As I am on a library computer typing this out, I will try the method above and see what happens as the connection in question is not my connection, but the university's wifi. I cannot do this since I have no flashdrive or floppy. I will type the results later. ------------------ UPDATE...
Between 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. my Windows 7 L755-S5153 Toshiba laptop stopped receiving packets from the connection in use. Updates have not been installed since yestarday, yet the problem seemed to have happened today in my absense. I've gone through 20+ pages of google, following just about...