Internet Sharing at home

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Faram

Hi everyone;

I have 2 computers at home and use dial up modem (one
phone line). can i use internet on both computers the
same time?i think no, because This is impossible 2
computers with one phone line, so how can connect both to
the internet? by the way they are not network too.

Thanks for any help,
Faram.
 
The only why you can share a dial-up connection between
two computers is to network them together. You can get a
couple of network cards, a hub and some cables for well
under $100. After that, XP has a utility built in to
configure internet sharing.
 
Faram said:
Hi everyone;

I have 2 computers at home and use dial up modem (one
phone line). can i use internet on both computers the
same time?i think no, because This is impossible 2
computers with one phone line, so how can connect both to
the internet? by the way they are not network too.

Thanks for any help,
Faram.
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A dial-up modem (56k) would struggle to cope with two users at the same
time.......
 
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Rifleman said:
A dial-up modem (56k) would struggle to cope with two users at the
same time.......
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That really depends on what the two users are doing. Back in the
days when we had a dial-up connection here (which *never* gave us
better than 28.8) my wife and I shared the line without a
problem. She used it almost exclusively for E-mail, and since she
didn't do a lot of E-mail, we hardly felt any impact of sharing
the line.

But you are certainly right that if both users are heavily
surfing the web at the same time, performance is likely to be
terrible.
 
Ken Blake said:
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That really depends on what the two users are doing. Back in the
days when we had a dial-up connection here (which *never* gave us
better than 28.8) my wife and I shared the line without a
problem. She used it almost exclusively for E-mail, and since she
didn't do a lot of E-mail, we hardly felt any impact of sharing
the line.

But you are certainly right that if both users are heavily
surfing the web at the same time, performance is likely to be
terrible.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Like Ken says, its depends on what each user is doing on the net.
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I have 3 Pc's running XP pro and one running Win98SE ( still excellent )
and we are networked via a hub and share one dial up internet connection.
It certainly does slowdown when used by more than one but most of the
time it is acceptable.
 
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