Michael Cash wrote:
> 
> Now...if I can just find a place to PUT the thing and figure out how
> to network it with the old one (the wife and kids inherit it) and get
> them to both share a single ADSL connection, all my problems will be
> solved.
> 

This post is a bit late but here's the cheapest way to do what you want:

Buy a 4-port hub (or whatever's on sale) and some ethernet cables.  I think
the latest hubs are all auto-crossover so you won't need a crossover
ethernet cable.  If it's not auto-crossover, you'll need one crossover cable
connect your computer to the hub.

Buy another ethernet card.

Install ethernet card.  On the ethernet card that you use to connect to
the internet, click on the tab somewhere that says "share this connection"
(or something similar).

Windows will tell you that it's setting your other ethernet card to some
wild IP address (probably 192.168.0.1).  If this is the same address that
your original ethernet card is set to route to (from dos prompt type
"route print" and see what the last line "default gateway" is set to),
you will need to change the 192.168.0.1 to something else, like 192.168.1.1.

Then you just plug the hub to to the second ethernet cards, and the wife
and kids' computers to the hub.  Set their computers to use DHCP and you're
done.

Oh, do a quick look on support.microsoft.com and see the registry setting
you need to add... do a search for "IP routing".  You need to have IP routing
set for this to all work.

Hope this helps.

-Jim