I have a Pace 5268 and 1 Cablebox connected via Coax. Yesterday on a whim I tried plugging in an ethernet cable and disconnected the coax, but nothing seems to have happened. I tried connecting to the router but http was timing out. I rebooted it, and went back to the living room and surprised to see the tv was working over ethernet. So now I want to try and proceed with messing around with my network some more. I have a mini m93 pc I installed PFSense on.
So I guess for now I'd like some more information. if I do the dmz+ method will the cabletv still work If plugged directly into the Pace box's coax? Will it work if its on the Pace's ethernet? Lastly will it work if I plug the cabletv ethernet into my next router? Whether it pfsense or my asus ac66u?
Small steps as plan to see how my network behaves under dmz+, then try the dumb switch swap to remove the Pace, and then eventually the PFsense box direct to the ONT.
This cablebox was the thorn in my side but knowing it does work over ethernet has put some hope back into the mix.
Also do the Pace ethernetports still work in dmz+ assuming devices have static IP's or i have dhcp running on a different device?
And I believe iptv is what it uses which I think broadcasts and can jack stuff up so this will eventually lean to vlanning, plus I had to run a new ethernet line from where the box is to my main pc area, so was debating another line by itself for the cable box if needed to segregate things.
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