You should be able to get a kit. Office Depot has one with everything you need to set up a wireless home network with instructions. I haven't tried it yet but they are out there.
As far as a service I don't know what's the best but I know that Comcast was recently being sued for sensoring it's internet access, so I would avoid them even though they boast of being the best and I think they are the biggest.
Thanks for the office store tip, hadn't thought of that (don't work in an office...).
The internet service is provided by the city, free of charge, but they are very vague about what equipment is needed. Not too concerned about censorship, its free like this forum, they can do as they please. Little concerned about snooping and marketing data, but figure mostly to use it for the giga bytes of Windows Vista updates and fixes. I don't have enough confidence in security to put personal and financial information on the WIFI connection, or even on the Vista computer...
Yeah I thought that was free. You know what? I got my updates turned off this time. I think I don't want to go down that rabbit hole again. After years of that crap I have my computers just run slower and slower and slower. Nah, my Vista works good enough that I don't want to down load so much crap that I'm not concerned with. Really.
Why do you not get a wifi router.
These have the wifi service to get onto your city's WAN, then also 4 rj45 network ports, you can connect your PC's to that via cable to share your files, so your internal network sits behind the router's firewall. RJ45 also allow you to have your router a bit further away from the PC's, and the small omni-directional antenna can be unscrewed to connect to a high gain antenna of some sort.
The router will manage the settings for getting onto the city's wifi network, so even if one PC is off, the other can have access to the net.
Most routers also have a WAN port, so if some quicker access service comes along, you have that spare WAN port to jump on that.
I'm using ZyXel for all my wifi stuff, and have used others, but find ZyXel to be rather used friendly. Security is also really good.
Just a thought
If you do not know a hell of a lot about Linux, I would stay clear initially, a lot of people have complained about getting wifi going properly, and yes, I know ten thousand people will tell me that's not true, but there are ten thousand more stating otherwise.
P.S. Good luck with that Vista box, I've heard of some irritating knacks regarding it and wifi also.
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