Poor you. All you want to do is switch out your home router. But you’ve got Verizon FiOS, so there’s a good chance that the replacement router isn’t going to get an external IP address.
Here’s the deal.
You should have manually released the DHCP lease (on the outgoing router) and hoped that the little shit would communicate its success of doing so thereby allowing you to quickly unplug the power…all before the router renews the lease on you…
Yeah…lovely.
There’s a good chance you’re going to need to call Verizon (hopefully you’ve planned the router swap during off peak hours) and tell them to “break the lease on the backend”…but don’t actually tell them that. Be dumb.
Also, don’t mention that you’re not using their “wonderful” ActionTec router. That’s a no-no.