[chuckles]

Everything sounds good except the null modem cable would be 40 miles long. I need to figure out how to dial their modem and have it answer just like in hyperterm, but then have their browser look to that connection for the web. The vanilla setup is THEY call me to setup their connection, but that involves long distance. Once I get a handshake from their modem and everything is talking, the browser can't use that conection unless Dial up networking set it up. If I use hyperterm, or some other com program, it looks busy to the browser.

[HAL9000]

I think the starting point is to install the Windows 98 Dialup Server on their machine, which should allow you to dial to them. Apparently, it's on the Win98 installation disc.

After that, you'll have to figure out if Windows XP has routing tables that you can configure to allow them to share your DSL connection.

The key thing is to use PPP protocol for the dialup connection, not DHCP.