Looking for a 2-line set-top box to connect to my ...

Looking for a 2-line set-top box to connect to my router, is there one?
Caps

Hi,
I am not sure I can help on a Utility for doing this.
Again my Sagem router tells me the speed it is connecting to.
A Basic (I think what the service is supposed to be) on the front page and a Statistic item I get slightly different readings from.
The second are much closer to the Speeds I get from here
http://www.speedtest.net/
IPNetmonitor used to be a trial download as well.
It can do things like Trace Routes (you put in an IP and it will tell you the pings times to all the intervening servers).
I did use it some time ago as it then listed it did Port Scans on UDP (The Network Utility from Apple only does TCP and iChat uses UDP ports).
I have not come across anything that would tell me the Cable length to the Exchange. (So many factors that could make a measurement difficult to calibrate).
10:23 PM Wednesday; August 25, 2010

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