# Everquest for PS2/DSL Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everquest-for-ps2-dsl-question/157951>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 27, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everquest-for-ps2-dsl-question/157951 "2003-02-27T19:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ummm.yeahh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ummm.yeahh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ummm.yeahh)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everquest-for-ps2-dsl-question/157951/1 "2003-02-27T19:08:01Z")

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I am considering getting into this game but don’t know how it works online. My TV and PS2 are downstairs but my computer is upstairs. How do I hook up my PS2 to the internet. I have a DSL line but I am not sure if I can only hook up through the line on my computer. I have these “splitters” on all my phone jacks but there is an actual box connected to my Thanks!!!

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**Author:** ![ummm.yeahh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ummm.yeahh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ummm.yeahh)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everquest-for-ps2-dsl-question/157951/2 "2003-02-27T19:09:21Z")

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(should be) …connected to my computer. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everquest-for-ps2-dsl-question/157951/3 "2003-02-27T19:16:44Z")

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Sounds like it’d be a tad complicated for you. There’s several options:

1. Wireless networking
2. One long-ass cable from the computer room to the TV.
3. Wire up the house (cables in the walls)

All of the options would involved setting up a router and possibly a switch to share the internet access from your DSL modem to the computer and the PS2.

Do you have any computer-nerd friends who could come by and give you an idea of what you’d need to do?

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everquest-for-ps2-dsl-question/157951/4 "2003-02-27T20:04:53Z")

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I got some good answers in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=157101)