High Speed! Kinda...

The cable installer got here in the prescribed time. The cable modem works fine...on the computer in the back room (where we needed it placed) which is 5 years old and comparatively slow. So, good to go back there. Only problem is that the computer takes forever so on the stuff you'd use high speed for, it's actually about normal dial-up speed.

The bigger issue is that I have no idea how to make it work on my laptop (I'm sure it has something to do with my Internet Explorer settings, but I wouldn't know where to begin) or my wife's Macintosh G4. But that's just temporary since we'd have to re-do the whole thing when we go with the wireless very soon...

Little help?