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Hi guys, I'm new -- fell free to taunt me about being a newbie I've got a serious question though. I'm upgrading my main computer to an Athlon 1ghz machine and am planning on networking it to my current computer (I run Win 98 Second Edition on both currently). We also have a 640k DSL through Qwest that runs through our phone line. I was wondering if there's a way to set up the network so that both computers can use the DSL connection at the same time (yes I realize that they would run at half speed). If that isn't actually possible, would it be possible to set the network up so I would have both computers able to use the DSL but only 1 at a time? I'd prefer not having to buy 2 DSL modems too. Would this require a third computer that would stay connected and the other 2 would leech off that connection or something? I'm really not sure how this whole thing would work. I'd appreciate responses as this is pretty urgent and I'm quite excited about it Thanks *so* much. -Chris

Thanks for all your help. Vampyre, that would be great. I'll post back in this thread when I get my new computer completely built. Might be a week or two still. If I can't get back to you, thanks for the offer Thanks again for all the help. -Chris

Thanks for the help, I'll check it out. -Chris

Yeah, the Compaq seems pretty decent for a router, the only problem is I know NOTHING about Linux Just a few basic commands and the such. I do own a copy of Redhat 6.1, could anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or even explain how I would go about setting it up as a DHCP Server? I'm completely lost with anything like that. I have no experience with anything Linux. And crazy, could you expand on that thought about 4 nics? I am not understanding why I would need 2 for the Router... Thanks!!

Crazy, sorry, you must have hit the submit button before me So what you're basically saying is throw together an older computer (yes, that is an option for me ) and hook the dsl directly to that. Have a NIC in that and then have that run into the hub. Then have the other 2 computers I want to both have simulaneous access to the DSL have NICs and run those into the hub too? That definately sounds doable, especially since we have an old Compaq running Win 95 lying around -- Should that work? Thanks so much, again -Chris

Thanks for your quick response! Yes, sadly it does happen to be an internal DSL modem, so I'll probably have to opt for your first choice. It'd be much nicer though if I could somehow use the internal modem for the second method you listed . Anyone have any other ideas? And thanks so much again for your quick response