I have been
recovering from a bad cold.
That is not the way FIOS is setup at my house. The fiber optic
cable runs from the pole to the FIOS box outside the house and
from there it is only a coax cable inside the house which is split
to serve different devices. One coax line goes to the Actiontec
and others go to set top boxes. The Actiontec only provides
internet and wireless routing, and does not interact at all (as far
as I can tell) with the television service. For example, the
actiontec modem and our set top boxes had to be separately
authenticated in order to work, and the set top boxes were
authenticated and tested for operability before the Actiontec.
We have two different kinds of set top boxes, a big one for our
main TV that has the station schedule guide and video on demand
capabilities and two smaller ones that just serves us the non-
interactive channels. They all have coax input and operate
without problems if the Actiontec is unplugged.
I am quite sure that this is Verizon's standard FIOS setup.
However, what you describe might sometimes be true. I think I
saw an ethernet port on the outside box before they sealed it up.
Also, my mom gets TV and internet (not FIOS) from the phone
company in her town, and I think that has ethernet to the set top
boxes, with video and ethernet outputs for TV and internet respectively.
Except for her limited channel availability, that is a cool setup.
Whenever she gets a phone call, she gets an alert on the TV
screen with caller ID information.
From: John Duncan Yoyo <[email protected]>
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
[email protected]> wrote:
OK first of all if it is COAX it is not DSL it is cable service.
(I looked
it up this is a FIOS modem router.)
The airport should probably be disconnected and solely let the
wireless
MacBook be looking only for the DSL wireless base station.
Another scenario is to hook the Airport into the router (one of the
L:AN
ports) and try connecting your mothers MacBook to the Airport and
not the
Actiontec.
They use the Actiontec to feed the the TV boxes through the COAX on
my FIOS
setup. The network comes in on an ethernet cable from the outside
FIOS box
to the Actiontec router/modem.
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