That's a bummer IMHO since it limits your control & your ability to log what's
happening on your connection. This was what I faced with when I moved out here & took
over control of my girlfriends DSL connection. At least I was eventually able to get
a better deal from the small local cable co. for 3x the speed & I control everything
after the modem. Would NEVER have it any other way.
If it was me I'd be looking for a way to get their router to simply pass the live IP
to my routers WAN port. Even if their firewall is disabled the resulting packets are
useless for determining origin since you're double NAT'd.
On 7/2/2010 10:28 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
I can only tell you what "they" do here.
My FIOS is a single box inside.
That seems to me to be better than one inside and one outside.
(The Optical Link terminates in the basement.)
Mine runs a COAX cable to the WIFI router (supplied)
which I had to have them move from my basement to my
first floor. Too much steel and metal ducting in the basement
for the signal to get upstairs.
They said it had to be Coax to have me ready for TV, if I got it.
All outputs from that are Wireless or CAT5. I feed switches
(and hubs) around the house.
> THEIR WiFi router runs a DHCP server with a dynamic IP
(this is a house/residential account).
I can set it to use OpenDNS servers. (The company.)
The rest will be Company specific. VERIZON set up the configuration
with a batch file on a USB drive run on my laptop connected with Cat5.
I insisted on better security (NOT WEP) and changed it after they left.
They had to change my WiFi router once to a better model that actually
supported that. WPA-PSK2
(About a year later, another one burned out.)
Good luck.
Rick Glazier
