So your father is using some kind of mobilephone internet
connection, but specially designed to not be taken with you..
...so very strange! But I guess their pricemodel makes it cheaper
than just connect a 3G-mobilephone to the computer with usb?

Don't they have affordable real broadband there at australia?

to limit pear2pear to 32 kbit/s I guess they spy on all traffic
to detect if the user is using bittorrent, dc++ or some of the
twenty other most popular filesharing programs... but they
can't on the new encrypted ones I hope...
(or do they just mean that it is 32kbit/s OUT, just like the
old modems had 56kbit/s but only 33kbit/s OUT?)

Anyway, with all that radio I guess using wifi too won't make
a big difference... it is probably already turned on.
cheaper of course would be to use the neighbours..... ;-)

just a question, if your dads second computer don't have any
network jack at all, it must be very old, right? (I mean network
have been built in on almost all motherboards, even in prebuilt
computers, since pentium2 at least) and he is running winXP
on that?

must be very slow.....


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2)computer number 2, has what looks like a modem card installed,but we
figure that is no good to us at all right now.

save the modem in case you need to do some filesharing, since it
is faster :-D
(and it is always nice to have a backup solution)

3)no network cards are installed on both... which i guess means dad has
to buy two,

with your original idea that would have been true yes. perhaps we
should give up that idea....

4)are network cards cheap?

yes. they cost in my country 18AU$ (hastly converted to australian dollars
from my currency) a switch is allso cheap. a swithc with 5 jacks costs 28
AU$
here. compare to a network cable: 8 AU$ for 1 meter, 11 AU$ for 2 meter,
an usb wireless plug costs 40 AU$ here
This is of course not what they cost at your country, and it can be very
different depending on what shop or webshop you buy from, and witch model.

if dad buys some cards, does he have to instal drivers and such?

yes. drivers for the network cards.

i will leave it here for now, and hopefully get a reply before bedtime.

nightynight now :-)