... megabits per second. Theyuse the cable as a broadcast medium, rather likean Ethernet, and suffer from the same load problems: you share the speed with the other users of the cable. There are also ... superior to telephones. The cable modem is effectively a bridge between the cable and an Ethernet. From the FreeBSD point of view, the cable modem looks likejust another Ethernet device.• DSL ... hand, the total bandwidth of thesemodems should not exceed the uplink bandwidth by too much—let’ssay it shouldn’tbemore than double the uplink bandwidth. On the other hand, you want to be able...