Bev,
The cable company gives you a box that you hook the computer into. It is lightning fast on line. We have another box that makes my laptop wireless on the home network.
Listen ... HP.com has many free classes that are on this subject and more. Some of the tuts are can be read right away and are not classes. It will give you tons of information about it. ps) You don't have to have a hp to go there and use the classes.