Trying to get out of paying for additional set top boxes are you? Dude your ethereal is only for internet connections and has nothing to do with your TV, unless you have a smart TV that requires internet connection (Netflix, VUDU). Any outside router will have to be configured to the Verizon cable service, and unless you have a package that allows for this enhanced service you are out of luck and basically stealing their services.
A cable set top box is required for each TV to get any enhanced service PERIOD. See these instructions.
https://www.verizon.com/Support/Resi...sone/84832.htm
TV: FiOS TV is compatible with all TV types. A cable-ready TV tuner gives you reception of local service below channels 49. To take advantage of the FiOS TV Digital Video Recorder (DVR) service, a TV must have a video and audio input. The input can be the typical yellow, white and red cables, a 3 wire component, or an S-Video along with audio cables. High Definition (HDTV) service requires an HDTV, an HD Set-Top Box, and HDMI or DVI cables with an adapter.
Home wiring: Verizon FiOS TV requires coaxial cable to connect from the FiOS Optical Network Terminal on the outside of your home to your TV or Set-Top Box.
Set-Top Box: To receive digital programming, premium channels, the Interactive Media Guide or On Demand programming, a Set-Top Box is required. We offer three types of Set-Top Boxes:
- High Definition (HD) - provides digital audio and video quality. It gives you access to the FiOS TV Interactive Media Guide, access to over 45 all-digital music channels, and lets you order Pay-Per-View or On Demand shows where available and provides access to HD content.
- Multi-Room HD DVR - record and share programs across multiple TVs.
- Digital Video Recorder (DVR) - provides all the features of the High Definition Set-Top Box and lets you pause and rewind live TV as well as record one show while watching another.
Read the whole thing and its no wonder Verizon techs cannot aid you in stealing services from them.
It is illegal to tamper with the outside cable station and considered theft of service to do so. So to answer your questions yes let Verizon hook you up for quality service. They will even solve your wireless issues for you. That's better than spending big bucks for wires and routers that still must be correctly configured from the cable network service station, with the help of a Verizon tech. Simply they won't do it.
Your ethereal connections are for computer internet access from your wireless router, or direct from router to a the computer, smart TV (You must have service contract already with those streaming providers). TV is coaxial to either a set box, or direct from the outside station to the TV for BASIC cable services as per instructions above.