I have a Primary Fios Router connected using COAX. There is a spitter on outside of house that connects coax from the Router to ONT. I have a second splitter with DirectV Coax Connections running to the various TV's in my house. These two spitters are seperate.
I want to get wifi on the other side of the house so a friend gave me a FIOS router and suggested I use it to as a way to use coax instead of running ethernet cables. After I got the router I realized it won't work since the directV coax and fios coax are seperate.
One of the bedrooms doesn't have a tv on it but has a coax connection on another splitter. That splitter connects into the direcTV spillter mentioned before. Before I ran another coax cable I put a coax connection between the fios splitter and directv splitter.
The DirecTV was fine the FIOS WAN connection disconnected. I rebooted the FIOS router and the WAN port said disconnected. As soon as I removed the COAX connection from direcTV the WAN was re-connected and internet came back.
Anyone know why this would happen?
If I switched to the ethernet port instead of using the COAX on the primary Fios router and connected the secondary FIOS router back on coax into the fios splitter would the secondary FIOS communicate to the primary router?
If that works my final question/test would be to make a coax connection again between the fios splitter and directV splitter and see if the primary fios router still works then I can connect the secondary fios router into one of the bedrooom directv coax connections giving the other side of the house wifi.
Thanks, Jim