Hi all,
I just had FIOS installed in my new house and came prepared with my own Quantum gateway (from a friend). When the tech set it up, he told me that he had to "mount" his own Quantum gateway in my basement. He said it'd be free of charge, so I said sure. It turns out he then only wired exactly one coax outlet to be live, which is where I currently have one TV located.
Anyway, of course the wireless can't reach the top floor of my house so I'm trying to set up some type of network extender and thought it might be nice to use the extra Quantum gateway I already have. Since the install tech only setup one coax outlet, I have to split it with the set-top box. So far, my setup is as follows:
My primary Quantuam gateway in the basement is located at 192.168.1.1 and DHCP setup to hand out IPs until 192.168.1.150. Then, my second Quantum gateway located upstairs next to my set top box is set to have IP address 192.168.1.151 and its DHCP hands out IP address until 254. I have them setup on different wireless SSIDs so I can know which one I'm working on.
This setup has a few issues: First is that the secondary Quantum router never sees that it has WAN access, so the globe icon is always red. Second is that I can only get devices to work properly on the secondary Quantum router if I manually enter IP address info and specify the DNS and gateway as 192.168.1.1. If my devices rely on its DHCP, they can't access the internet, only the LAN. I also have no idea how the secondary Quantum router will interfere with my set-top box.
Ultimately, I could just spend the extra $100 on the FIOS network extender but I think I'm pretty close to getting this setup to work. I also couldn't set it up on any other coax cable since the tech only connected the single coax cable. Would Verizon send another tech back out to crimp and cap the other wires to activate the other coax outlets? My home actually has a 6-way coax splitter with all the wires dangling, but the tech chose to circumvent that to only connect the one coax outlet.
Thanks for any help!