My network started having all sorts of problems lately, and I ultimately got it fixed, but it raised a question about the Almond+'s routing function. On my network, my cable modem / gateway is set to bridged mode, and the Almond+ handles dhcp and routing. I also had a pair of TiVos on the coax using MoCa, one of them also connected to the almond by Ethernet and acting as a bridge for the other. I had reconfigured the almond to assign IP addresses in the 192 range, but my devices were all taking addresses in the 10.0.0.x range, and thus not talking to the things with fixed addresses. I connected to 10.0.0.1 and found my neighbor's Comcast modem, which said all my devices were connected to it through MoCa. I turned off MoCa on the bridging TiVo, and everything retuned to normal, after some reboots.
So the question (aside from why Comcast isn't properly isolating customers and why TiVo doesn't let you secure the MoCa network) is, why did the Almond let the neighbor's router take over? Is it normal that a rouge router on a LAN port takes precedence over the built-in router? Can I block that? I now know the MoCa is a security risk unless I put my own filter on it, so I won't go back to that setup, but would like to know for the future
