No problem on the top post.  At the moment I have a laptop with wifi and
a desktop on a wire.  I'm trying to be ready for the event in which I
would put on more than 2 computers, and can't budget broadband right
now.

I'm almost totally behind the door regarding networking, so I have no
idea what you mean by "setup a main machine as the router."  I don't see
how a wifi laptop would talk to an old 486 unless it was through an
actual wifi router, which would seem (perhaps I'm wrong) would make the
486 beside the point as long as I don't have more computers (and I
won't) than the router has ports.

My question is whether it would be wasted time and/or money setting up
any of this before I actually have a broadband connection.  That is, if
the router can't connect to the internet, why have it?

Thanks

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>Sorry for top-post but just real quick are you asking if you can share
>a dialup connection between a number of PC's via a wifi network? If so,
>certainly, if you setup a main machine as the router.  This could even
>be done with an old 486 box and wouldn't even have to have a hard drive
>(could use floppy or CD) if you used Linux, such as Freesco. Jimmy  


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>> 2. I have a $8.95 a month dial-up modem connection.
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>> 3. Is there any way to cable between the modem and the network?
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