There ARE wireless cable routers that also have 2 or more local ports on
them. So for a two computer network if the cable modem is located adjacent
to one of the computers, then only the other computer has to have a
wireless network card. This could reduce the cost some.

At 08:03 AM 5/15/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Just get a Broadband Router with 4 ports.  They can usually be found for
>under $50.  You will, however, need to run ethernet cables from the router
>to each machine (and to the cable modem of course.)  Another option would
>be to get a wireless broadband router and wireless network cards for each
>computer.  That's a little more costly though.
>
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >
> >As I don't have any experience with cable modems, how can a person best
> >"network" 2 PC's, one of which has a cable modem connection to the internet
> >and the other is basically a stand alone PC right now. The main requirement
> >is to have both machines with internet access from the single cable modem
> >connection?

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