Computer connection question....Is it possible to connect 2 pc's to the internet in my home at the same time?

This is easily fixed by adding a wireless router to the DSL modem and then the laptop can be used even in another room in the house. You need to be sure that your monthly internet plan will accomodate your house guests needs. Your guest could also provide their own wireless prepaid mobile plan (I have one that I use when staying away from home & just plug the dongle into my laptop.) This works on the same principle as a mobile phone. Hope this helps

Yes, though I have not done that for a while, you have to first designate which machine has dial-up modem hooked and which is not. Then you need to setup rudimentary network on the two; network them whichever way you choose to do then follow the Internet Conn Sharing advice above. Or, if ICS is too hard, you can run Apache Webserver on the modem computer in proxy mode, in this mode it is not Web server but a simple proxy server, have the other machine refer a Proxy so that it knows to send Web request to the Proxy and Proxy does the talking on behave of the other machine. Apache in Proxy mode is just a step above actually telnet to a UNIX machine for Web, but it works.

yes, if you have dsl+ you will need a router, if you are on dial up, you will need to configure something called internet connection sharing.