Here's a URL for the responses to the question I posted at Broadbandreports.com, the nut of it being everything connects using DHCP to the router. (BTW, the second poster is an exceptional member, and lives a town over - my own town won't get FIOS until 2009): http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17337627
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:06:58 -0500 (EST), Stanley Sidlov wrote:
>I don't find in the Verizon forum FAQ anything about windows being required. I do note
>that the firmware on some of thier supplied devices may not be up to date and that you may
>need to make some changes:
>http://www.dslreports.com/faq/verizonfios/3.0_Networking
>
>Some FIOS areas (NJ is one) not PPoE but plain DHCP service, but that's the router's
>problem. And I would say that either the router they are using is not properly configured
>to be DHCP to the LAN or is not acting as a NAT/DHCP device.
>
>
>On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:07:11 -0500, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>
>>This is from Julian Thomas who asked me to post this for him, as his
>>Verizon account is not yet subscribed o the list for posting:
>>
>>8<---------------------- snip ---------------------->8
>>
>>
>>Arrived at my brother's house in Belmont Mass last night. They have VZ
>>FIOS and a wired/wireless setup.
>>
>>Fired up my machine, went wireless, could see the router but nothing
>>past it. Went wired, same thing.
>>
>>Apparently VZ has some windows-only app that needs to be run on each
>>machine that connects before it will let you on.
>>
>>This is not the VZ router, it's my brother's regular linksys box.
>>
>>Am I screwed or does someone have a workaround other than using one of
>>their machines and this creaky webmail interface?
>>
>>jt
>>
>>
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