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Was going to return--but settings fixed intermittent outages
I was running with 2.1.4.16 but dropouts were rampant. We could not have a 5-minute conversation on Alexa Echo Show with our grandkids without a 5 second dropout every minute or two. And that was on ...
You will be in a double NAT condition. This can effect how some programs and devices connect to the internet:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/nat.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/networking/fixing_double_nat.htm
Up to you though. You have all the information you need.
Thanks. I went through the "fixing double NAT" steps (at least those that are still possible--it is not possible to lower the 5GHz firewall to minimum security) and then had no Internet access at all. I reversed many of the steps and then found that the FiOS Quantum Gateway is already set to Bridge mode. Therefore, all those steps seem unnecessary. I now have Internet access again.
I am incredulous that there is bickering and disagreement from just about everyone on these forums. The vendors are not even consistent in what is best. I'm about to give up and just leave this as the NetGear support person said to leave it.
Ok, thats the idea of #1. We have no idea what the configuration is of the modem so one reason why we ask what the Mfr and model is so we can find out if you have a modem with a built in router or not. If you do, like you said, FIOS Gateway, this is a Modem/ONT with built in router capabilities. I didn't know how the FIOS was configured until you said that it's currently bridged. If this is the case, you in a single NAT condition and yet, you can leave the Orbi system configured as is and you'll be fine.