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Frontier FiOS wiring without their router?
I have Frontier FiOS coming into my house. I use my RBR40 as a router, and have two satellites elsewhere in a three story house. The cable from Frontier comes into the third floor in a closet. I've g...
You could use a switch to help between the main entrance and where the router is. Nothing else could be on this swtich though. Just the router.
Can you move the router up to the main demark is where the FIOS comes in?
Thanks for the quick response. Let me see if I understand what you're saying: Outside FiOS connection, to switch in the third floor closet, to a new switch (not the Orbi RBR40) on the third floor, find a cable on the third floor that goes to a jack on the second floor, connect that cable on the second floor to the Orbi RBR40 router, and then connect the the Orbi RBR40 to another port going to a switch on the second floor? If I've got this right (and if I've explained it coherently!), what do I do about all the other (about 16) cables that run from the third floor closed down the walls to various places in the house? (Gosh, I sure hope this makes sense!) Thanks.
I believe your good up to the Orbi router to it's WAN port for ISP services, however after the orbi router you would need another switch at the location where you have your 16 wire distrobution cables at, to connect them to this switch, then connect this switch behind the Orbi router on it's LAN port.
cjaubertwrote:Thanks for the quick response. Let me see if I understand what you're saying: Outside FiOS connection, to switch in the third floor closet, to a new switch (not the Orbi RBR40) on the third floor, find a cable on the third floor that goes to a jack on the second floor, connect that cable on the second floor to the Orbi RBR40 router, and then connect the the Orbi RBR40 to another port going to a switch on the second floor? If I've got this right (and if I've explained it coherently!), what do I do about all the other (about 16) cables that run from the third floor closed down the walls to various places in the house? (Gosh, I sure hope this makes sense!) Thanks.
I think I've got it. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!