Here in NY the cable companys' and Verizon's modems both connect to the outside world using coax. Is it like that everywhere? mostly everywhere?
I have AT&T gigabit fiber. Fiber from the pole to the house, through the wall, into a transceiver, which connects to the modem via a cat5e cable.<p>When I had AT&T DSL, it was standard telephone hookup to the DSL point of entry, then coax into the modem.