one issue I seem to be having is that the hardware required seems to be mated to each other. with the high speed max your modem is also wireless so its one unit. With the fiber optic it requires a seperate unit for both. A modem that recieved the inbound fiber optic, which then transmits out through an ethernet cable to the wireless gateway they send. 2 problems with this setup. the modem has 4 ethernet ports located on the back, yet only one sends out a signal, which also only works when sent to the gateway. If directly connected to a laptop or pc( using ethernet of course) I get no connection. if run out to another router I have ( dlink di-604) it appears to indicate that its working, until attempting to connect on anything. the dlink is a wired router( theres a reason im trying to hook this up to, but ill get to that in a second.)
The weird thing is, i get no connection when im hooked up to the dlink directly. if i run an ethernet cable from the dlink to the gateway i get full access again on wireless. still cant get a signal from the dlink. If i run a cable from the gateway to the same laptop i can get wired access. so apparently as long as the modem see's the gateway somewheres in the chain it will work( from the gateway itself at least).
The reason im trying to use the dlink is because im using a pc running Windows Home Server. for access externally to whs it needs to configure the necessary ports on the router using Upnp. The 2wire gateway doesnt allow Upnp, hence the attempt to get the dlink in the mix to by-pass the gateway. And to make things that much better after moving server to another location to allow a direct connect to internet..... I got a BSOD error 0x0000000a
. so it was a long night with my first shot at Fiber Optic lol