[Novalug] FiOS and ipcop

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 11:12:20 EDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Daniel Copeland
<daniel.l.copeland at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to set up an ipcop firewall with my Verizon FiOS service.
> Problem is, when it got installed, they used the coax output from the ONT
> into their pathetic verizon-provided router.  I want to be able to use the
> ethernet jack on the ONT, has anyone here had any experience getting verizon
> to switch it over, and will it cost me an arm and a leg?

Joe Klein on here has.  I think he said he just called them up and
they activated the ethernet part.  It also gets rid of that lovely
bottleneck they give you with coax...the one where their cable "modem"
(*cough*bridge*cough*) can't do over 10Mbit, even when you pay for
$30Mbit.

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