So here is a shot of the equipment Verizon put up in my closet. It is the Optical Network Terminal, which connects the phone line to the fiber, and runs coax to the tv's and the router. That way we have internet and TV, along with no more copper phone lines. It also has a battery backup for about eight hours, in case power goes out so that you can still make phone calls, since fiber needs electricity to work. So the coax splits, connecting the set top boxes and the router to the ONT, and also allowing the set top box to communicate over the internet through the router to get programming information. And soon I will screw around with this some more to tweak some more speed out of these nice shiny fibers.