connecting two computers up through phone line in wall?

Question

Is it true that you can use the normal phone line that already exists in your home to connect two computers? How?

Answer 1

probably not unless you upgraded to home networking. Generally speaking home phone wiring is a 4 conductor wire. Red, Green, Yellow, Black. You use to wires per line therefore most home could have up to 2 different lines and use the same wire. I'm assuming when you say connect you mean like as a network and not just to share the same line to dial in to the internet. If you have high speed and are connecting to a router or something you will need a 8-conductor Cat-5 wire. It has a wider plug on the end although the connector does look similar to a phone cord plug

Answer 2

There's probably no technical reason, but certainly a management problem. You'd always have to make sure the line is available when you need it. If it's also the house phone for talking, interruptions from picking up the receiver could corrupt data transmission.
-MM

Answer 3

This is possible if you have two different phone lines. You stick a modem in each computer. You then configure Windows Networking to allow each computer access to the other

Answer 4

Ethernet is not the same thing as a phone. You would need a modem in your laptop to hook up the phone line, not an ethernet card. If you have an external modem, it would possibly connect to your laptop through the ethernet port. The ethernet port is a data connection, not for connecting to POTS.