Earthlink is telling you that they keep track of who is logged in and that you will pay extra to log in twice.
Gunthnp is telling you that you can network the two computers together then use one of the computers as the master internet connection and then connect to the internet from the second one thru the connection on the first one.
The other part of the question is using the telephone. You would require DSL service, which allows phone access and data access at the same time.
Your requirements then become DSL, network , and proxy server. The DSL service is available from earthlink in certain areas. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
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