Powerbook and pc question

I am moving into a new place with a friend. We are getting comcast and I have a powerbook and airport extreme basestation and he has a PC. We are getting comcast and vonage. I am wondering will it be hard to hook this all up. I mean will I need a router? I am just confused because, i've never hookup a pc and mac before to the same internet connection. Plus I have wireless and he does not so not sure about my airport basestation.

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No problems connecting the everything together. The airport has an ethernet port in the back and a wan port.
The cable modem goes into the back of the wan port. Vonage into the ethernet. the vonage router has a couple of ports to make up for the one it is taking up.
The PC will plug into the back of the vonage router and the PB wirelessly to the Airport. Should the Vonage router not have a spare port - they may have changed things - then in the worst case you just need a 4 port wired router - they are pretty cheap, Netgear Belkin etc - I find Circuit CIty has them quite cheap.
That's it. Both machines will access the internet perfectly happily as the internet is platform independent - doesn't matter if you have a PC or a Mac. I'm wired up almost the same way at home - only diff is that I have a Belkin wireless router 4 ports ($10 from C City!) plugged into a linksys vonage router into which the cable modem also plugs - this works fine for me. The beauty of routers is that you can daisy chain them - that's networking!
I hope that helps.
Best of luck
I just realised this was posted in two areas - not the best thing to do unless you don't get a response to an initial inquiry - just clogs the whole system and complicates searches.
As well as diluting the knowledge base.

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