compatibility issues?

[plthijinx]

damn if it did fix it. I.T. is going to install somethinorother on my laptop to make it run like XP or some shit next week.

in the mean time i have another question. here at the house on my desktop i'm having trouble connecting to the net of sorts. can be painfully slow (like back in the early dial-up days) or other times it's faster than you can run to the bathroom with a new case of salmonella poisoning. set-up config: there is one modem thru U-verse. i cannot connect to this modem for some damn reason. i have a linksys router hardwired to the u-verse via a patch cable. i know both work fine as i can get on the net with my laptop and paul's computer never has a problem, granted he's hard wired to the modem itself. i thought perhaps it was my old wireless net card. Zippyt and i have been gaming online with MW3 and we keep getting kicked out because i loose my connection. aggravating. anyway, my connection issues have been happening for a few weeks now and tonight i thought perhaps the old card was going bad. went to fry's and bought a new one. cisco dual band wireless-N. installed it but it couldn't sign into the u-verse. i went downstairs and unplugged the linksys router thinking maybe there was a frequency issue although one is on channel 10 and the other is on 2. still nothing. so i plugged the linksys back in and i can login to it. only problem is i still have the intermittent connection issue. any ideas? virus? i have norton IS and spybot. i know, norton sucks nowadays but it is what it is. help!