Got it all figured out my friend. I had never seen an icon like that either and that is why I posted in the forum. To make a long story short, I had bought a N router but it wasn't dual band and my one older laptop didn't have N capability if that makes sense. When I tried setting them up together on a home network my Acer 8943g which is 2 years old ran fine on the N router. When I added the Acer 5100 which is about 5-6 years old it would give me a proper speed from my ISP about half the time so the only thing I could think of was the older laptop wasn't configured to run properly on just an N router. If it would have been dual band I think the network would have been fine. I hope this makes sense. I took the router back and re-hooked...