Comments on: Bypassing Verizon FIOS Actiontec router and using your own router instead

By: dse_dse

dse_dse — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:13:21 +0000

Thank you for the easy to follow steps. Unfortunately, I cannot get the Internet connection to come through my router. I have a couple questions:

1) Does the computer permanently stay connected to the Actiontec as described above, or do I move the Ethernet cable to the router once setup? Can the router really pass back the DHCP assignment through Actiontec?

2) What Internet connection setting do I need in the router? I assume Dynamic (assigned by ISP), and not static or PPPoE or Disabled.

3) Do I need to do any MAC cloning?

4) Is there anyway to find out what the IP address is off the Actiontec once I do this?

5) Should my router be set to the IP range of 192.168.1.1 like the actiontec? It defaults to 2.1 (its a Microsoft).

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By: flipperoff

flipperoff — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:56:13 +0000

Jared, Are you having the problem where you have to Enable the Broadband Ethernet connection when your Actiontec gets a power cycle? Mine will go disabled and I lose On Demand and Widgets until I go in are re-enable. Its a pain!

I may try the NIM-100 and get rid of this bridge fiasco.

By: tonycomputer

tonycomputer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:34:13 +0000

Jared, thank you for this process. I followed your directions assiduosly 3 times. Each time I got my Belkin N+ to broadcast to my TV, but I cannot get it to connect to the internet. I tried dynamic and static. In the case of the latter I tried the IP adress, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS server etc. from numbers that the actiontek used when it is in the verizon mode. I hate to give up on this as neither verizon or actiontec will give you a clue. Do you think that Verizon has somehow changed the firmware, etc. since you did this?

Thanks for any help.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:16:34 +0000

I found this page by googleing. Thanks so much for putting the info on the page. Works like a charm. The actiontec was choking with 2 DVRs, 2 laptops, 2 desktops, 2 iphones, and a PS3 chugging away.

Bridged with an N wireless router… much better performance wifi from Fios. I actually feel the benefit… where as before, only the one desktop that was plugged directly into the router was really blazing.

By: Jared Evans

Jared Evans — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:30:22 +0000

You have to release the IP address from Actiontec.

By: RTravis

RTravis — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:26:25 +0000

Jared,
Helpful step by step approach, everything seemed to work and took….but my Linksys router never received an WAN IP address. Reset it, still no address and tried to do static address with known address from Actiontec setup…no work.
Thoughts? My FIOS WAN connection is thru Coax.

By: jok

jok — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:23:43 +0000

By: Jared Evans

Jared Evans — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:12:37 +0000

I believe you are supposed to return the Actiontec router to Verizon when you are terminate your contract with them.

Time Warner should have given you a cable modem. Turn off Actiontec and do a hard reset on TW modem. Turn TW modem on, wait a bit, then plug Actiontec WAN port (white port on the back) to the cable modem.

Make sure Actiontec itself is set to attempt to DHCP an address from TW and also is acting as a DHCP server for your wireless devices.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:25:36 +0000

Hi Jared,
Just saw this post and that made me believe that you will be able to help my case as well. I too have this actiontec router which i got from Verizon when i was using their service. Now i have moved to a new place and using time warner. But they did not provide a wireless router and i am wondering if i can use this verizon router as a normal wireless router with this new connections. I tried to reset the router, but its not transmitting the wireless internet. Looks like this is still configured for the coex and not for WAN input. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

By: Gene

Gene — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:20:26 +0000

You don't need the actiontec at all use a motorola nim-100 for coax to ethernet connection and then your own firewall or router instead. Have them install this in the first place and there's no issue otherwise you might have to get it after the fact.

By: Jared Evans

Jared Evans — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:25:22 +0000

It's always great when you find a post that compresses all the information into a single page :-)

By: James

James — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:52:55 +0000

Hey Jared just wanted to thank you for posting this. Solved all the issues I was having with my FIOS connection.