wishing there was a way to....

[Shaytar]

get around this darn one connection only issue. We have two puters, one phone line, and one net connection. We can't LAN, cuz our ISP doesn't support it. We can't afford the second phone line and the second Net connection. Why isn't there an easy way around this? Why can't we have both puters connected at the same time?
I know I know... commercialism and all that, pay for the services so that they can be maintained.....
but gosh darn it, it just don't seem fair!
at $21 a month (Can. $, multiply by 1.6 to get US) plus the $30 a month Bell charges just to have a phone line -- its outrageous!

argh
ok, done venting now
JT of Shaytar

anyone else have this problem???

[Bekariso]

other way around, JT -- multiply the US by 1.6 to get $Cdn. To get $US from Cdn, muliply by two thirds, I think. :P

Reiya



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[pqwabbit]

hmmmmm hey ever have one of ya [picked up tht hpone while the otehr is talking - at first I though hey just plug that line into the computer from another jack in teh house the ohone - but thats kind of far fetched I think hehe it would totally like corrupt you connect ionad n boot you off probably if it even like worked at all - hmm sorry only way I know if ya cant lan or get a cable modem (more expensive than a second phone line but hmm I thin k if you add the cost of the phone line and the internet monthly togather you might coem close to the monthly cost of isdn!)is a second phone line

yeesh man didnt know bell was up there too!
yikes that is scary!

[meikel]

Hi,
The first step for connecting multiple PC via one phone line is to lan all these PCs. I just did so for my own PCs and it's real fun having access to all harddisks available in all machines.
The second step is to get some software that can act as a proxy-server. You need to install this on the PC having the phone-line. While this PC is connected, all other PCs can do nearly everything using the proxy-server.

We recently connected 20 PCs using one of our NT Servers over one ISDN dial-up line (that was a temporary thing as we shifted ISPs). We used a free proxy-server for that stuff. I think it's at http://www.sambar.com but there are others, too.

Greetings from Bonn, Germany
Meikel Weber
http://www.meikel.com

[MikeA]

Meikel is correct. I've got a network at home, two PC's on a Novell IPX/IP network. You can get a PROXY software package that will allow both computers to dial using one modem. (Actually all you need is IP, a Hub, and the TP cable.) Here are some sites to try:

www.tucows.com (http://www.tucows.com)
www.winfiles.com (http://www.winfiles.com) (network section)

There are lots of these software packages out there.

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[This message has been edited by MikeA (edited 12-15-98).]