- Feb 22, 2016
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I have a Verizon Router which I would like to move to the living room (as it was installed in the far corner of the house and I would like it to be in a more central location). I planned to move the router and connect it to the coax wall outlet that a working set top box was previously attached to (I was thinking about using a splitter to connect both the router and set top box to the same coax outlet).
I wanted to make sure that this would work, so I moved the router, attached it to the coax outlet (plugged it in as well obviously), and thought that it had worked because after a moment the network appeared on my phone. However, though the network appeared and I could connect to it, my phone could not access the internet through it. Neither could my computer. Upon further investigation, I noticed only two lights flickering "Power" and "Wireless." Now that I have moved it back, "WAN Coax" and "LAN Coax" are on as well as "Internet." I seems that the router did not sense that it was plugged in to the Coax outlet (typing in the router's IP address and logging in with the given password revealed "Cable Disconnected" under the Coax/Ethernet cable section)
I have already tried holding the reset button on the router for 15 seconds and turning it on and back off again. I have also tried restarting my computer and phone
Can you attach even the router to a set top box's coax outlet? Or does it require more set-up than that? And if my proposed setup won't work, do you have better ideas?
Thanks in advance
I wanted to make sure that this would work, so I moved the router, attached it to the coax outlet (plugged it in as well obviously), and thought that it had worked because after a moment the network appeared on my phone. However, though the network appeared and I could connect to it, my phone could not access the internet through it. Neither could my computer. Upon further investigation, I noticed only two lights flickering "Power" and "Wireless." Now that I have moved it back, "WAN Coax" and "LAN Coax" are on as well as "Internet." I seems that the router did not sense that it was plugged in to the Coax outlet (typing in the router's IP address and logging in with the given password revealed "Cable Disconnected" under the Coax/Ethernet cable section)
I have already tried holding the reset button on the router for 15 seconds and turning it on and back off again. I have also tried restarting my computer and phone
Can you attach even the router to a set top box's coax outlet? Or does it require more set-up than that? And if my proposed setup won't work, do you have better ideas?
Thanks in advance
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