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Posted by on April 8, 2005, 8:21 am
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I'm getting (a trial of) Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-home product in a
couple of weeks, which comes with a special router (no idea what that
means). While I can hook my existing infrastructure up to it, my
trusty BEFSR41 has a 10BaseT WAN port and my FIOS is supposed to be
15M/2M.
I've found the Linksys/Cisco RV042 for $170 at Amazon, are there other
SOHO routers with 10/100 WAN ports I should be looking at? Does
anyone know the details of the Verizon FIOS router, and if it's safe
to use as a primary router?
There's some mention of how it's part of their infrastructure and can
run traffic analysis and other 'spyware' functions, plus they seem to
require I run their 'software' suite which appears to include
remote-control software and such, and I'd much rather have my own
firewall...
Thanks!
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Posted by glen herrmannsfeldt on April 8, 2005, 11:04 pm
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William wrote:
> I'm getting (a trial of) Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-home product in a
> couple of weeks, which comes with a special router (no idea what that
> means). While I can hook my existing infrastructure up to it, my
> trusty BEFSR41 has a 10BaseT WAN port and my FIOS is supposed to be
> 15M/2M.
> I've found the Linksys/Cisco RV042 for $170 at Amazon, are there other
> SOHO routers with 10/100 WAN ports I should be looking at?
(snip)
The Linksys WRT54G claims to have a 10/100 WAN port, and is usually
available for around $70 or so. You can turn off the wireless part if
you don't need that.
-- glen
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Posted by on April 9, 2005, 10:33 pm
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>The Linksys WRT54G claims to have a 10/100 WAN port, and is usually
>available for around $70 or so. You can turn off the wireless part if
>you don't need that.
Good thought, thanks! I called Verizon's FIOS line to ask some
questions, and they tried to tell me they use D-Link 624 routers, but
that can't be right, so I guess I'll see what they show up with and
have a Linksys on hand...
Thanks!
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Posted by Bob Vaughan on April 11, 2005, 11:18 am
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>William wrote:
>> I'm getting (a trial of) Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-home product in a
>> couple of weeks, which comes with a special router (no idea what that
>> means). While I can hook my existing infrastructure up to it, my
>> trusty BEFSR41 has a 10BaseT WAN port and my FIOS is supposed to be
>> 15M/2M.
>
>> I've found the Linksys/Cisco RV042 for $170 at Amazon, are there other
>> SOHO routers with 10/100 WAN ports I should be looking at?
>
>(snip)
>
>The Linksys WRT54G claims to have a 10/100 WAN port, and is usually
>available for around $70 or so. You can turn off the wireless part if
>you don't need that.
>
>-- glen
>
I've got a Netgear FR114P that has 10/100 ports on the WAN side..
I normally prefer to roll my own, using a FreeBSD box of some sort..
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