My installation is very, very old though I have been told by a Verizon tech that if you get very high-speed Internet service (100 Mbps/100Mbps or higher) that is still the way it's done.
#VERIZON FIOS SELF INSTALL ACTIVATION TV#
This is needed for the TV signal and programming guide for your set top boxes (if you have FIOS TV service). The coax connector is a converter that converts Ethernet to a TV signal and Ethernet-over-coax (also called MoCA, which stands for Multimedia over Coax Alliance). The Actiontec router also supplies wireless Internet service. The Ethernet cable goes into (the Internet side of) the Verizon router which has several other Ethernet ports and one coax connector.
#VERIZON FIOS SELF INSTALL ACTIVATION PLUS#
In my house, it is converted to an Ethernet cable (that is the same type of cable that plugs into a computer or router) plus a POTS (plain old telephone system) cable for my phone service. A fiber optic line goes into the ONT and is converted to a one of two things. That's what the optical network terminal (ONT) does for you. However, just like the DSL signals, the different types of data needs to be separated (and possibly converted). The fiber optic cable has enough bandwidth to handle your Internet, phone and television data at the same time. If your apartment has never had FIOS installed before (It doesn't matter if it was you or someone else that had it.), they may have to run a fiber optic line from the nearest optical splitter to to your apartment. (If you had never had phone service before they would have had to send a tech out for that installation, too.)įIOS runs over fiber optic cable, not copper wires. to keep the voice and DSL signals separate, you just hooked up the DSL router (without a filter) to the phone line. After installing filters on all your phones, fax machines, answering machines, etc. Just to expand on the expansion of the expansionÄSL ran over the same pair of copper wires you had for land-line telephone service.