FiOS setup (not mine, a client's)

[mattkime]

Yesterday I helped a client eliminate the redundant router Verizon installed with their FiOS.

Unlike cable modems or dsl, its not enough to reset the modem to get it to talk to another router. You must log in to the Verizon router and tell it to release the IP address and then your own router will work fine.

Its not terribly difficult but it did throw me for a loop until i used the google.

More detailed instructions here - http://agaric.com/note/how-setup-linksys...rizon-fios

[DCrunch]

Isn't the FIOS router required for programming info? I hooked up a Time Capsule to my FIOS router. The FIOS router still assigns all IPs, and I have two printers connected to it as well as a Windows desktop, but I turned off the wireless function of the FIOS router and use the wireless function of the Time Capsule (The Time Capsule has better wireless security). I have an eMac connected to the Time Capsule and a Canon printer connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule. It seems convoluted, but it works.

[mattkime]

I don't know, they only have data, no TV.

[tenders]

My FIOS router also powers my set-top boxes. I don't know everything going on there but it appears to be quite a bit more complex than the Buffalo router I had running before FIOS was installed.

The FIOS router appears to be handling another parallel and independent network for television content through the coax wiring. The installer guy originally configured the FIOS router to cooperate with my home Buffalo running downstream from it, just to appease me, but I eventually took the Buffalo out. The FIOS router was pretty good, and the hassle of dealing with two routers in series was not worth the prestige of running the network from the Buffalo router.

[dk62]

I replaced the FiOS router almost immediately. It has weak Wi-Fi signal and would for some reason crash during some downloads on Macs, but not on a PC. I put in a tomato-driven router instead.

As mentioned, you do need to make it release the IP first. Also, you need the Verizon-supplied router for communications with TV boxes. Therefore, you need to attach it to your primary router either in a bridge mode (which I have done) or as sub-network (in which case you will not be able to share files or print between computers/printers attached to it and those attached to the primary router). You can leave the wireless on the Verizon router on or off, depending on whether you need two wireless networks.

The only problem is if you need to use the remote programming function. A Web search showed that some people got it to work by opening certain ports on the primary router, but many others did not. I could not get it to work, but did not find it worth my time to spend much effort tinkering with it.