Setting up two home internet connections

I guess the answer is simple : use a splitter. Well may be my understadning of splitter is wrong then. I got a simple small non-powered splitter which has one entry port and 2 output ports. But i can not use 2 computers at the same time, as one of them is alwys crying for a signal !. What type of splitter do you guys use?

thank you

What exactly are you trying to do? You can have two connections through a splitter if ones DSL and the other ones ISDN/Analogue. Are you sure are talking about setting up two connections or just sharing one?

If your trying to use 2 PC's with 1 Internet connection (DSL) this is very easy if you are using the correct
equipment. First you will need a DSL router (Built-in modem is a +). they usually have a built-in switch for
up to 4 PC's in them. 2nd Configure the router to logon to your ISP. 3rd. Remove any ISP/Dial-up software
from your PCs and configure them for TCPIP networking. As long as the router is dialed-up into your ISP
you can access the internet at them same time for as many PC's as you have connected.

DN has hit it right. Thats what you have to do !!
Get a router with built in switch ( AVM Fritzbox! ) Theay are the best around.
You have WLAN and the possibility to use the VOIP function...

If you have everything else, but only one connection on the router, then you need a small hub. I have one spare if you need one. Call me to haggle !!!

I assume cheap DSL modems supplied by T-com have only 1 output port! In this case spooky is right and i need a hub. I think what i have now is a non-powered hub( a cheap plastic black object with 1 input port and 2 outputs). Dont really know what is its use then.

Wireless has been discussed i guess in another thread before and i simply gave up as the computer simply can not connect to it. (though sometimes it captures neighbour's signal)

Modems supplied by Telekom are far from cheap. They are about the best you can buy. Spooky would have been right if you read his words carefully: "if you only have one connection to the roouter[sic], then you need a small hub". It seems you don't have a router, but a modem, so it's not a hub you need, but a router.

The new router's being used now usually only have one LAN port, hence my comment. (Eg Speedport 501V etc)

You can only use a hub if one computer is always on, to really share a internet connection you need a router which directs traffic to the necessary computer, I wouldn't suptitute cables for WLAN, WLAN is conveniant but slow especially when you start putting more computers on the network. This is because the bandwidth is shared netween the number of users.

You want a Router/Switch routers do only have a few ports their sole purpose is to conect 1 network to another

I am not actually planning to make a network between computers at home. Simply want to have 2 computers to have access to internet.

I have speedsport 501V which i assume it is a router(i hope) and so the hub should resolve the problem.(i hope again).

thanks for all ideas.

I'm not sure if you are using the words switch and hub interchangably but Switches are pretty cheap, not that much more expensive than hubs, so if you are choosing go with the switch. Switches will reduce collision domains, hubs flood ports with all the data which is just like arc de triumph at 5 in the afernoon

The 501V has an integrated router. But it only has one LAN port. So you do need a hub/switch for more than one computer.
The 501V acts in effect like a server, controlling (amongst other things) access to the internet. So you do have a mini-network. Not to confuse the issue, because this all happens in the background. Internet sharing does not enter into the equation.