Hi all,
I intend to keep this short an sweet, so please just hear me out. Im in my parent's house (still 😞 ) but I maintain their electronic gear. After a remodel a few years ago in which they added alot of tile and brick, but no ethernet ports, the WiFi signal in the house became very weak. I have been trying to get around the problem with ever more powerful routers, but during a chat with my uncle (who is a network admin), he told me to put another router in the basement of my house. Please see the cute drawing below.
The ONT is in the basement, while the only ethernet port is in the center of the house on the second floor. I disabled the verizon fios router's WiFi, and have an ASUS RT-AC3100 which I use for WiFi connectivity.
Here is my question, which is what my uncle suggested. Can I plug a wifi enabled router directly into the ONT, and then have an ethernet "out" port used to connect to the verizon router on the second floor? The reason I am unsure of trying this is due to the verizon router's use of a MoCa connection via coax, for the house's TV.
Current Setup: ONT ==ethernet==> Verizon Router ==ethernet==> ASUS Router
Proposed: ONT => Wifi Router A => Verizon Router => ASUS Router
Also, will this mess up IP addresses? I have the verizon router handle DHCP. What happens if I want that to remain the same?
