[Cerowrt-devel] Verizon FIOS - How to use CeroWRT directly with interactive TV

Wed Mar 19 08:37:53 EDT 2014

I have a Verizon FIOS internet, and also use the interactive TV and phone
services using my WNDR-3800 with CeroWRT.

.         I have a 75 Mb/s down / 25 Mb/s up residential service in
Lexington MA

.         I have an WNDR3800 running CeroWRT 3.10.24-8 and it is directly
connected to the ONT (Optical Network Terminator), and no Verizon Router.

.         To get the interactive TV (guide, multi room dvr, and video on
demand) you need to bridge the ethernet LAN of the router to the TV Coax in
order to control the settop box and send the video content from the internet
to the settop box.

.         The easiest way to bridge the Ethernet network to the Coax is to
use a MoCA bridge (Media Over Coax Alliance).

.         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Alliance

.         D-link, Actiontec, and Netgear offer these MoCA bridges and they
are under $100.  You can run them with the factory defaults in this mode
(lan mode).  There is also a WAN mode if you want to use the COAX to the WAN
interface of the router which is useful if you only have COAX wiring in your
home and you want to locate your router in a different location from the ONT
Ethernet jack.

.         You need one MoCA bridge to interconnect the Coax to the standard
twisted pair Lan connection on your router.

.         The working topology is Verizon ONT Ethernet port to WAN interface
on CeroWRT router, Moca Bridge in one of the LAN interfaces.

.         Verizon residential service provides one public IP via DHCP, and
this IP is bound to the MAC address of the router (which is also typical of
residential services of cable providers such as Comcast).

.         To successfully connect the new router (and get a DHCP address),
you need to either clone the MAC address of the Verizon supplied router or
call Verizon and have them break the DHCP lease from their end.

I have successfully been running versions of CeroWRT for about six months,
and very much appreciate the great work to conquer Bufferbloat.  

I have had no issues on the WNDR-3800 getting full throughput of up to 80
mb/s down, 30 mb/s up using speedtest.net (with speed throttling off. The
throughput and latency results are excellent when I set the speed throttling
to 75 down / 25 up, per speedtest.net, pingtest.net and
<http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html> ICSI Netalyzr even on
wireless.  Running a ping test in command prompt also shows very low latency
even when running a full speedtest both up and down on both a wired or
wireless connection.

Thanks for the great work being done.  I am using this for our home network.
Should I update to the latest version 3.10.32-10 or is there a new stable in
the near future?

Thanks,

Frits Riep

Ekaru, LLC

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:34:10 -0400

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Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] Problem with Verizon fios router

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Hello everyone I'm having trouble with the actiontec router supplied by
Verizon fios, since I have the bundle service of TV and Internet I need the
fios router to be able to watch on demand but I ran into a problem. It's
that when I made the ont box go Ethernet to be able to use my wndr3800
running cerowrt on it to reduce buffer bloat and so I plugged an Ethernet
cable to one of the Lan port of the wndr3800 to the WAN port of the
actiontec it would seem that the set top boxes don't get a signal and when I
click on the remote to check diagnostic it says that the external network is
down and we'll I have question is there anything I have to do special for
the actiontec to get Internet connection to the stb?

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The wan port of cero should be plugged into the the lan port of the
actiontec, not the reverse.

You probably want to configure the actiontec as a bridge in this instance if
it isn't already.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Ernesto Elias <
<mailto:ernestogelias at gmail.com> ernestogelias at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone I'm having trouble with the actiontec router supplied 

> by Verizon fios, since I have the bundle service of TV and Internet I 

> need the fios router to be able to watch on demand but I ran into a 

> problem. It's that when I made the ont box go Ethernet to be able to 

> use my wndr3800 running cerowrt on it to reduce buffer bloat and so I 

> plugged an Ethernet cable to one of the Lan port of the wndr3800 to 

> the WAN port of the actiontec it would seem that the set top boxes 

> don't get a signal and when I click on the remote to check diagnostic 

> it says that the external network is down and we'll I have question is 

> there anything I have to do special for the actiontec to get Internet
connection to the stb?

> 

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:57:27 -0700

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It is rather complex, you have to make the FIOS router act as a double
bridge.

One bridge passes traffic from outside via COAX (ONT) to one RJ45 (CAT5) to
WDR3800 Other bridge passes traffic from another WDR3800 port back to coax
network to set top box

Does this help?

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