I have FIOS, and although I remember during the install I asked can i switch my router, and they told me it was transparent, you still need to get the HW address and pass that to their ISP staff. Normally that's done with special software, which is windows and/or mac, but I once had to do this with Comcast also (they wanted money for the switch!!!!), but so far didn't have to do this with Verizon.
Within the same company you "could" fake the HW address, I remember my linksys router that was running a linux-version you could fake it, but I've never tried that. - peter On [Thu Apr 10 16:59], Charles Cranston wrote: > 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)?
