I might be getting an ASDL connection soon, and since it is really expensive here in Italy i wanted to make sure i could what i wanted to do with it before investing a huge amount of money in it. I want to share the internet between two computers. If I call the phone company they want to sell me all these special cable modems, more expensive subscribtion, a 800 dollar router.

I was wondering if it was possible to out smart the phone company and set up a network, LAN or whatever so that two computer can share an internet connection, share files, with just a regular cable modem and whatever else i need, or is going for the phone company's solution the only solution? I don't need some super fast connection to my other computer but something like 1Megabyte per second i guess.... or is that real bad? I guess I could say I know quite a lot about computer but not really expert, and I never set up a LAN or had cable or ASDL. Could some one help me or give me some advice?

thanks