Deitz Dittrich Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 So, if you have read my other post, I recently got a PS3.. I have Frontier for high speed at home. The PS3 and the modem are across a room from each other. I talked to a friend who told me that Frontier will not work with a regular wireless router. Anybody have expierience with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTro Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Well it seems to me if you have a signal (read network cable) coming in, you should be able to “route” it any way you wish. Whether it be Frontier on any other company.They might not service anything beyond the connection coming in, but I don’t have any idea as to why it wouldn’t work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upnorth Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 There should really be no good reason why it shouldn't work. Depending if the router hands out DHCP IP addresses or if you have to statically assign one. The wireless router would have an inside network(in the house) and an outside network(to the frontier router and the internet). The wireless router would just pass traffic from inside to outside to the Frontier router and then the Frontier router would go to the internet and bring data back and send it to the outside of the wireless router which in turn would send to the inside network. No real reason it shouldn't work. Routers don't really care who they talk to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott K Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 call Frontier technical service, they are very helpfull with any internet concerns involving their equipment. They speak english, and will walk you through, step by step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuleShack Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 log into the admin panel of the router to get your settings and configure the ps3 to match.The frontier router i was working with last week doesn't have one of those auto connect buttons unlike a linksys. SO you would have to set up with PW other than that you may have to check what channel the router is broadcasting on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deitz Dittrich Posted December 9, 2009 Author Share Posted December 9, 2009 uggg, you just sounded like the teacher in the old charlie brown cartoons.. Went way over my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuleShack Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 like 4WE said, call cust serv, they will walk you thru it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zamboni Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I have Frontier, and a PS3 and my NAT type is STRICT and have contacted them about fixing that and opening ports, and they tell me it is a Playstation problem, and PS tells me its a Frontier problem. I guess I am gonna live with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LwnmwnMan2 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 DD -I have the speedstream modem from frontier, run through a Belkin N+ router, with a Linksys range expander.If I can get that all to work, you can get your setup to work.One thing I WILL say, is that lately I have had a lot of dropping of the network.I think some of that might be because we have (2) desktop computers, (2) range expanders, Wii, PS3, a laptop and netbook running at any given time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upnorth Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Your network should easily handled about 15 devices per wireless access point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalupa Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I have frontier also and i setup a wireless router in my home, It worked ok for a short time but then it wasnt connecting and dropping signal all the time. After a call to their tech line They sent out a repair guy and after all was said and done they installed there own router and everything has worked great since. He explained it to me that some routers didnt work very well with there system for some reason. They came out and fixed this at no charge to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shnelson Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I have frontier at home & the in-laws house, both are working fine with a wireless router attached. I take it you must not have a wireless router from them? They set me up with a Siemens wireless router that actually works pretty good, but I have since disabled it and bridged it to my linksys because I like it better. You're basically telling the frontier router not to route, and to just pass the internet connection through to your own wireless router so it can do all of the work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey lee Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Frontier customer service may be ok but they offer terrible service.Every so often I have an e-mail that say its undeliverable with a code. I called Frontier CS and they sent me to [email protected]. They then sent me to another department and that group told me they had no idea what the code meant.Its Frontiers code. Great company. C'mon Version get into my area soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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