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I have one wireless usb thingy, but I have two desktop computers that I want to go online with.

Is it possible to connect a router to the one computer online, and then hook up the other through this router?

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Question isn't clear: do you want to connect two computers wirelessly to one router? Or directly connect one computer to the router while the other is wireless? – Richard Feb 28 '10 at 10:18
I want to get both computers online, but I only have one wireless antenna, so I'm wandering if the other computer can share this connection through a router. – erikric Feb 28 '10 at 10:43
Network shares are drives on one computer that can be accessed on another computer. That's why I removed that tag. – Kevin M Feb 28 '10 at 13:53
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Yes, so long as the PCs are networked.

The computer with the active connection must be configured for "Internet Sharing", this is easily achievable under Windows, so other operating systems would likely have a reasonable way to also achieve this.

You have several options of connecting the machines to share the internet connection;

  1. Go through a router
  2. Connect via a simple switch
  3. Or you can directly connect the machines via a network cross over cable.
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