So, I have recently switched to FIOS and have done quite a bit of wiring in my house as part of an extensive renovation.
I want to reuse my old cable/modem router as a wireless range extender. I just realized this router (a Motorola Surfboard 6580) does not have a WAN port, just 4 LAN ports and a coax cable where it used to get the signal from. Where I want to put the router has a wired Ethernet wall port connected to my FIOS router but no COAX cable.
A few things:
1. I am cheap. I want to reuse the router. I know I could buy a router with a WAN port.
2. Where I want to put the router has little to no existing wireless signal, so using the wire signal from the FIOS router is not optimal.
3. My setup would be FIOS Router/Modem --> Ethernet Cable --> MOCA Adapter? --> Coax Cable --> Old modem/router set up as a range extender
So would this work? Is my old modem/router smart enough to detect an incoming signal on the LAN ports meaning I wouldn't need to do anything special. Does a MOCA adapter work Ethernet --> Coax or only Coax --> Ethernet?
I want to reuse my old cable/modem router as a wireless range extender. I just realized this router (a Motorola Surfboard 6580) does not have a WAN port, just 4 LAN ports and a coax cable where it used to get the signal from. Where I want to put the router has a wired Ethernet wall port connected to my FIOS router but no COAX cable.
A few things:
1. I am cheap. I want to reuse the router. I know I could buy a router with a WAN port.
2. Where I want to put the router has little to no existing wireless signal, so using the wire signal from the FIOS router is not optimal.
3. My setup would be FIOS Router/Modem --> Ethernet Cable --> MOCA Adapter? --> Coax Cable --> Old modem/router set up as a range extender
So would this work? Is my old modem/router smart enough to detect an incoming signal on the LAN ports meaning I wouldn't need to do anything special. Does a MOCA adapter work Ethernet --> Coax or only Coax --> Ethernet?