You will receive more information about the required equipment when you sign-up for service. Expresslane DSL has an expanded coverage range. These rates are dependent on the distance of the user to the Central Office and can vary from as high as 6 Mbps to as low as 128 Kbps. Adapter Card - An electronics board installed in a PC, which provides a network interface to and from that computer. Bridge - A data communications device that connects two or more networks and forwards packets between them and function as routers.
Bridges read and filter packets and frames.
Bridges do not require IP addresses and will pass broadcast traffic. It allows multiple services like voice, data, video, etc. to transit over the network. DSL lines running from a subscriber s home connect at their serving Central Office. The CPE for DSL services is a DSL router or bridge. Firewall - A firewall is a set of related programs, located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from users from other networks.