- Jul 12, 2004
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hey all, small project I am trying to help a friend with. He would like the ability to vpn into the office from home. In his office, he has verizon fios internet and video service with 2 ont boxes (I believe they split the pots lines up, half and half on each ONT).
The problem I am coming across is that if I hook up a vpn box to the ont ethernet port (disable actiontec), I lose all functionality for video services that he wants to keep (eg on demand, streaming, etc) because I have to take the actiontec router out of the loop.
I tested this at my house with a soho type vpn box, and though vpn might work, I lose all my video service features that would normally rely on the actiontec router.
Has anyone done this where they keep the actiontec router for the video, but set up vpn on another box?
Would appreciate any feedback.
The problem I am coming across is that if I hook up a vpn box to the ont ethernet port (disable actiontec), I lose all functionality for video services that he wants to keep (eg on demand, streaming, etc) because I have to take the actiontec router out of the loop.
I tested this at my house with a soho type vpn box, and though vpn might work, I lose all my video service features that would normally rely on the actiontec router.
Has anyone done this where they keep the actiontec router for the video, but set up vpn on another box?
Would appreciate any feedback.