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Verizon Fios ONT & AX6000
Ok - I got a weird issue.... I hooked up my Orbi AX6000 directly to the ONT using a Cat7 cable. Pretty rockin you'd think, right? Not so much. Speed is actually SLOWER than if I hooked up th...
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Something to look into:
Thank you.
Got it. The question for you is do you still need the Verizon Gateway. If you are going to use your Orbi as your primary router and don't need any of the capabilities of the Verizon Gateway to support FiOS set top boxes (STBs) then you can simply eliminate the Verizon Gateway. This is the path I've gone down since I've switched over to streaming services and eliminated FiOS set top boxes. I can't tell from your original post but it sounds like this is what you are trying to do. You actually don't want the Verizon Gateway on your network since you should be managing your in home network through the Orbi (which is now at the 192.168.1.1 address).
If you need the capabilities of the Verzion Gateway because you have FiOS TV and use the STBs then you have to decide whether you want the Verizon Gateway to be your primary router and use your Orbi in AP mode or whether you want to use your Orbi as the primary router and the Verizon Gateway as an ethernet to coax bridge. There are pro/cons to both approaches, the link I sent above covers them in detail. In either case the Verzion Gateway would have to be configured on your LAN network so you can still access it through the 192.168.1.x address.
Thanks for the input. Currently, the Orbi is the router and the FIOS gateway is in bridge mode and I'm enjoying the improved Internet performance over the Eero V2 setup. Since I still have my FIOS One set-top boxes, I will require the FIOS gateway device moving forward. Any idea when Netgear's Armor services will be ported to the RBR850 platform?
Probably what you need to do is Option 7 under the link I sent you. The detailed instructions are here:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15993
and some other useful information is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fios/comments/4dm7zp/configuring_quantum_gateway_g1100_behind_personal/
When you are done making these changes the Verizon Gateway will be in bridged mode and you'll set its static IP address to 192.168.1.2 so you can log into its management interface at that IP address.
I ran in that configuration for a month or two and after the initial reconfiguration from router to bridge I found that I seldom needed to access the router because you have it configured as an ethernet to MoCA bridge -- you aren't really using much of its functionality in that mode.