I've had two friends move in with me this weekend (long story, they
lost their lease suddenly and unexpectedly) into a 4 bedroom single-
family house in Burtonsville. They had Verizon networking and were
adamant about bringing it with them, and I was none too happy with
Comcast networking and video (lots of problems, another story), so I
was not that unhappy when we snipped the Comcast wires and brought in
FIOS.
There is an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) which is connected to a
branched coaxial cable that feeds the three set-top video boxes and
one modem-router-switch-wireless-access-point unit. The router will
service DHCP to all my wireless machines and the two
"server" (desktop) machines I have plugged into their switch.
However, under Comcast I had access to the router (I owned the modem
and a Linksys BEF4W11 something like that). I had it serve DHCP
addresses starting at 64 (192.168.1.64 and up) and reserved lower
addresses for my server machines, I had the Macintosh on 192.168.1.2
and the Linux machine on 192.168.1.3 and everything was well.
I don't have access to the FIOS configuration setup. My friends are
not technical people, so they don't know what I'm talking about, and
the service is not in my name, so it's not clear how I ask Verizon
about changing this situation. Does anybody have any experience with
Verizon FIOS networks with hardware like this? Is i reasonable for me
to ask for access to the router setup? I'd like to reserve a small
number of fixed IP addresses at the bottom, and open at least one port
from the outside world (I had 3 before, one for X, one for FTP, and
one for a Macintosh remote-management-access protocol,
and I'd like to at least have that third one reinstated)?
