To confirm. It is my understanding that I can contact Verizon and have them turn on an ethernet connection from the outside box into the house. I will then run this directly into my firewall/router setup.
While doing this, I can continue to use the coax connection into the Actiontec router and maintain all TV functions?
I do not use Verizon for phone so I am not worried about any of those services. In fact, I am doing this because I have an Asterisk PBX and I have had it with the QoS issues. Currently I sit my pfsense setup directly behind the Actiontec, and I manage all QoS in pfsense, but the Actiontec router still chokes up sometimes when I am making calls and the kids are streaming. This should not be happening with the upgraded bandwidth I am signed up for. By getting the Actiontec out of the loop I am hoping to have much better control over my bandwidth.