I was wondering if this would work. I have 2 PC's, both with Win98SE, hooked up in a dial-up network through a Linksys router for printer sharing only. All hooked up with Cat5 cabling.
We can dial out, one or the other on phone line "B", or both at the same time, using Phone line "A" and "B".
We need a public IP address, for my wife only, as she has remote Sabre software for her travel business. (CANNOT have a firewall).
The upshot is, dial-up stinks! I want to go back to Cable, but without a router, which would bring back the firewall business.
Now, Toshiba has a model with both USB and ethernet
connections, where they say you can hook up 2 PC's at the
same time, through the different connections.
With the Modem at my machine, I could hook me up to the USB
and run my wife's PC on ethernet. (She's 60' away in another room).
Does this sound feasible? Would my machines suffer because of the different connections?
With this hook-up, I will most likely lose my printer sharing, however I could get a second printer for her use.
Comments please. . Thanks

We can dial out, one or the other on phone line "B", or both at the same time, using Phone line "A" and "B".
We need a public IP address, for my wife only, as she has remote Sabre software for her travel business. (CANNOT have a firewall).
The upshot is, dial-up stinks! I want to go back to Cable, but without a router, which would bring back the firewall business.
Now, Toshiba has a model with both USB and ethernet
connections, where they say you can hook up 2 PC's at the
same time, through the different connections.
With the Modem at my machine, I could hook me up to the USB
and run my wife's PC on ethernet. (She's 60' away in another room).
Does this sound feasible? Would my machines suffer because of the different connections?
With this hook-up, I will most likely lose my printer sharing, however I could get a second printer for her use.
Comments please. . Thanks