DSL line, two computers?

My home office is in a separate building 100 feet from the house. Phone lines/DSL are in both buildings. Have router, but not really practical stringing ethernet wire through the trees and under the lawn mowers. Wireless? The main computer does not have any more IDE slots. I will have to pull something out to put a wirless card in. Question: Can two computers share one DSL line without using routers or wireless?

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Not without networking. You can however buy a wireless router and a hi gain wifi antenna for your system. You can also purchase a signal extender but all this will cost you some fat cash! Wireless is more vulnerable to attack also. You also might get by if the 2 PCs are in line of site with each other and may not need the signal booster. There are also directional wifi antennae on the market. If it was me, I would be stringing the cable!

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If you can connect them both to the input of your modem. But that is unlikely as most modems just have one input and that is why you use routers.

Ron
PS You don't have to use a IDE port, just use a usb port
Yes, you can share a DSL line w/o any router or wireless network. Just connect your 2 computers using a crossover utp cat5e cable through the ethernet ports and setup a LAN, and have one of your computer (pc1) to act as a gateway to connect to the DSL modem. In that way, the computer that does not connect directly to the modem (pc2) can access the internet through pc1. However, the main drawback is that pc1 has to be on while you access the internet using pc2.