Hi can someone please help me out in detail as i have asked before but due to my lack of technical knowledge i am still stuck. I have my pc upstairs and my dads downstairs. i have one asdl usb modem (freeserve)which i want to use to connect both pcs to broadband via the phone line. I just dont get how to do it. what do i need to buy to make them both connect. what cards do we need in the computers? I have usb and ethernet card in mine. my dads has neither. i just dont get what to do.

you will need the following hardware to connect both PC's to internet Broadband router (£33 roughly) 2 NIC's (network interface card) (£5 each 2 Wires (£4 depending on size) with the above you can set you PC's up for internet access Regards, Jamie McCoy

The first problem is that a USB DSL modem can't be used to connect more than one PC to the internet. In order to connect more than one you need a cable/dsl 4 port router, network card (for your dads pc) and CAT5 cables to connect all of them. You connect the dsl modem using a CAT5 cable to the router and then connect CAT5 cables to the two pc's using one of the LAN ports. If the one pc is too hard to run a cable to (running wires through walls and ceilings) you end up thinking of connecting the remote system using wireless. One of the pc's has to be where the dsl modem is located. That is also where the router goes. A long cable then connects the other system. Richard Lyon