I live in a house that had Verizon (now Frontier) FiOS when I bought it. The ONT is in my garage, and connectivity into the house is solely via coax cable. When I moved in and set up service in my name the tech basically looked at the massive number of cables coming in the house and told me to "pick one" - so the connectivity for my service is a single cable into my living room from the ONT.
For a decade I've used a Verizon (Actiontec) MI424WR connected to this cable and it's essentially done it's job. HOWEVER - I now have a (work) laptop that is acting poorly because of this device using a single SID for both 2.4 and 5Ghz connections. (It's a MacBook pro)
Aside from the above issue - I want to start to use a (slightly) more modern router general - and of course a coax input is about as rare as hen's teeth. Running an Ethernet cable from the ONT isn't "impossible" - but it's going to be both difficult and expensive to do so. What I thought I could simply do is buy a Frontier MoCA device (an FCA251) and put it in place of the Verizon router (coax to the ONT) and connect my new Wi-Fi router to the MoCA Ethernet port.
The issue is the MoCA is not connecting to my broadband. I'm able to connect to the MoCA device via the Wi-Fi router (after applying a static IP to its WAN port in the MoCAs subnet) - but the connection state of the MoCA to the "broadband" (ONT) never shows connected. I spent a good deal of time on the phone with Frontier tech support (who I feel fairly confident had no idea what I was actually trying to accomplish) and after numerous resets of the MoCA and the ONT the decided course of action was to send a tech here next week.
Am I correct in thinking this should work and possibly have a bad MoCA or other issue? Or am I wrong and this is not how a MoCA device can be used?
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