i have 2 computers and a second phone line. i would like to be able to have both online at once. right now if one is online the other one will not dial on. is there a way to connect both without getting networking cards and linking them together?

I assume, that what you are saying is that they are using different phone lines ? If not.... then
No, if they are using the same line, then only one can use the internet at a time, unless you network them together.

However if yes...
And that they are using the same dial-up account with your isp ?

If that is the case then it sounds like your isp is only allowing one connection to that account, so just use a different isp/account on the second machine using the second line.

I have to say though that networking the 2 machines is not expensive, 2 NIC cards at less than £10 each, and a corssover cable and your done !

Hope that helps, anything your not sure of, post back

thanks for the info. i just looked in the faq section and found that this question has already been asked before and there is some tutorials. i should have looked there first. they will be using the same phone line so your advice would be to network them together?

definately, i have done that here with my desktop and my laptop, and it works great, there are tutorials on connection sharing all over the web, just search on google.

HTH

thanks again. i knew this was the place to come for answers as i frequent the ps2 section here too