"No DSL modem comes with more than one ethernet port. "

Your posts indicate intelligence, are logical and all that, but this one time you erred. Claimed a negative. You know better.

Two 2WIRE modems I know (and actually did the setup) have four RJ45s as well as four channel 802.11. (g I think)

Of course you could argue that these are routers or whatever, but really fastforwarding through the argument which would be fruitless anyway, how different is it ? Isn't the DSL MODEM just a router or switch that connects to a "slightly" bigger network ?

Two ways of thinking about it but I think neither is wrong.

J