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How to use WRT150N with a Verizon Fios router please?

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mikehende

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Hello all, I have verizon fios service in my home so using their router which they had installed with their service. I wish to get wireless net connection in my detached garage but the fios is not reaching in the there so I had bought a POE Adapter which I plug into the AC Outlet in the garage and hard wired to my pc.

I now wish to get wireless signal in my yard so an IT tech told me I can use the same linksys WRT150N router I have had before getting the verizon service to connect to the POE adapter in the garage. I understand I would need to connect the POE adapter cable into the linksys router but I need instructions on how to get wireless internet from that point. Looking at the manual I am not understanding the procedure from here, can anyone help guide me please?
 
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POE is just a way to provide electricity to the Network Device. If there is an outlet in the garage you do need a POE, otherwise it is not needed.

As for the Network connection.

The best way is to run a CAT6 cable to the Garage and install the WRT150N as an Access point and connect it with a cable to the FIOS Router. ( Using Wireless Routers (or Modem/Wireless Router) as a Switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html ).

If you can not install a CAT 6 cable from the FIOS to the Garage the it depends on the actual enviroment and the capacity to install a Repeater or a Client Bridge.


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I had tried using a few range extenders in the garage to get net service in there but none of them worked so I got a TP-Link AV500 Powerline Adapter, plugged that into the AC Outlet in the garage and to my pc in there and get steady and strong internet. Without that adapter I can't connect to the net in there. Now I wish to get wireless internet in there so an IT Tech told me to get a router and connect it to the powerline adapter and connect my wireless devices to that router, not the router inside the house.
 
Well, what you describe now is another story then the one that is in youy have OP.

Take the WRT150 and connect it to a regular LAN port to the PowerLine with a CAT6 cable.

The config of the WRT150 is as describe in the link of my post above.


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JackMDS said:
POE is just a way to provide electricity to the Network Device. If there is an outlet in the garage you do need a POE, otherwise it is not needed.
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Yah, he means a Powerline adapter.

mikehende said:
Now I wish to get wireless internet in there so an IT Tech told me to get a router and connect it to the powerline adapter and connect my wireless devices to that router, not the router inside the house.
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You'll need to set the WRT150N up as an (Wireless) Access Point, and you should be able to connect it to the Powerline adapter in the garage.
 
Looking at the User Guide, I don't see an option for Access Point. The suggestions I have found via Google are confusing at best, so if you have trouble figuring out how to do it with the default firmware you could try flashing DD-WRT and following their guide.
 
Thx but I will first try their tech support tomorrow morning as most likely with my limited knowledge it would be best if I get one of their tech's to walk me through it. Will let you guys know.
 
Easily for you guys, thanks for the instructions but a lot of those things mentioned in that article are foreign to me. Only if I can't get the help from Linksys support in the morning to try to avoid frustrations will I attempt this.
 
I called back Linksys, they said that yes, I can use this router by plugging the powerline adapter into it in the garage, then I would only need to do the technical config to receive wireless signal from it in or outside of the garage.
 
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