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

Wed Mar 19 09:26:09 EDT 2014

If your WNDR3800 is directly connected to the ONT with ethernet then
you only need to configure the actiontech in bridge mode and connect
an ethernet from a WNDR3800 LAN port to an actiontech LAN port (not
WAN), then it will act as an ethernet to coax bridge.

If you have only a coax network, then you'd need a double bridge like
Stephen mentioned. There's guides on dslreports to use a custom router
with FiOS.

However, getting caller ID on settop boxes and other features I
haven't been able to do yet, it requires some advanced port forwarding
or something.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Frits Riep <riep at riepnet.com> wrote:
> 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  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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> From: Ernesto Elias <ernestogelias at gmail.com>
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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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> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:43:05 -0700
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> From: Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>
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> The wan port of cero should be plugged into the the lan port of the
> actiontec, not the reverse.
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> You probably want to configure the actiontec as a bridge in this instance if
> it isn't already.
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Ernesto Elias <ernestogelias at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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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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> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:57:27 -0700
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> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
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> It is rather complex, you have to make the FIOS router act as a double
> bridge.
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> 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
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> Does this help?
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