Alright, I've been trying to figure out if this is possible. First, let me explain this: I currently have DSL at the house I live in now. However, in a week I will be moving to a new house. At the NEW house, it's out of area so I can not get highspeed internet (unless I use DirecWay, which I refuse to do). Now, no one will be living in my current (OLD) house for a while, though the DSL will remain active. Now what I'm trying to do is connect from my NEW house, to a computer at my OLD house to share the DSL connection. I want to be able to use the DSL connection at my new house. So I pretty much want to bootleg my own DSL connection, hehe (since there's no DSL services in my NEW house\location). What I'm wanting to know is: is there a way for me to connect directly from a PC at my NEW house, to a PC at my OLD house? You may say VPN, but that would require me getting another ISP for my new location, which I dont want to have to do. Now I was thinking that is I used modems, I could dial directly to the OLD house's PC. However, the problem I would get from this is that the connection speed would only be 56k (because that's all a 56k modem can handle) right? Is there absolutely no way for me to directly connect the PC's to share that one connection, while allowing me to use it's full speed (and not limited to 56k)? ANY suggestion would be appreciated, no matter if it would require purchasing new hardware, or if it's difficult. I'm a smart guy when it comes to PC's so if something like this is actually possible, then I can make it work. :)

If the new house is further away than 100 meters then no, you can't. The only way you could make such a thing work without a broadband connection at your new house is to pay to have private line laid between you old house and your new house and that would cost a small fortune. If the new house has line of sight with the old house and is not to far away you might just conceivably set up a wireless connection if you use directional antennas. Stuart

do you have a Ham Radio ,, atennae at both places .. ,,, ??? I know there is a Wireless telephone that is used by FCC licensed Ham Radio operators and you could , set up a Vpn that way/// Not sure of the transfer speeds you would get ,, Went looking for a certian wireless internet connection set up ,, I know this exists!!! there is a Base , the cost was around 2500 dollars,, range extenders that could be place upon street lamps or telephone poles that would have to be placed approx every quarter mile... I think those were about a 1000 apiece,,, and ,Well So far couldn't refind the pages and or links,, Well Have fun Huh!! in your search... MSI 845e mb 768 mb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

Short answer.... No. if you want your highspeed. You have two feasiable options.. One: pay for the connection that you dont like. Two: Talk to the phone company and see if you can get a ISDN Prime(DS1 or DS2) or T1 installed at your location.. A typical T1 install will cost you around 500 dollars and about 250 a month for the service.. Unless you plan on running a business out of your home, this really isn't a feasible option. I suggest you bite the bullet and pay for the service you dont like. ------ Get FireFox You'll be happy you did.

Yeah, I figured it was going to be a pain in the buttocks to be able to get something like this to work. I pretty much already knew this was not possible, but wanted to just make sure, in case there was a method that I didn't know about. However, I found out that Megapath Networks ( http://www.megapath.net ) actually does provide coverage for my new location. However, since Megapath provides internet access for business (not residential), than I have a feeling it's going to cost me a pretty hefty amount of cash, mainly since they seem to only offer static IP addresses. Anyone else use Megpath Networks? or even know at least something about it? They seem to be the only ones who provide coverage for my area, but they don't list the prices on their website. I guess I'll have to wait until I'm actually at my new location and contact them about their services and how much it would cost for internet access to ny area. I just hope DirecWay is not my only option, because there's too many things wrong with it (high latency, limited bandwidth usage, etc).