My hubby and I are hooked up much like popcornbird described. We do not have DSL in our area, nor cable modem and satellite is way to expensive...so we're still on dialup. However, we have our computers networked together with a hub in such a way that my computer accesses the internet through my husband's computer, but that way we can both be online at the same time with only the one telephone line His computer has to be online though, for mine to be.