The service in who's name the account is in, follows the phone line and you can only 
have one service per line.  In other words, if you are paying for DSL service on 
your line, anyone connecting to your modem/router, uses your service.  Anytime you 
use your machine on someone elses phone line, you are on their service.  For most 
ISP setups however, you will still be able to access your POP email through that 
line or your own, if your ISP has a typical POP email setup, and most give you multiple 
email accounts.  Multiple email accounts on one service account should not be confused 
with the service account in who's name the telephone service is in.  In other words, 
there may be two seperate users on your line and have seperate email accounts, but 
one person is usually the primary account holder unless the service is in both names, 
and then one of the email accounts is still considered primary in most cases.  It 
is still considered one service (since you can only have one modem on a line) but 
since most ISP's provide multiple email addresses, you can have more than one email 
account per service account.  Does that make sense??  Either way, when you go to 
another house and connect to their modem/router, you are on their service.  You can't 
be on yours, but you can still access your POP email (in most cases).







On Sunday, April 8, 2007 at 6:10 am, Nikita wrote:

>A friend and I have networked computers, both on ADSL with the same phone company 

>- seperate accounts.

>

>My PC is the host. Up until now we have only used the computers at my house. Today, 

>at her house, I plugged her modem in. XP installed her modem and I was on the internet 

>straight away...

>

>Now, I know ADSL modems retain information. So, how do I tell if I'm logged in to 

>her ADSL account or if I'm logged into mine (at her house).

>

>Any suggestions? 

• Reply or follow-up to this message

• Search this forum
• Start a new thread on a different subject

• Report abuse of the forum