If you have fiber optics to the house then the box of electronics on the outside of your house provides an IP address to the wall jack. You can plug a computer directly into the wall jack but most people will have a wireless router if they have multiple devices that will access the internet. Essentially the "modem" is in the box of electronics on the outside of your house. What it really does is the optical to copper conversion - everything on the inside of your house is copper. That box also delivers a phone signal to phone jacks. If you want to save some money, buy one of the Voice-over-IP boxes such as Ooma or MagicJacks and drop your phone service with CenturyLink.
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Originally Posted by John_W
I've had Century Link internet and phone since July 2011 and have never had a modem, I live in Tamarind Grove.
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