[Bloat] Question about Buffer Bloat and Verizon Fios

[Stephen Hemminger]

I got a pair at Frys. The issue is that MOCA frequency from the ONT to the
Router is different than the frequency from the Router to the DVR.
To change the frequency requires creating a standalone network and doing
the 192.168 web access thing.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Antonio Ortiz <games at djlatino.com> wrote:

> I'm going to order them from Amazon. A pair of moca is $110.00. Thanks
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 8, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Stephen Hemminger <
> stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:56:48 -0700
> > Alex Elsayed <eternaleye at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dave Taht wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:05 AM,  <games at djlatino.com> wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>>> Reason is Verizon has a combo router/modem.
> >>>
> >>> They CAN be configured in a bridge mode if you desire, but you can
> >>> usually just put cero in front of it to do everything else
> >>> (shaping/wifi) and be golden.
> >>>
> >>> See the intertubes for how to switch to bridging verizon gear (if you
> >>> want to). It is overly complex.
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> There's actually even more nuance to it than that:
> >>
> >> FiOS (although, I thought that was owned by Frontier now? It certainly
> was
> >> when I had it up here [.wa.us]) with TV service requires MoCA
> (Multimedia
> >> over CoAxial), and thus requires the use of their (awful) combined
> >> router/wifi/MoCA bridge that connects to the ONT (Optical Network
> Terminal)
> >> over MoCA. In that case, you need to set it up to bridge to your own
> router
> >> behind it, &c.
> >>
> >> However, if you are using internet/phone-only FiOS service, you can get
> the
> >> service technician to hook your router directly to the ONT via
> Ethernet, as
> >> it supports both.
> >>
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> > I am using the weird double bridge through the FioS router into a
> > Netgear WNDR3800 and it is stable. The issue is that the Actiontec
> > box does not bring everything back up after power cycle (so it is on
> > a UPS).
> >
> > An alternative is to use a pair of MOCA modems to do MOCA to Ethernet
> > (and back to get to the DVR box). But it requires a bunch of changing
> > of MOCA frequencies; so I haven't gotten around to setting it up.
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