You need to contact the ISP and ask them about one of their broadband packages and what you need to get your computer/s connected.
You'll either have a set-top box if you have their TV services, or a cable modem which is purely for your internet connection. You'll also need an ethernet card in the back of your desktop PC (this is what you'll plug the broadband cable into to connect your PC to the internet) and there should be a slot where one of these can be fitted in the back of your PC tower - there might be one already installed, you'd have to look or get someone to look for you.
ermmm you can also get a wireless router so your desktop works from that as well - I haven't done that with mine, my desktop computer is wired directly to the broadband connection and the wireless router re-routes the signal for the laptops which are both wireless enabled.
If you want the desktop AND the laptop connect wirelessly, then the broadband cable connection goes in the back of the router instead of the desktop tower.
It might be worth you taking a trip to PC World, Dixons or Maplins if you have any of those shops near to you and going in and asking them
exactly what you need Dawn.
The set-top box or cable modem will be supplied by your ISP, but the ethernet card and broadband router you'll have to buy as extras and the ethernet card will have to be fitted into your PC too.
Oh and once you've decided which ISP you're having and what broadband speed you're getting, then ask at one of those shops for the correct broadband router that is compatible with that particular ISP, cos some work better with certain ISP's than others.
*phew* ... hope that makes sense ...
