Routers, Macs and PCs

First off, I am sorry if this has been covered somewhere else, if it's in the wring place, and also for the lack of knowledge that I have.
I have an iMac and a Macbook (rather recent, the iMac with Snow Leopard and the Macbook with Leopard, 10.5.8+), and in the same home, there are about two other PC's, one of which is nearly always on.
Our internet is... lacking. Due to my inexperience with networks and the internet, all I can decipher from our problem is that we cannot all connect to the internet using the same router. The Wireless disconnects regularly and whenever someone turns a system on that uses the internet, everyone else gets booted off the network.
What I want to know is, If I got an Airport (of any type), will the problem be (more or less) solved?
We have tried everything we can to solve the problem, but its constantly being blamed on my poor Mac systems, so I need to find a way to solve the issue.
Thanks in advance.

Nequisan wrote:
Our internet is... lacking. Due to my inexperience with networks and the internet, all I can decipher from our problem is that we cannot all connect to the internet using the same router. The Wireless disconnects regularly and whenever someone turns a system on that uses the internet, everyone else gets booted off the network.
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
What I want to know is, If I got an Airport (of any type), will the problem be (more or less) solved?
Please describe in detail your networking equipment, including brands and model numbers for the modem and router, if these are separate devices.
Your comment that "everyone else gets booted off the network" may suggest that in certain ways you can connect more than one device to the Internet at the same time. Is this true? In general a router will support multiple users, but there seems to be at least one ISP that only allows one client at a time.

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