demodulator, can serve as a home A/V broadcasting station, includes a 40Gb hard drive for recording and time-shifting, and a load of A/V ports. The Network element is an Ethernet hub and a wifi hotspot. The two elements can be linked via Ethernet, wifi or High-Speed Networking Over the Mains. The telephony offer via the Freebox offers various services such as free calls between Freebox subscribers and towards the fixed numbers in Metropolitan France, and also free over 100 foreign countries (USA, Canada, UK, Spain, China, India, South America, etc.). According to Alexandre Archambault from Free, the Freebox is "nothing other than the return to the fundamentals of the DSL", whose initial objective was "to connect via a single support several types of terminals, therefore several types of services: telephone (telephony), microcomputer (Internet access), television set (television transmission, video on demand, pay per view...), hi-fi system (radios, etc.)". Therefore, it is much more than a simple ADSL modem, which can only make the interface between a computer and the Internet. Free general conditions describe it as "an electronic instrument being used as interface between the data-processing and or audio-visual equipment of the user and the network of Free Telecom". Technical features The box is managed by an operating system using a derivative of the Linux kernel. It has many interfaces: An Ethernet port 10/100 Mbit/s full/half duplex; A USB 2.0 port; An HDMI port; An RJ11 jack for the ADSL connection; An RJ11 jack for phone equipment (two jacks on versions 1 & 2 but only one active); A SCART socket A digital audio output RCA, or optical S/PDIF starting from version 3; An extension port of the serial ATA standard on versions 3 and 4 and parallel ATA standard on versions 1 and 2; A host USB port on version 4; Since version 3, the Freebox can be configured to act as a router. The Freebox version 4 appeared mid-2004 and includes a chipset compatible with the ADSL 2+ standard, as well as a USB port, which will allow, in the long term, the addition of functions such as videoconferencing. The Freebox OS uses BusyBox. Now with the v3 (and next), it also provides a VideoLAN client in order to get the movies (in any format VLC understands) stored on the computer and watchable on TV through a playlist selector. This functionality is named Freeplayer. In the same way,