phone line splitter

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eddy long

Hello all,
We have two PC's and one dedicated phone line for internet dial up access.

We do not have access to T-1 or DSL.

Can we have both computers online simultaneously using a phone line
spiltter?

Thank you.
Eddy
 
I think you're confused. This is a FrontPage newsgroup.
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| Hello all,
| We have two PC's and one dedicated phone line for internet dial up access.
|
| We do not have access to T-1 or DSL.
|
| Can we have both computers online simultaneously using a phone line
| spiltter?
|
| Thank you.
| Eddy
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|
|
 
Yes, if both machines are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you could share a single connection,
but both machine must be networked together.

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I.e., NOT with a phone line splitter. With a network cable between them and
a shared connection. One of them has to have a direct connection to the
phone line.
 
Not at the same time. If you connect both computers, the only the one
that connects to the Internet can connect.

You may want to look into Internet sharing I think it's available in
windows XP and WinMe and with third party tool. Basically you have one
main computer connected with a dial up and then that computer shares the
internet by being connected to other computers.

...PC
 
We used to share dial-up Internet access. We used an Intel Home Networking
card in both systems. It worked and it wasn't too challenging to set up. I
have no idea if those cards are still available. It's been 5 years since we
did that and we no longer use dial-up. (We've since gone to cable with a
wireless router/modem.)

You mentioned you can't get DSL. Is cable or satellite an option?
 
For a single line, no since it's basically a one-to-one connection between
the computer, and the other modem. This situation would create three items
trying to fight eachother for a communication handshake. You could use
internet connection sharing and have computer b connected via ethernet to
computer a, which is conected to the internet and sharing the connection.
The only downside with this is it's extremely dog slow as both are trying to
use the same very very limited bandwidth.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
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