My phone box and coax cable external connection are on opposite ends of the house, aroung 100 ft apart. How will both be connected to the ONT?
My old phone box was not even included as a variable when I had FiOS installed a few years back. It doesn't factor into the installation equation. I'm not sure if things have changed, but I don't think it's anything you need to be concerned about.
@sailor104 wrote: My phone box and coax cable external connection are on opposite ends of the house, aroung 100 ft apart. How will both be connected to the ONT?
As Sangs said, the location of the "phone box" (NID) doesn't matter. With FiOS everything goes over the fiber - TV, Internet, and phone (assuming you are getting a triple play).
How does FIOS connect to my home phone internal wiring?
It's only on fiber until it gets to the ONT, which at my house will be outside. Coming out of the ONT is coax for the tv and internet and copper for the phone lines. Both of these have to connect to my existing wiring. I don't understand how they do that if the coax and phone connections in the house are far apart.
The FIOS fiber drop is "usually" installed following the same path as the existing copper drop.
If the existing NID and external coax connection are on the far side of the house, it may still make sense to install the ONT there as long as there is power available on the inside. This makes it east to tie into the existing phone wiring through the NID, even though the NID itself is no longer used. Also easy to tie into the existing coax.
If you're getting a tier less then 100Mbps, then the usual connection to the router is through coax, so the router can be placed anywhere you have an active coax connection.
VZ can tie into the coax and phone wiring at any point that it appears in the house. It doesn't have to be at the existing external appearance.
