vpn access with verizon fios

[nervegrind3r]

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.

 

[jlazzaro]

you must keep the actiontec connected as it controls the STB's. DSL reports has a thorough FAQ on all your options. see sections 3.0 and 3.1

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/verizonfios

 

[VirtualLarry]

I do this. I have FIOS at home, along with an HD video package. I have coax going from the ONT to a splitter, and from there to the STB and to the ActionTec router. I plugged a secondary DD-WRT N router into the ActionTec router, and set the local LAN IP address to a different subnet, and then put that router in the DMZ of the ActionTec.

Seems to work fine, although sometimes it hangs while browsing, on some sort of google ad network server. But I noticed that it did that some times while not even on VPN, just browsing from computers on my local LAN already, so I don't know what's up with that. Problems with Verizon's DNS servers?

Edit: I tested it again the other day. Still cannot load the page at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows7/

For some reason that page won't load. Also, trying to download MPC-HC installer off of sourceforge.com, hangs on a.fsdn.com. I can do an nslookup from the command-line and get an IP, so DNS is not the problem.

 

[nervegrind3r]

I have a linksys rv042 I was planning on adding just for vpn access into his network. Should it still work plugging into the actiontec on a different subnet?

 

[alent1234]

use a service like log me in or one of the others. can't remember all the names.

 

[kevnich2]

Another option would be to simply switch data from the moca to ethernet, then use a moca bridge for your STB's and take the actiontec completely out of the picture. They usually bring internet/data over ethernet anyway for business setups.

Just pick this up and connect it to your choice of router and your STB's then get it's guide data, etc.: http://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-Ethe...4454702&sr=8-1