Getting the internet on a PC laptop on an Apple Wireless Network

I use an Apple network based out of an Airport Extreme. Connected to the internet over the network are two Apple computers, an iPhone, and a Sirius. What I cannot connect is my old Toshiba PC. It connects to the network, but I can not bring up the internet on it. Any suggestions?

Chris,
Thanks for the tip about the Firefox Sync feature. A friend and I managed to use the Sync feature to "transfer" the folders of Bookmarked website addresses from the Dell to the iMac. We found that shutting off and rebooting the receiving iMac computer was necessary for all the folders to transfer over. Also, the entire process would have gone more smoothly had we had separate internet connections for the two computers, but we managed to shift our single internet connection between the computers as the Sync process progressed through its steps. Definitely a learning process.
Thanks,
Charlie

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