[Bloat] Question about Buffer Bloat and Verizon Fios

[games at djlatino.com]

Great to know because I thought It might be just plug and play and run 
into these issues with the frequencies. 

On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:12:21 -0700, Stephen Hemminger  wrote:

       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  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  wrote:
>
> On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:56:48 -0700
> Alex Elsayed  wrote:
>
>> Dave Taht wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:05 AM,   wrote:
>>
>>>> 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. 
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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