I'm trying to use my own personal router, while keeping the Verizon Actiontec in the loop to provide a MoCA network, as demonstrated in this picture: http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1520441~0a77a96047566870783c80e88baa78a7/PRILANtoWAN.jpg
I have successfully switch the ONT to Ethernet WAN and that part is working fine. But I'm having some strange issues.
1) When I had my personal router connected to the Actiontec via LAN-to-WAN, as shown in the picture, the Actiontec seemed to be competing with my personal router to see which would be controlling the network and assigning IP addresses. So all of my computers would periodically lose the internet connection for a few minutes, then regain it for awhile, then lose it, and so on and so forth. I think this was as the two routers competed with each other.
2) So I tried to set everything on the Actiontec to bridge mode, which seemed to solve the problem, until the next morning I woke up, and my MoCA connection was dead. The computers on ethernet (connected to my personal router) still had a connection, but my Tivo Mini (over MoCA to the Actiontec) had no connection.
3) So I changed the connection from my personal router to the Actiontech to LAN-to-LAN (i.e., I connected to a LAN port of the Actiontec, rather than the WAN port of the Actiontec), and now my computers have a connection and my Tivo Mini (MoCA) has a connection. But this has introduced a weird problem: some of my WIFI devices are not getting internet access. When I check their IP, it seems that they are somehow being assigned an IP from the Actiontec, rather than my personal router, and that this is causing them to lose internet connectivity. I have no idea how or why the Actiontec is trying to assign IPs to WIFI devices, since (a) wifi on the Actiontec is turned OFF, and (b) I've done everything I can do put the Actiontec into bridge mode and tell it not to assign IP addresses.
Does anybody have any advice on how to make this setup work? I know it can be done. I assume that I have something wrong in the Actiontec's settings, since it seems to be screwing things up. Literally all I need it for is to provide a MoCA connection to my Tivo Mini. Otherwise it serves no purpose. Any advice greatly appreciated.
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