I thought I understood this better but I guess I didn't fully understand how FIOS worked...
In our new house we have three levels, a finished basement, a main floor, and a second floor with bedrooms. The plan was to have the TV, consoles, etc. in the basement (so an ethernet connection would be ideal), and an office (aka gaming PC) on the second floor in one of the small bedrooms (so also a good place for an ethernet connection). Wifi everywhere else would be fine.
The Verizon ONT is in a corner of the basement. On the opposite side of the basement is a coax cable outlet (which I assume is wired to the ONT!). Two floors up in one of the bedrooms is another coax outlet. So far this all seemed good, with coax outlets in the vicinity of where we wanted wired connections.
However, with Verizon FIOS if we're using the coax cables it sounds like, from my reading, we have to use their Verizon router. And if we're using their Verizon router, it sounds like they only support one (and a Verizon router upstairs and downstairs anyways doesn't seem like the most economical solution?). However, if the ONT has the ethernet switched on (is that something we can ask the technician to do when he's out?), then we can use any router we want...but then I don't have ethernet running anywhere, and running it seems like a pain that I have no experience with.
Am I misunderstanding any of how this all works? What I may end up doing then is just setting up the router in the basement and keeping the TV (streaming!) and consoles hard-wired, and just accept the wifi on my PC. That's not a huge deal, I don't play online games much or anything.
I guess in theory I could run ethernet along the same path they obviously ran the coax upstairs (up the outside wall)?
Unrelated question: The previous occupants painted over the upstairs coax outlet rendering it unusuable. I assume it's as easy as it looks to pop it off and put on a new one?
Edit: Sorry! Something I missed here are MoCa adapters. If I understand correctly, that's all I need to turn the coax input into an ethernet output? Are there any catches with doing that? From quick googling (as you can guess, that's how I'm looking into this) it sounds like there may be more bandwidth limitations?
In our new house we have three levels, a finished basement, a main floor, and a second floor with bedrooms. The plan was to have the TV, consoles, etc. in the basement (so an ethernet connection would be ideal), and an office (aka gaming PC) on the second floor in one of the small bedrooms (so also a good place for an ethernet connection). Wifi everywhere else would be fine.
The Verizon ONT is in a corner of the basement. On the opposite side of the basement is a coax cable outlet (which I assume is wired to the ONT!). Two floors up in one of the bedrooms is another coax outlet. So far this all seemed good, with coax outlets in the vicinity of where we wanted wired connections.
However, with Verizon FIOS if we're using the coax cables it sounds like, from my reading, we have to use their Verizon router. And if we're using their Verizon router, it sounds like they only support one (and a Verizon router upstairs and downstairs anyways doesn't seem like the most economical solution?). However, if the ONT has the ethernet switched on (is that something we can ask the technician to do when he's out?), then we can use any router we want...but then I don't have ethernet running anywhere, and running it seems like a pain that I have no experience with.
Am I misunderstanding any of how this all works? What I may end up doing then is just setting up the router in the basement and keeping the TV (streaming!) and consoles hard-wired, and just accept the wifi on my PC. That's not a huge deal, I don't play online games much or anything.
I guess in theory I could run ethernet along the same path they obviously ran the coax upstairs (up the outside wall)?
Unrelated question: The previous occupants painted over the upstairs coax outlet rendering it unusuable. I assume it's as easy as it looks to pop it off and put on a new one?
Edit: Sorry! Something I missed here are MoCa adapters. If I understand correctly, that's all I need to turn the coax input into an ethernet output? Are there any catches with doing that? From quick googling (as you can guess, that's how I'm looking into this) it sounds like there may be more bandwidth limitations?
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