Originally Posted By: tonyc
I'm totally with you on the FiOS thing. I love the Internet and TV services, but the Actiontec wireless router they want you to use is a nightmware to configure. The performance is okay, and has the many of the advanced things you'd want on a router, but the administrative interface is so goddamn clunky that it's hard to make simple changes.

The interface is enough reason to switch to something else, but the main reason I wanted to use something else is that the Actiontec is 802.11g with 10/100 ports. I wanted the 5GHz channel which is far less crowded in my complex, and I wanted 802.11n for HD video streaming.

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So, like you, I've tried to make it do the bare minimum for my network, but it's a giant hassle. The recommended solution for getting all of the services including on-demand video and remote DVR scheduling requires you to use *three* routers - the Actiontec, your primary router/gateway box, and a third router that just sits between them and serves up your external DHCP address to the Actiontec. That is apparently the *only* way to get remote DVR working unless you're okay with the Actiontec being the primary router. What a pain!

Ugh, that's just awful. I didn't even care about VOD because I'm using a Tivo, and I still need to have another router attached to my Actiontec. I should be able to replace it fully if I want to.
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Matt