Got a bit of a problem with my home network. I've got FIOS (which I love) but the WiFi signal from the FIOS router is not strong enough to go up to our bedroom. Also, it's speeds are not all that great.
A few months ago I looked into setting up a WiFi extender for the network. Unfortunately, none of the Actiontec routers that Verizon uses support it: http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Home-Networking/Actiontec-router-does-not-support-wireless-range-extender-so-how/td-p/553721 I've confirmed that my router is one of these. I was also told that replacing the FIOS router completely was not an option because it's needed for the IPTV to function. So, I was thinking it should be possible to turn off the WiFi portion of the FIOS router and add a new router to the network that will handle the wireless duties. As long as I set the new router to use the FIOS router for its gateway, things should work, right? Would it be preferable to run off DHCP for the new router and have the FIOS router handle those duties? Or should I let the new router get it's IP address from the FIOS router and then all the wireless devices get their IP addresses from the new router? In that case I'd obviously have to make sure they were on different IP ranges. --------- Brian
