[Bloat] Question about Buffer Bloat and Verizon Fios

[Antonio Ortiz]

I'm going to order them from Amazon. A pair of moca is $110.00. Thanks

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> 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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