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Okay so I have a parabolic grid antenna with a Ubiquiti Bullet M5 set up and using a Cisco-Linksys WRT54G2 Wireless-G Broadband Router at the moment.

What I'm trying to do is set up a Verizon router I have laying around. When plugged in the internet lights orange when its suppose to light green. How would I go about this, would I need to change some router settings for it to work?

It's the Verizon FIOS Actiontec MI424WR Rev.I Router.
 
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yea they only work on FIOS. Their WAN ports don't pick up a regular signal or is it wired to be used on a regular lan to the answer is no you can't use it as a main router without FIOS. You just have to Disable the wireless on your WRT54G2 (Besides as a router this is better in my opinion. I hate FIOS routers) and then disable DHCP on the FIOS router, Give it a static IP thats out of the DHCP Address Pool, and then enable the wireless to what you want and connect a LAN port on the WRT to the LAN port on the FIOS Router.
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I got the same router at home.

So what internet do you have? Do you have Verizon Fios or no? Those Internet Lan jacks are made to get a specific signal from the Fios ONT (Optical Network Terminal) That gets installed when someone gets FIOS. I have never seen it used on a Non FIOS connection before.

What exactly are you trying to use it for? Are you just trying to get the Wireless N Feature out of it? Because honestly as a router and if you do gaming and what not it sucks because of the NAT settings.
 
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Yes, I would like to get the N feature out of it I suppose and no I do not have Fios anymore. I just can't get it to work with the internet I have right now
 
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This would work if I wanted to use it as the main router? I'm trying to make it the main router because the router connected now has poor coverage and for some reason I can only have 5 devices connected to it at once.
 
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That router is a little strange since it can run wan on the ethernet or the coax. You would have to go in and force it to use the ethernet port and then hope you could get a IP via DHCP. I would suspect you can set the WAN ip statically but I have not actually had one of those unit. If verizon has done something special to make it only work on FIOS then I don't know.
 
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yea they only work on FIOS. Their WAN ports don't pick up a regular signal or is it wired to be used on a regular lan to the answer is no you can't use it as a main router without FIOS. You just have to Disable the wireless on your WRT54G2 (Besides as a router this is better in my opinion. I hate FIOS routers) and then disable DHCP on the FIOS router, Give it a static IP thats out of the DHCP Address Pool, and then enable the wireless to what you want and connect a LAN port on the WRT to the LAN port on the FIOS Router.
 
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