Frontier: if you don't buy your router, we'll charge you a rental fee; if you DO buy your router, we'll charge you a "support" fee

The MOCA bridge is actually the special sauce and why I use the verizon router. But, I’m probably an edge case where I want the MOCA network.

Do the Verizon cable boxes need the MOCA support too? I thought that was how they worked. I don’t have a cable box to know.

In the old days, that support let you put the router wherever you had a coax jack, connecting to the ONT that way. But, these days with the faster speeds, you need the ethernet connection to the ONT anyway.