I have an existing install - was one of VZ's first FiOS installs in the area (2008) - and I've just ordered an upgrade to 500. Currently the old ONT runs everything off the coax. The coax runs from the ground level of the house and then inside, running within the interior walls to a closet in the master bedroom on the third level of the house, where their router currently sits along with my switch, patch panel, and my router. I'd estimate it's 75 feet, perhaps a bit more.

They're coming to the house to replace the ONT for the new service. I realize for the 500 service they will need to run ethernet from the new ONT. Will they really fish all that Ethernet cable up to where the switch/patch panel currently sit, or should I prepare for them to just drop it (and their new router) somewhere really inconvenient on the ground floor and then we'll have to run yet another cable from there up to the switch/panel/my router?

Thanks folks!

[Update: they won't. Luckily unbeknownst to me, the cat5 was already run from the ONT area to my wiring closet. Had that not been the case, I would have had to get it run myself. The tech said they can't do internal cable pulls like that. So, word to the wise: make sure you have a cable pulled from ONT area to wherever you want the router before the tech arrives.]