Eli5 In the days of dial up internet how would large organisations (or even homes with more than 1 computer) enable multiple computers to use the internet at once

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Eli5 In the days of dial up internet how would large organisations (or even homes with more than 1 computer) enable multiple computers to use the internet at once

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Most homes only had 1 computer that could get online; if you needed multiple computers online then your options were either have a separate phone connection for the other computer or share the internet connection through a local area network. large companies that needed to be online didn’t use dialup; they used expensive connections like ISDN or T1 which were faster than dialup but very expensive.