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To: Poet who wrote (27894)	6/28/2002 3:41:52 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110603

Poet, Just to muddy the water regarding sharing internet connection with a slow analog phone line: I wouldn't give up so easily. I did this for about a year before getting an ISDN connection, which also might be available in your area. The ISDN is a big improvement, especially since my usual connection speed had only been 26.4k. I found the sharing to be satisfactory even at the slow speeds. If both parties are constantly doing large downloads or playing online graphic intensive games, it won't suffice, but I doubt even a non-shared, slow analog connection would be adequate for this. Light browsing, email and instant messaging worked fine for me. Even with one user running real time applications (QCharts), the other could still browse pretty much like normal, normal being pretty slow just like before sharing at 26.4. If your connection is a standard analog 56k that actually runs in the forties, I think sharing is a viable option. At 64k ISDN (usually running at actually 60k) two users rarely notice any slow down competing for bandwidth. That's my perspective, different from Mad Dog's. Esteban

To: Poet who wrote (27894)	6/29/2002 5:37:38 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

Poet To add some info to Esteban's suggestion... practicallynetworked.com annoyances.org

To: Poet who wrote (27894)	6/29/2002 3:46:51 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110603

Poet, The other responses are correct in that it is possible to make such a shared connection work. I do a lot of music downloading, so it is hard enough for me to get text pages to load while music is downloading on the background on one PC. With two PC's it just grinds to a halt. If you and your daughter are both just browsing text or posting messages and stuff like that, it might work, though I suspect it will still be slower than you like it. For the same money as the network gear would cost you could buy a second phone line for awhile (here that is about 10 to 20 a month) and get a cheap backup ISP for the times when more than one person is online. The links that thecow posted will get you up and running if you choose the networked/one ISP route, and also have some helpful troubleshooting advice. Good luck to you.