Rather than continuing to aimlessly wander about the dark and scary unknown portals of the internet I have decided to call upon you far more intelligent people hanging around here for information..

So I have an eMac in my room and my brother had PC in his. We have DSL on the PC, yet because of where we live we were not able to run wires to allow me to have internet access in my room. Now after gathering what little bits of info I could, I know that in order for me to gain internet access I need something to do with an aiport extreme card/wireless airport base station, yet what exactly it is I need and what I need to do is still beyond me.

Basically my question is what do I need to get/do in order to wirelessly connect my mac to our exisiting internet router thingy majig. (I apologize for my ignorance of proper jargon)

Thanks a ton for any help (and more power to ya if you can actually decode what I am trying to say)

Here's how it works.

You plug your DSL modem in as usual, with the phoneline going into it. Instead of running an ethernet cable from the DSL modem to the PC, you run the cable from the modem to a wireless router (such as an Airport Extreme Base Station, or something else that's cheaper).

Then you either wire the base station to the PC, for the PC to get its internet wired, or you get a wireless card for the PC.

On the mac, you have to install a wireless card if it doesn't have one.

The actual network is delightfully easy to set up for the Mac. PCs, as it is their nature, will have trouble joining a network of any kind, but someone will work it out.