All:
I have searched alot on the Internet, and found a few "success stories", but am confused about a few things.
In short, there seems to be mixed experience on getting Frontier G1100s to work on Verizon FiOS in non-Frontier markets. Seems if you can restore to a VZ firmware backup, you can get up to latest 2.00 firmware.
I bought a used G1100 on ebay. Advertised as "Verizon" but didnt notice until after my low bid that it also had a frontier sticker on it on the last photo posted. It also has the "Verizon myfiosgateway" sticker on it. I only spent $20, not a rip off. So it seems it was originally Verizon, then taken over by Frontier?
When I first connected to it, it had firmware 01.04.00.10-FTR, and 01.03.01.12 (no -FTR) in the backup spot. Here's where I am stuck -- I know there was a deal between Verizon and Frontier, and i THINK Frontier bought Verizon markets from them. I was under the impression that the 1.03.* firmware thus was original Verizon and the -FTR is Frontier. I can swap back and forth with the restore utility between them, but cant get either to "update" when doing either WPS button presses for 10 secs, or pushing in the red reset button in the back for 10 seconds. Also odd - if I connect via "myfiosgateway" the web page logos are Verizon, and on 192.168.1.1, always Frontier.
Both firmware versions "work" as a user supplied router with Verizon, so its not a brick. However I am worried about relatively old firmware with the more recent security updates done on the G1100s (at least, by Verizon).
Questions:
(1) Is the 1.03.01.12 firmware actually old Verizon firmware - or did Frontier just not put -FTR at the end back then? - and should it be upgradeable with Verizon?
(2) I cant find "version histories". How old is 1.04.00.10-FTR? Is it relatively recent? Are the firmware versions basically numerically similar across them - ie are the latest both 2.0x? I know even 1.04-FTR doesnt have the merged SON feature that Verizon has in 2.0X (to merge the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands into a single broadcast SSID).
(3) I only have a Coax connection - any sense of whether it needs to be Ethernet?
(4) Anyone have any more specific suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks for any info.
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