I recently moved into a townhome and signed up for 150/150 mbps internet service and phone and TV package. Verizon technician came to install the FIOS ONT and G1100 router. He told me that since there was no Ethernet cable running from garage to the house, if I wanted to get 150 /150, he had to install the router in the garage. I agreed.
But after he left, I found out the wifi signal in my 3rd floor bedrooms was really poor so I am thinking of moving the router to 2nd floor living room to get better signal throughout the entire house. But I only have coax cable in the living room and according to the technician, the maximum speed I get will be 100 /100 mbps. Well even in the garage I never got 150 /150 as promised, the most I got was like 90 /90 mbps. So maybe this was not an issue after all.
I wanted to do the moving myself but don't know how to connect the router:
in the garage its like this now: ONT -->ethernet cable -->router WAN port, ONT -->coax cable --> 5-way splitter --> 4 coax go inside the house, 1 goes back to router coxa port (what's its purpose?).
In the living room, I currently have coax cable --> STB, if I move my router here, I'd assume I need a 2-way splitter, one to STB, the 2nd to the router on coax port, and maybe an ethernet cable from STB to one of the 4 Ethernet LAN port on the router? Is this right? And is there any setting in the ONT to tell it to send internet traffic throught COAX instead of Ethernet port?