Not exactly. Pretty much all of the backbones are fiber with coax for the run to your house. The exception is CenturyLink in many, but not all, parts of The Villages. I live between 466a and 44 and I have fiber optic cable to the house. It goes into the ONT box bolted to the outside of my house. From the ONT box , there is a home run of cat5 (Ethernet) cable to an RJ-45 jack in a room that we specified. Typically you will plug a router into the RJ-45 jack as CenturyLink is delivering a dynamic IP address to you at that point. No need for a “modem” as that functionality is handled by the electronics in the ONT. From a practical point of view, whether that last 100 feet to your house is coax (as with Comcast and Spectrum) or fiber optics ( as with much of CenturyLink) is most irrelevant. What I do like about CenturyLink is that I only need a router (any router) and not possibly specific models of a “modem/router” since the ONT handles the “modem” functionality as part of the fiber to cat5 conversion.
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Originally Posted by Pedrocarrasco01@yahoo.com
Misunderstood Aspect that companies don’t really want you to know is Fiber optical cable is what is in your Nearest box in the yard, however the cable that goes to your home and the cable in your home that connects to your WiFi and TV, is NOT FIBER OPTICAL CABLE but regular wire cable, big misunderstanding, companies touted Fiber optics But Your home and the buried cable outside your home is regular wires.
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