hi, i have a reliance fwp phone which i use to connect to the internet. I want to share this connection with two of my friends so that all of us get equal bandwidth if accessing at the same time. We have thought of two possible alternatives

1. the computer to which the phone is connected to have two Ethernet card with a p2p connection to the other two. -are there any issues regarding equal bandwidth division with this approach and secondly will a simple proxy software do or do we need some additional software to make this approach work. I am currently using Fedora core 2 but if there is any other distribution more suited to this then switching over to that is not a problem.

2. have a switch or hub and use that to share the connection. The only problem with this is the additional cost as where i live(vellore, tn) 4 port switches are difficult to get and an 8 port one cost around 800-900 i guess so that means an additional 300 bucks per person.

I would really appreciate any feed backs on this or suggestions on any other alternatives, thank you, puneet